Sentences with phrase «for bailout money»

Michele Bachmann, who is running for president of the United States, lambastes the government in speech after speech, but she and her husband applied for government grants and lobbied for bailout money for her constituency.

Markets have been increasingly volatile since Greek voters last weekend rejected political parties that imposed the deep spending cuts required in exchange for bailout money to keep the country from bankruptcy.

Not exact matches

Speckhard argues that Europe could, for far less money, loosen some of the terms of Greece's bailout and give the Greek people time to realize that Syrzia can't deliver on its populist promises and remain a member of the Euro currency.

Macron has said he hopes to pool liability for various kinds of debt: a completed banking union would ensure bailout costs for individual financial institutions would be distributed across the continent rather than borne by individual countries, and the so - called Eurobonds would allow national governments to borrow money against a joint continental credit rating.

In early April, broadcast media were blanketed with ads from the dark money Center for Individual Freedom urging viewers to call Congress and oppose the Puerto Rico «bailout.»

The eurozone's central bankers, as well as some of the less charitable politicians in the region's lending countries, say Spain must first request that money from the central bailout funds and agree to stringent conditions in return for support.

But those average scores actually hide impressive improvements, he adds, because of how low public opinion sank — particularly for Chrysler and GM, which both took government bailout money.

Maybe what Jamie Dimon is hoping for is that the government will come down on cryptocurrencies and save him — just like they did in 2008 when his company took $ 12billion in US taxpayer bailout money.

The tense negotiations over Greece's debt come as the Greek government struggles to find a consensus to pass the budget reforms demanded by its so - called troika of lenders — the European Central Bank, European Union and International Monetary Fund — in exchange for releasing the next installment of bailout money, a 30 billion euro ($ 38.3 billion) payout scheduled to be released in March.

As Philip Stoddard, mayor of South Miami, said of the prospect of bailouts for homeowners who wait too long to sell: «There isn't enough money.»

I feel like Europe could raise enough money for a new Greek bailout by selling tickets to all these meetings where they sit around and insult the Greeks.

Spain, the official said, would prefer a second option available under the new bailout arrangements: It would apply for a credit line, a request that the ESM make money available only if needed.

The banks should be nationalized, at least temporarily, and every person and institution involved (otherwise known as the elite banksters and politicians who served and supported the government and «quasi» government decisions) in each of the bailouts and heists of the taxpayer's (i.e. the «common» mans) money, should be divested of their personal assets and earnings and put in a stockade for public viewing, smack dab in the middle of Wall Street, to be pelted with rotten vegetables.

Then the housing crash happened and the Fed cut interest rates to actual zero, keep them there for 7 years and does something like 3 trillion dollars in quantitative easing, which is basically printing money and then using that new money to buy assets from the banks which is the kind of backdoor bailout essentially the Fed doing a kind of cash for trash for the Wall Street banks.

Yet the recent fiscal stimulus law restricted H - 1B visas, granted to foreigners with advanced education and skills, for employees of firms that receive TARP (bank bailout) money.

The court - validated Chairman of Trade Union Congress (TUC), Kolawole Olaiya, urged the EFCC to probe the whereabouts of the N9.6 billion bailout money released for the payment of workers, pensioners and past political office holders.

If the 13 - month - old del Lago Resort & Casino can't make enough money to stay afloat, a national gaming expert says, there's a solution for that: Bankruptcy, not a taxpayer - funded bailout.

My priorities will be to slash wasteful federal spending, set our nation on a path to a balanced budget, end bailouts for bad business decisions, take leftover money from the Obama stimulus package to pay down the deficit, and repeal Obamacare.

The county comptroller is calling that money a «state bailout,» but the county executive said the payment is routine for concerts held during the New York State Fair.

• To have the NY GOP nominate for governor a Wall Street Lobbyist who received a $ 1.3 million bonus paid for with taxpayer bailout money... priceless

Today, the ethics panel charged her with breaking House rules by using her position to get federal bailout money for a bank with ties to her husband.

«When the Democrats controlled everything, the New York City Democrats, there were bailouts for the MTA, the Metropolitan Transportation Association, and no money for upstate roads and bridges — and that was the tradeoff every year before that.

Cuomo is proposing a $ 28 million bailout for the Yonkers school district in Westchester County, using money from a new $ 100 million fund to help failing schools in upstate.

For a second year in a row, the PSC has deeply slashed the amount of renewable energy that utility companies are forced to buy under Cuomo's Clean Energy Standard, casting further doubt on the governor's goal of having renewables supply 50 percent of the state's electricity by 2030, while reinforcing the program's status as primarily a bailout for money - losing upstate nuclear planFor a second year in a row, the PSC has deeply slashed the amount of renewable energy that utility companies are forced to buy under Cuomo's Clean Energy Standard, casting further doubt on the governor's goal of having renewables supply 50 percent of the state's electricity by 2030, while reinforcing the program's status as primarily a bailout for money - losing upstate nuclear planfor money - losing upstate nuclear plants.

The city of Albany is getting support for a $ 12.5 million bailout from Gov. Cuomo after he initially didn't include the money in his budget proposal.

If you're an average person whose tax money helped pay for the Wall Street bailout, what's going on in New York and New Jersey could really make you angry.

What Albany is doing is pushing this money into their general fund every year, and as such, it's a bailout for Albany.»

Tory MPs have reacted with concern to the terms of a bailout of Cyprus» banks which will see up to 9.9 % of depositors» money confiscated as part - payment for the rescue.

YONKERS, N.Y. (AP)-- Gov. Andrew Cuomo is proposing a $ 28 million bailout for the Yonkers school district in Westchester County, using money from a new $ 100 million fund to help failing schools in Upstate New York.

Osborne said there was no money for tax cuts weeks before a bailout was devised.

When the economy turns south, school districts do not cut the fat but push for new revenue sources: more state aid, money from gamblers, fees for services, and now a federal bailout.

CHICAGO — Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner said on Monday he intends to block money earmarked for Chicago Public Schools» (CPS) teacher pensions under recent legislation because he feels it is too much of a «bailout» for a badly managed system.

The film offers more in the way of storytelling and explaining than a clear path forward — but urged the kind of political will that found money for three concurrent wars, the bailout of investment banks, or the project that sent Americans to the moon.

Seems like only yesterday, but it was eight years ago, when politicians came to a very dismal Detroit show following the federal government's bailout of GM and Chrysler (and federal Energy department money for a Ford green car effort).

Even though GMAC Bank has been offering rates that are significantly higher than its peers for a long time, the new Ally Bank can't keep doing the same while receiving government bailout money.

Last week, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives revealed that Canadian banks got as much as $ 114 billion dollars in secret government bailout money.

Will they just take out loads of money in college and cross their fingers for a bailout?

The dividend rate the companies were required to pay in the bailout, for example, was 10 percent — twice that required of the banks receiving money under the $ 700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program.

Everything is too expensive, unless there are powerful people pushing hard for the money to be spent (think of the war in Iraq and the bailout of financial system, for instance.)

If automakers are going to get another bailout at our expense, the least we can demand is that we get something for our money.

«She's pushed for transparency in the Fed, is openly furious about the misuse of bailout money, and seems to take personally the chicanery that credit card companies and banks use to game the suckers out there,» Taibbi argues.

The current terms of their bailouts require them to turn over virtually all profits to the Treasury, and the money doesn't count as repayment for the government's aid.

Obama officials argued that the profit sweep compensates the government for its support and that the declining capital buffer wasn't an issue, since the companies still have about $ 259 billion in available bailout money to draw from Treasury if needed.

The program is run by the California Housing Finance Agency and uses money that was reserved for the 2008 Wall Street bailout.