A case in point is the Treasury Department's press release touting its decision to permit «10 of the largest U.S. financial institutions» to begin repaying $ 68 billion
in federal bailout money.
While he hasn't disclosed all his finances, Lazio confirmed that in 2008 and 2009 - a period in which the firm accepted $ 25 billion
in federal bailout money - he earned a total of $ 2.1 million in salary and bonuses.
The bank received over $ 12 million
in a federal bailout.
Not exact matches
With the help of government
bailouts and
Federal Reserve liquidity efforts, nonfinancial companies have amassed $ 1.8 trillion
in cash that at some point will need to be spent.
And
in an era of spectacular business crashes and
federal bailouts, it still stands as a valuable cautionary tale that must be heeded.»
Some researchers warn a catastrophic cyber event triggering thousands of policy holders to file claims simultaneously could lead to insurers going bankrupt, like
in 1992 after Hurricane Andrew, or require a
federal bailout like
in 2008.
That stellar performance was a remarkable feat considering the government - sponsored mortgage company was still repaying its
federal bailout from the recession, only settling its tab
in 2014 — and the stock's rise was mostly due to the fact that the shares had begun 2013 trading for mere pennies.
Michigan Governor Rick Snyder told CBS» «Face the Nation» the city's problems had been 60 years
in the making and he saw no prospect of a
federal or state
bailout.
The financial crisis has been so devastating for auto manufacturers that management teams
in both Canada and the U.S. have approached
federal governments for
bailouts.
Protecting jobs
in Canada should be the highest priority for the
federal government when discussing a potential
bailout package with automotive manufacturers, according a web poll of 115 Canadian CEOs conducted by COMPAS Inc..
In mid-December, it announced that it was considering applying for a
federal bailout, then a few days later sacked its top executives.
Excessive government debt will stifle economic growth regardless of whether its stashed
in local or central government balance sheets and if a province's fiscal situation should become unsustainable — although that's not
in the cards
in the near future — it'll likely be up to
federal government to foot the bill for a
bailout.
However, a budget deficit that takes the form of transfer payments to banks, as
in the case of the post-September 2008 bank
bailout, the
Federal Reserve's $ 2 trillion
in cash - for - trash financial swaps and the $ 700 billion QE2 credit creation by the
Federal Reserve to lend to banks at 0.25 % interest
in 2011, has a different effect from deficits that reflect social spending programs, Social Security and Medicare, public infrastructure investment or the purchase of other goods and services.
Though on a smaller scale and
in a subtler manner, it has
in many ways taken a page from the United States
Federal Reserve's playbook for the 2008 financial crisis, which has been roundly criticized
in Europe as a reckless
bailout that risks setting off uncontrolled inflation.
In this op - ed, Environmental Defense Fund's Dick Munson explains how FirstEnergy's
federal bailout request poses a serious threat to competitive, clean energy, and why FirstEnergy's attempts to block the sun and stop the wind present an existential threat.
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP)-- Four former executives for the only financial institution to be criminally charged
in connection with the
federal bank
bailout program were convicted Thursday of fraud and conspiracy charges.
The banks figure to put up an epic battle because the stakes are so large and no
federal bailout of big banks seems likely
in this political climate.
Four former executives for the only financial institution to be criminally charged
in connection with the
federal bank
bailout program have been convicted on fraud and conspiracy charges.
As such, facing a massive and immediate liquidity crisis, they would be
in more need of a
federal bailout than before the bankruptcy legislation was seriously mooted.
Promptly after, the hedge fund would lose $ 4.6 billion
in four months
in the aftermath of the Asian financial crisis, requiring a
bailout from the
Federal Reserve and various banks.
«All of our plans on disaster recovery are premised with the
federal government coming
in with a big chunk of short - term FEMA money and then a big chunk of long - term
bailout money,» said Edward Richards, director of the Louisiana State University Climate Change Law and Policy Project.
During that time, Paine and his crew captured the ups and downs of electric vehicles» development amid the Great Recession — when GM went bankrupt and its executives made the blunder of flying to Washington, D.C.,
in private jets to seek
federal bailout money; when Tesla Motors almost missed payroll, having built only 100 cars and spent $ 100 million; and when Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn was grilled by the press about the $ 6 billion gamble he was taking on the Leaf.
Each of those four banks also have an outsized presence on Wall Street; each of them received taxpayer
bailouts during the 2008 crash; each received secret, below - market interest rate loans from the
Federal Reserve during the crisis; and three of them (JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Citibank) are currently holding tens of trillions of dollars
in derivatives within the insured banking subsidiary — meaning there would be a forced taxpayer
bailout if the derivatives blew up the bank.
The Tea Party surge
in 2010 clarified that a
federal bailout of Puerto Rico was politically untenable, and that the risk of default was very real.
Trump can't do much about the $ 75 billion the government owes Wall Street creditors on his own; it's possible that the
federal government could pay off some of it, but a massive
bailout won't go over well
in Congress.
I've detailed some of these concerns
in the 2/16/2010 comment The
Federal Reserve's Exit Strategy: Unlegislated
Bailout of Fannie and Freddie.
Geithner's history as New York
Federal Reserve Chair, co-architect of the $ 700 billion
bailout, and having a background
in the International Monetary Fund means he has had a more important role than many.
Mitt Romney has gotten more corporate welfare from the
federal gov» t for his
bailouts and who knows what else, than the average person would get
in a lifetime.
In a letter to Congress on Tuesday, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo confirmed that AIG paid 73 employees bonuses of more than $ 1 million each this year after it received
federal bailout money.
-- That David Harmer of California received $ 160,000
in bonus and severance pay from a firm that got a
federal bailout.
And this
in spite of the
bailout packages paid to some of the states by the
Federal Government.
(CNN)- The Democratic Senatorial campaign committee is out Saturday with a new attack ad that paints senior Missouri Rep. Roy Blunt as a symbol of Washington insider politics and condemns the Senate candidate for voting for the
federal government's massive
bailout of the financial industry
in 2008.
But I'm sure their irresponsible behavior will be rewared by the rest of the US taxpayers
in the form of a
federal bailout.
There's no big bombshell
in the report, which highlights — for example — the number of entities associated with the committee that received
federal bailout cash from TARP (13), and the amount of campaign cash contributed from individuals and corporations involved
in CSNY to Cuomo during the campaign ($ 1.8 million).
The state government had summoned the labour leaders
in the state following
Federal Government's recent
bailout, directing them to suspend the strike since the FG had rescued the state and that
in no distant time, fund would be available for salaries.
You've also missed the point of the story — that the entire state, including the republican governor and the entire republican delegation
in the state capitol, is waiting with baited breath for the
bailout since we're nearly $ 2b
in the hole and the only way out anyway can see is
federal bailout dollars.
«Yet those governments were the brains behind
bailout fund that you have collected, they did the projects that
Federal government paid for
in your time.
Jimmy Vielkind has reported that Lazio was paid a $ 325,000 salary and $ 1.3 million bonus for his work for J.P. Morgan
in 2008 — the same year the firm received
federal TARP
bailout cash, which it later paid back.
«Based on the findings and observations enumerated
in paragraph (5)- (viii) as well as series of facts and figures available to this Honurable House, the sum of N34, 988,990,000.00, which was approved and released as
bailout loan to the State Government of Osun by the
Federal Government of Nigeria
in the year 2015, was judiciously utilized.»
While the party attributed the suicide to the insincerity of the governor
in the application of the two tranches of
bailout approved by the
Federal Government to pay workers» salaries, Fayose said the pains caused by the economic recession of President Muhammadu Buhari's administration was responsible for the civil servants death.
«The last
bailout of N8.8 bn he collected, Fayose fixed N5.3 bn of this money
in Skye Bank so that he can benefit from the interest that will accrue on the deposit while the remaining N3.2 bn is
in the JAC Account, even as he has refused to pay the beneficiaries of the
bailout as approved by the
Federal Government.»
The All Progressives Congress, APC,
in Ekiti State, has called on the state governor, Ayodele Fayose, to stop trying to avoid the scrutiny of the Senate Committee on Local Governments
in the disbursement of the
bailout cash which the
Federal Government approved for the state.
In May, a
federal appeals court said that Greenberg's Starr International Co, a big AIG shareholder, had no legal right to challenge the
bailout.
«As the 2nd most conservative member of the New York State Assembly
in rankings by the New York State Conservative Party and the # 1 Legislator
in scoring by Unshackle Upstate, a New York reform organization, I know we need to slash
federal spending, balance the budget, end the
bailouts, take leftover money from the Obama stimulus package to pay down the deficit and support repealing Obamacare.
But candidates may have to revise their ambitions and spending plans
in the wake of the $ 700 - billion
federal fiscal
bailout, which promises to put a massive dent
in taxpayers» pocketbooks.
In its Pledge to America, the incoming Republican leadership of the House of Representatives has vowed to cut
federal spending to the levels it stood at before President Barack Obama's economic stimulus measures and the bank
bailout.
In its «pledge to America ``, the incoming Republican leadership of the House of Representatives has vowed to cut
federal spending to the levels it stood at before President Barack Obama's economic stimulus measures and the bank
bailout.
I know the «experts» at the
Federal Reserve with their Keynesian economic approach to government «stimulus» and
bailouts have been completely wrong
in their analysis and prescriptions for the financial crisis.
Schools that receive
federal aid for disadvantaged students and that consistently fall short of the goals set under No Child Left Behind are subject to increasingly severe penalties, beginning with the
bailout provision offered parents after two straight years of shortfalls
in either one of the two subjects currently covered by the law: math and reading.
First Akerson's, and now Barra's tenure at the top represents a stabilization of the new General Motors that emerged out of a
federal government - led
bailout and bankruptcy
in July 2009.