Sentences with phrase «taken financial bailouts»

President Obama has taken financial bailouts to a new level and there is more money available than any time in history.

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The economic crisis magnified this venomous cycle: «Whether it's financial bailouts or oil spills, it seems every time one turns on the television there is some executive testifying before Congress... blaming other organizations rather than taking any accountability.»

Since a brief post-prostitution-bust silence, he's taken to commenting in the media on the financial crisis, skewering Goldman Sachs, the AIG bailout and others in the Washington Post, Slate; appearances on MSNBC; and an interview with our very own Henry Blodget.

The latest BoA ML survey follows several weeks of rollercoaster markets around the world with investors taking fright at a series of geopolitical and financial risks including Gaza, Ukraine, Iraq and the bailout of Portugal's Banco Espirito Santo.

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.

And third, compensation in the form of stock - based pay encourages CEOs to take excessive risks to boost share prices, risking a financial crisis and taxpayer bailout.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R - KY) took to the Senate floor today to repeat the false assertion that the pending financial reform bill will lead to further taxpayer - funded bailouts.

The film sees the Australian filmmaker uses the frame of a crime story — about two low - level criminals (Scoot McNairy & Ben Mendelsohn) who rip off a mob card game, and the enforcer (Brad Pitt) tasked with taking them out — to tackle the 2008 financial collapse and bailout, and many took issue with a perceived unsubtlety in his approach.

Gilbert's style is hard - hitting; though many financial companies took advantage of government largesse, few practically considered the possibility of bailouts while the boom was going on; they were pursuing profit with little thought of systemic risk.

Private mortgage insurers, who put their own capital at risk to mitigate mortgage credit risk, provided over $ 50 billion in credit risk protection since the financial crisis to the GSEs and did not take any taxpayer bailout.

Many of the automakers are offering special financing deals right now as well, because of the economic state of the country and the financial bailout that they took from Washington.

Yes, I know the company is still being shunned by many institutional investors because many of them were burned during the financial crisis of 2008 when the Treasury took a majority equity position during the bailout.

Certainly not worth taking when you're talking about the entire planet, when you simply can't have a bailout like for the financial institutions.

Bank of America execs have taken over $ 35 million in bonuses and compensation even as the troubled financial instritution took government bailouts.

The case being significant because it makes the bank the first to be charged for its actions during the financial crisis, even if those actions were taken to avoid a bailout.

The company has stayed strong and resilient throughout the 2007 - 2008 financial crisis, and has reused to participate in the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) and has not taken any kind of federal bailout.

Federal regulators took over the two companies during the 2008 financial crisis, eventually injecting them with $ 187.5 billion in bailout money.