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$700 billion bailout

Still waiting on Main Street

by Moe Bedard

THE US Treasury Department needs to take the same kind of aggressive steps to ease financial strains on homeowners that it took to guarantee the investments of banks and financial institutions. The economy can’t turn around until the housing market stabilizes. That requires a timely plan to stem mortgage defaults and foreclosures.

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The $700 Billion Bailout of the Secret Shadow Banking System

by Moe Bedard

By Moe Bedard

There are over 8,000 US Banks insured by the FDIC operating across the country and the reports coming from these banks are actually good. Most of the 8,000 banking institutions are doing fine because they do not have huge problems with toxic mortgage portfolios. Nor do they have loan portfolios full of cancerous pay option mortgages.
The sector that [...]

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