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economic crisis Archive
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Exxon Mobil Posts Record Profit (Again)
Posted on October 30, 2008 | No CommentsOf course. We’re in the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, but Exxon Mobil still pumps out the dough: Exxon Mobil Corp. set a quarterly profit record for a... -
$700 billion amount was just made up
Posted on September 25, 2008 | No CommentsForbes’ Wingfield and Zumbrun bring us this scoop on how Paulson and Bernanke got the $700 billion figure: “It’s not based on any particular data point,” a Treasury spokeswoman told... -
Paulson, Senate Dems reach tentative bailout deal
Posted on September 24, 2008 | No CommentsFrom The Hill: Senate Democrats emerged from a meeting Wednesday with Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson to report a general, conceptual — but fragile — agreement on a $700 billion plan... -
Krugman wonders why only yesterday the Paulson Plan was about price discovery
Posted on September 24, 2008 | No CommentsHe found that it was only yesterday that this bailout plan used the price discovery logic, and he asks what that means: One possible explanation. It wasn’t until yesterday that... -
Claiming Credit for a Done Deal
Posted on September 24, 2008 | No CommentsAccording to Talking Points Memo, this is nearly a done deal. The deal on the “bail out” is 98% done. Treasury has capitulated on almost every point. A draft is...
