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How Much of the Bailout Is Going to Small Banks?

It’s been a while since we’ve updated you on the Treasury Department’s progress in actually doling out money to banks (and ailing aut … more…

How Serious Are Treasury’s New TARP Lobbying Limits?

While President Obama worked the Hill yesterday, trying to get support on the now nearly $900 billion stimulus package, the Treasury … more…

Will Geithner Clear Up the TARP Muddle?

Newly confirmed Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is on the job today. And his first act is to announce new rules to limit lobbyists' c … more…

Savings and No Loan: TARP Recipients Lending Less

Bad news for anyone who still thinks the purpose of the Troubled Asset Relief Program was to encourage banks' lending: 10 of the 13 l … more…

Nationalization of Banks? Citi, Gov’t Agreement Already Provides for Partial Takeover

The big question these days is whether the government will step in and take over the nation's faltering major banks. Details in the g … more…

BofA and Gov’t's Secret Deal

In mid-December, Bank of America struck a deal behind closed doors with top U.S. financial officials: BofA could count on all the hel … more…

While Congress Debates More Bailout Money, Treasury Is Already Spending It

There's a bit of a disconnect. As soon as today, the Senate will be voting on whether to release the second $350 billion of bailout m … more…

Quick Picks: Bank Hoards Bailout Bucks

Quick Picks focuses on a select few of the day's stories from "Breaking on the Web."

How Citigroup Unraveled Under Geithner’s Watch

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke (right) listens to President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York Timothy Geithner before a … more…

Obama Team’s Request for Bailout Money Short on Specifics

We didn't have to wonder for long whether the Obama administration would tap the second half of the $700 billion bailout bill. (The T … more…

This Year In Scandals: Forgotten Stories From the Market Meltdown

How did billion become the new million? Well, that's the trillion-dollar question. And as the year comes to a close, everyone is look … more…

Helpers or Hucksters? A Look at ‘Mortgage Mod’ Firms

It seems like a gruesome business: A homeowner is floundering, in real danger of foreclosure. The mortgage mod salesman swoops in and … more…

Foreclosure ‘Hope for Homeowners’ Program Still Hopeless

Early in November, we wrote that HUD’s "Hope for Homeowners" program was struggling to dole out the hope. In its first two weeks, onl … more…

This Week’s Scandals: Blago’s Bribes, Blackwater And More

Every week, we take stock of how the week unfolded for the stories we're tracking in Scandal Watch (see the right sidebar). Here is … more…

Taxpayer Cash in Hand, Citigroup Keeps Lobbying

Should companies keep lobbying when taxpayers are footing the bill?

Citigroup seems to think so.

Its "government relations … more…

AIG: And Did We Mention $10 Billion in Casino Fun?

The federal government has been generous to AIG. The train wreck of an insurance company has pocketed more than $150 billion in bailo … more…

At Fannie and Freddie, Docs Show Eyes Were Wide Open

The taxpayers are on the hook for potentially hundreds of billions of dollars in mortgage losses from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac beca … more…

Freddie Spent Millions to Make Republican Friends

It’s hard to overstate the size of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s lobbying machine before they collapsed into government hands. Taken t … more…

Bailout Update: 27 More Banks Line Up

It's time for your weekly TARP update! Twenty-seven more banks announced this week that they'd received approval from the Treasury D … more…

This Week in Scandals

Every week, we take stock of how the week unfolded for the stories we're tracking in Scandal Watch (see the right sidebar). Here is … more…