FACING SOUTH - Online Magazine of the Institute for Southern Studies

Subscribe to RSS

Results tagged “bailout”

The investment banking giant that has received billions in taxpayer bailout money has issued a cease-and-desist letter to the person behind goldmansachs666.com. More...

user-pic

| Recommend: Vote 0 Votes | Email this entry

Zephyr Teachout has helped launch a group that believes banks should never be allowed to get 'too big to fail' -- and is organizing demonstrations across the South and country on April 11 to make the case. More...

Why would companies dining at the public trough turn around and bite the hand that feeds them? Phil Mattera of Dirt Diggers Digest reports. More...

A look at the AIG bailout by the numbers. More...

MARCH 2009 | Seven Southern states received at least $100 million each thanks to taxpayer bailout money passed through insurance giant AIG. More...

There has been ample grumbling from bankers who took the Treasury Department's money. ProPublica reports on the first bank to actually follow through and return the money. More...

In a sign of their ongoing clout in politics and the finance industry, Southern banks have raked in nearly $50 billion in federal money used to purchase troubled bank stock. More...

Human rights lawyer and law professor Bill Quigley offers five principles to help ensure that the post-bailout United States won't end up like the post-Katrina Gulf Coast. More...

Union workers in North Carolina stood in solidarity with Chicago sit-down strikers this week when they picketed outside Bank of America's Charlotte headquarters. Last week 200 workers at Republic Windows and Doors in Chicago, Ill. occupied the factory demanding severance and... More...

Citigroup, Bank of America and other finance giants are taking U.S. taxpayer money -- and then investing in lucrative projects abroad. More...

Before the elections, banking giant Wachovia was teetering on the brink of collapse and asking for government help. How did it manage an $8 million bailout to the cash-strapped National Republican Congressional Committee? More...

1