obama bankruptcy reform
PAUL KRUGMAN: THE BANKRUPTCY BOYS
OK, the beast is starving. Now what? That’s the question confronting Republicans. But they’re refusing to answer, or even to engage in any serious discussion about what to do.
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Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP): Implementation and Status – CRS Report $0.99 The Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) was created by the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act (EESA; P.L. 110-343) in October 2008. EESA was enacted to address an ongoing financial crisis that reached near-panic proportions in September 2008. The act granted the Secretary of the Treasury authority to either purchase or insure up to $700 billion in troubled assets owned by financial institutions… |
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America’s Welfare State: From Roosevelt to Reagan (A Concise and Informative Historical Overview) Social welfare policy in the United States has gone from controversy in the 1930s, to consensus at mid-century, and back to controversy and confusion in the late twentieth century. In “America’s Welfare State,” Edward Berkowitz offers a concise and informative historical overview of this costly and often frustrating area of domestic policy. Describing the uneasy evolution of America’s welfare prog… |
