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    Guest Blogger: Rep. Peter Roskam (R-IL) on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

    May 13, 2010 at 7:33 pm

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    In the last week, the government-backed mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac asked the taxpayer for $19 billion to stay afloat.  Add that to the $127 billion in bailouts they have already received since September 2008, and we are now talking about a whopping $146 billion of your … More

    The Fannie and Freddie Solution for Pollution

    May 13, 2010 at 6:00 pm

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    Senators Kerry and Lieberman have introduced their “compromise” climate change legislation that relies largely on a “cap and trade” scheme to reduce carbon emissions. Even assuming there was a need for carbon limits, the Kerry-Lieberman bill gets the mechanism all wrong, apparently because the Senators either don’t understand or don’t … More

    No-More-Bailouts Bill Springs a Leak: Fannie and Freddie Ask for More

    May 10, 2010 at 6:06 pm

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    Supporters of Sen. Chris Dodd’s financial regulation bill say it will end financial bailouts. In fact, the Senate — anxious to reassure Americans on that fact — even added an amendment last week with a stated purpose “[t]o prohibit taxpayers from ever having to bail out the financial sector.” But … More

    Morning Bell: Fannie and Freddie Failure Forever

    May 6, 2010 at 9:29 am

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    Yesterday, Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) told reporters about his financial regulation bill, “We’ve ended the ‘too big to fail’ debate. So no longer do I expect any argument to be made that this bill exposes the American taxpayer.” Really. Someone might want to tell Sen. Dodd that in other news … More

    A Snake Oil Sales Pitch for President Obama’s Bank Tax

    May 5, 2010 at 5:00 pm

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    It must not be easy being Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, these days. His latest task is to sell a skeptical Congress on the Obama Administration’s $90 billion bank tax with something of a convoluted snake oil sales pitch. He tried to make his argument to the Senate Finance Committee on … More

    Obama’s Bank Tax – The Victim is YOU!

    March 5, 2010 at 3:48 pm

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    So President Obama wants to slap a tax on banks, but should you really care? Absolutely. Those taxes are going to wind up costing YOU money, whether you’re a customer, a bank employee or an investor, according to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO). As ABC News reports, the CBO … More

    In Pictures: Obama’s Bank Tax – Robbing Peter to Pay Paul

    March 4, 2010 at 5:30 pm

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    In his State of the Union Address, President Barack Obama proposed “a modest fee” on banks that “would pay back the taxpayers who rescued them in their time of need.” In truth, his bank tax would hit financial institutions who have paid back their bailout funds, with interest, while those … More

    Morning Bell: The President’s Permanent Political Slush Fund

    February 3, 2010 at 9:32 am

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    After suffering major electoral and legislative defeats last month, President Barack Obama took to the campaign trail in Nashua, New Hampshire, pitching his administration’s latest new plan to lower our nation’s double digit unemployment rate. This time, the President hopes to do for small businesses what Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac … More

    Morning Bell: Bank Tax Misses the Real Bailout Deadbeats in Detroit and DC

    January 15, 2010 at 9:51 am

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    Facing rising populist anger over his administration’s billion-dollar bailouts, President Barack Obama proposed a $117 billion tax over the next 12 years on financial companies with assets of more than $50 billion. “We want our money back, and we’re going to get it,” the President said. The President is half … More

    Fannie and Freddie: The Sky’s the Limit

    December 29, 2009 at 1:50 pm

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    While most of us were at home waiting for Santa and his reindeer to arrive, a gift arrived for mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, as the Obama Administration lifted caps on how much bailout money they can receive from the U.S. Treasury. The old limits for the firms, … More

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