Let me see if I understand this right, A Democtratic legislated and a Republican administrated TARP hands Bank of America $15 billion and them proceeds to give them another $10 billion. Then I read about BofA asking for more.

However,…

The OPINION page in the January 14, 2009 edition of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch contains an article entitled “TARP, with strings”. It generally criticizes banks for hoarding, not lending, the bailout funds received from the government, as well as the…

Re. the Guest Editorial, “Big boys are not that bright”, 3rd. Para.:
“We’ve got a bunch of geniuses on Wall Street who led our nations mortgage financing industry into disaster, backing kinky loans made by predatory lenders who behaved like the…

The audacity of President Bush and Congress to say that the government will have the option of becoming a stockholder in the companies. It’s NOT the government’s money they’re using. It’s the taxpayers of this country. We, the people, are…

Citigroup received $45 billion in bailout funds and spent $10 billion to buy out a highway operation sysyem, Itinere, in Spain. Treasury Secretary Paulson is free and easy with companies spending bailout money on lavish recreational pursuits like the big…

Your writers constantly report on the inappropriate bailout programs. Why not have a bailout that helps the banks AND the struggling home owners at the same time?? If the banks need cash, the homeowners need relief, and the government needs…

I’ve heard a lot of discussion regarding the current economy and what caused us to get here. I think Bill Clinton has expressed the best analysis: we cannot point to any one factor, it is a combination of multiple factors.

However,…

Well it’s official. We’re in a recession. The “experts” say so. I’m sure that comes as a huge surprise to most of us. What I find surprising, is the fact that our government took this long to recognize it. As…

Americans once took responsibility for the outcomes of their actions. Why then now, have so many seemingly come to believe that:

- The only difference between those who succeed and those who fail is luck or corruption.
- Taxation should become…

Mr. Adam Vishy’s letter in the Oct. 11th Post says that deregulation is not to blame for our present home mortgage financial crisis. His idea is that without the bailout the condition would correct itself and the perpetrators would suffer…