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01.13.2009 9:01 pm

TARP, Part 2: This time, with strings

In our colleague David Nicklaus’ column in Sunday’s Post-Dispatch, Stuart Greenbaum, professor emeritus at Washington University’s Olin School of Business, rose to the defense of the U.S. banking industry, which has been under fire for its continued tight-fisted lending policies.

“People not…

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01.04.2009 9:02 pm

The Fed rolls over on credit cards

AP Photo/Mark Lennihan

AP Photo/Mark Lennihan

We now know — thanks to, among other things, the revelations of whistle-blowers whose warnings went unheeded — that the explosion in home mortgage defaults and the ongoing credit crisis might have been avoided if the Federal Reserve had…

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12.17.2008 9:00 pm

High rollers still rule credit bailout

FDIC Chairman Sheil Bair (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

President-elect Barack Obama insists he will protect Main Street, not just Wall Street, when fashioning a federal response to the credit crisis.

Perhaps so. Perhaps his “one president at a time” rule is causing…

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