By PUMA Pundit on June 3, 2009
A quick summary of events thus far: Banks were forced to take TARP Money Banks which took TARP money subjected themselves to far reaching govt control As a result, the nine major banks were effectively nationalized. Some argued that banks have only themselves to blame for taking TARP money as they knew the consequences. However, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged bank of america, Bank of New York, barack obama, citigroup, george w. bush, goldman sachs, henry paulson, Jamie Dimon, John Mack, John Thain, JP Morgan, Kenneth Lewis, Lloyd Blankfein, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Richard Kovacevich, Robert Kelly, Ronald Logue, State Street Bank, tarp, timothy geithner, Troubled Asset Relief Program, vikram pandit, wells fargo |
By PUMA Pundit on April 4, 2009
Numerous financial institutions which received TARP funds are trying to repay the funds, interest added. Barack Obama is however refusing to accept the funds… WSJ Under the Bush team a prominent and profitable bank, under threat of a damaging public audit, was forced to accept less than $1 billion of TARP money. The government insisted [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged banks, barack obama, commuism, socialism, tarp, Troubled Asset Relief Program, vladimir lenin
By PUMA Pundit on March 21, 2009
I guess the drive to Nationalize the US economy continues. Obama does not seem to care that the very essence of the free enterprise system, aka free market economy, aka capitalism is that folks can decide what their labor is worth, and go find someone who will pay them for it. As if stirring up popular [...]
Posted in Featured | Tagged aig, citigroup, tarp, vikram pandit |
By PUMA Pundit on March 20, 2009
Awesome stuff from the Telegraph… Perhaps Barack Obama was just trying to make Joe Biden feel better by dropping his clanger on Jay Leno. Whatever the President was thinking, 60 days into their new administration it’s time for a post-election Obama-Biden Top 10, in reverse order: 10. Just after he’s been sworn in by him, the newly-minted [...]
Posted in Featured | Tagged barack obama, gaffes, gordon brown, hms resolute, jay leno, joe biden, justice paul stephens, marine one, nancy reagan, special olympics, tarp, winston churchill |
By PUMA Pundit on March 7, 2009
I think it is a very sad testament to the state of affairs in this country when John Kerry, has the audacity to make the following assertion: Bloomberg ” Last week, when American taxpayers learned that a bank receiving Troubled Asset Relief Program funds had thrown a lavish bash and spared no expense to celebrate [...]
Posted in Capitol Hill | Tagged bank of america, barack obama, earth wind and fire, john kerry, Maryland crab, nantucket scallops, tarp, Troubled Asset Relief Program, wagyu beef, White House |