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Handsome government handout for homebuilders
Colin Barr 2010-01-14 01:56By Colin BarrTalk about cash for clunkers.Lennar (LEN), the Miami-based homebuilder that has been gushing red ink since its misguided bets on house pr...
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No Morgan Stanley handout, Treasury says
Colin Barr 2010-05-14 09:16Earlier, I wrote a story on the latest report by the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program. The story drew heavily on the co...
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The federal government gets TARP right
財富中文網 2009-06-10 01:20The feds refused to buy troubled assets with TARP cash. It's one of the smarter moves they've made.By Allan SloanSometimes the best investment is the ...
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Renewable energy: The government piggy-bank
Shelley DuBois 2010-08-18 01:39If the government truly wants America to go green, it's going to have to shell out to support the nascent but important sector of our economy. Green j...
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Meet the new, government-owned GM
財富中文網 2009-06-01 01:06Bankruptcy will force lots of changes on the automaker, putting bureaucrats in the driver's seat.By Alex Taylor IIIWith General Motors poised to enter...
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Should US government debt be rated junk?
Daryl G. Jones 2010-09-09 01:33A few weeks ago, Hedgeye, the investment research firm where I'm a managing director, hosted a conference call for our subscribers that posed the ques...
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'TARP babies' struggle to pay back government
財富中文網 2009-04-24 05:55Banks trying to return bailout funds find doing so isn't quite as quick and easy as they might have hoped, due to problems on how to handle warrants.B...
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Google sues US Government for anti-competitive behavior?!
Seth Weintraub 2010-11-04 01:58By putting out a Request for Quotation (RFQ) that doesn't allow for any company besides Microsoft to compete, Google's offering wasn't given a fair sh...
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What's costlier than a government run prison? A private one
D.M. Levine 2010-08-23 06:10Early this month, three convicted murderers escaped from a prison in Kingman, a small town along Route 66 in northwest Arizona. According to reports, ...
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Bulls tiptoe into homebuilder stocks
Nancy Miller 2010-08-05 05:47It takes a lot of courage to be a bull on homebuilder stocks these days. They exist, for sure. And they aren't on mind-bending drugs. In fact, they se...
