Oct 23 2009
Debt Burden Britons Turn to Sensible Strategies to Restore Financial Balance
Cash strapped Britons are finding themselves further in debt according to findings from recent surveys undertaken by the credit industry as part of their attempts to determine why so many citizens of the UK are struggling financially. A credit boom in the 1990s during much more economically stable times allowed far more borrowers in the [...]
Feb 5 2009
TARP Recipients Paid Out $114 Million for Politicking Last Year
The companies that have been awarded taxpayers’ money from Congress’s bailout bill spent $77 million on lobbying and $37 million on federal campaign contributions, Center finds. The return on investment: 258,449 percent.
WASHINGTON–(This release has been corrected to reflect that Bank of America has received $45 billion, not $55 billion, from the TARP program. The [...]