If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!The Treasury announced today that 19 banks have been allowed repay a total of $68 billion in TARP funds. The banks, who remain nameless were granted permission to buy back the warrants that the Treasury holds in each [...]
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by Constantine von HoffmanNovember 13, 2008
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A guest post from Constantine von Hoffman, veteran business journalist and author of the blog CollateralDamage.biz, a humorous look at marketing, business and his dog.
At this point in the economic down-turn there?s really only one question on most of our minds: How can I become a commercial bank or an automaker?
My old friend Helen Kennedy [...]
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