House set for vote on massive financial bailout

Seeded on Mon Sep 29, 2008 12:13 PM EDT (msnbc.com)

Key supporters of a Wall Street bailout package prodded lawmakers to approve the plan hours ahead of a difficult House vote later Monday.

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Health care costs rose faster than inflation despite weak economy
Mon May 21, 2012
- jblo-1489250 That's how it used to work. I pay for the eye doctor and chiropractor out of pocket and you don't see their services suffering run away inflation. They have all the same cost drivers as medicine.
Does your Facebook 'Like' count as free speech?
Wed May 2, 2012
- One fatal flaw in your logic, Republicans won't be the ones running out and spending that money that'll be the Democrats in your office.
Is it illegal to record and post noisyneighborshaving sex?
Fri May 18, 2012
- Soundcloud isn't too clued up on removing all the clips on their servers. It's still there posted by numerous other people. Only the original upload appears to have been removed.
'Covert' US drone operation is mapped on Twitter
Fri May 18, 2012
- Well at least I am not the only one to be puzzling about this. Did they really think that once those missiles had slammed into something that it was still a secret to the local population?
Nurses (yes, nurses) lead charge for Wall Street 'sin' tax
Fri May 18, 2012
- How one earth do you think this will impact Wall St at all? That transaction tax will be passed on to YOU. You know: each time your 401K grows by $100 investment, each time your 401K fund buys/sells something.
Facebook shares start trading with modest gains
Fri May 18, 2012
- tontosh, yup well someone had to step in to buy those 33M shares from GS, 26M from Tiger, 52M from DST etc: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303448404577407774136362662.html#project%3DFACEBOOKIPOPROFITS3_JPG20120516_pg_2%26articleTabs%3Dinteractive
Look out, kids: Windows 8 gives parents a computer-use report card
Thu May 17, 2012
- You mean something complex like using Chrome with an incognito tab and erasing everything with freeware like CCleaner?
Facebook prices IPO at $38 a share, valuing company at over $100 billion
Thu May 17, 2012
- only to all the fans who thought they were being so smart buying shares while the large institutional holdings were selling them like hotcakes.
Facebook prices IPO at $38 a share, valuing company at over $100 billion
Thu May 17, 2012
- Shorting may be a risky move but let's face it, GS announcing it was dumping 28.7M of its holdings in FB means they aren't exactly enthused about its long term prospects.
Goldman could make $1.09 billion in Facebook IPO
Thu May 17, 2012
- I don't buy into that.

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Comments & Feedback

I couldn't agree with you more or said it any better. Amen !
— tlee-1268841

Your right it seems that Jude the Dude blames everyone but himself. Its been almost 1 and half years and the only thing that has changed is the amount of dept created by this administration and his ability too, like Jude, blame everyone Else. Kindest Regards Zulu2
— zigmund

I am not sure what you were responding to, but I'd hazard a guess that no matter who was President after 9/11 would have responded in the same fashion that Bush did. How quickly everyone forgets how demanding they all were after 9/11 in clamoring for revenge.
— Voter-in-LA

Voter-in-LA, You are forgetting Bush's and the Republicans' war ( Weapons of Mass Destruction), that's draining the country more than any welfare, or Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac or Acorn. Bush was not looking for terrorists, the man's was interested in oil. I love the way some of you think, keep it up, if America continues to lose jobs as it's doing today, our tomorrows will soon cede to exist. Well, we won't have to worry about our children, or our children's children paying taxes on this money or any other, will we.
— Mary Robertson