The U.S. $700-billion financial bailout under scrutiny by Congress could cripple the federal budget for science and research, scientists fear.
... the government has no formal obligation to rescue the PBGC, but predicts politics will ensure a bailout, similar to the deal that propped up mortgage lending giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which ...
Alberta's oil and gas industry is looking for tax incentives - not cash bailouts - when federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty presents the federal budget Tuesday.
The administration says five banks have repaid millions of dollars they received from the government's $700 billion financial bailout pot.
A federal rescue of troubled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could cost taxpayers as much as $25 billion, Congress’ top budget analyst said Tuesday.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Wall Street stumbled again Wednesday, with anxieties about the financial system still running high after the government bailed out insurer American International Group Inc. The ...
The Web site for the House of Representatives has been overwhelmed this week by a deluge of visitors trying to e-mail their congressmen and download the financial bailout bill the House rejected.
Technology stocks bounced back Tuesday after being pounded one day earlier when the U.S. Congress voted down the Bush administration's proposed financial bailout package.
... outrage expressed by many so-called Main Street folks over the proposed Wall Street bailout is based on more than a sense of injustice. It's about revenge, a basic animal instinct shared by humans, ...
Our worries. They're crescendoing like the finale of Beethoven's "Ninth": Bailouts, buyouts. Recession, depression.
Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: How much will $700 billion get you? The widely publicized cost of the financial bailout is equal to 7 Apollo programs, according to our mega-money conversion chart.
The Web site for the House of Representatives has been overwhelmed this week by a deluge of visitors trying to e-mail their congressmen and download the financial bailout bill the House rejected.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 (UPI) -- The U.S. economic bailout bill signed into law Friday includes a requirement that insurers provide equal coverage for mental and physical illnesses.
... sank traditional corporations such as Lehman Brothers and forced a $700 billion government bailout of others, Ribstein said.
He says the relative success of "uncorporate" firms during the nation's ...
Since the recent bailout on Wall Street, the public has started to heavily scrutinize firms' large executive pay packages. This week, John White, director of the Securities and Exchange Commission's ...
