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Fed Makes Emergency Move to Stabilize Markets. Will It Help?

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Fed’s Solution to Market Meltdown: Buy Up More Short-Term Debt
The Federal Reserve announced today that they will be invoking Depression-era powers to buy “commercial paper”, which it hopes will provide struggling companies with money to pay their bills.
In this action, the Fed basically becomes a source of credit for nonfinancial business, in addition to the traditional [...]

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The Bailout Plan: $700 Billion and Markets Are Still Jittery

Saturday, October 4, 2008

Will the Government Bailout Plan Work? Financial Markets Are Still Nervous, Should We Be? 
Interesting article from Yahoo and the Associated Press around the challenges still ahead, in spite of the $700 billion dollar banking bailout plan signed into law by the President today:
Bailout signed, now it’s wait and see its effects
From the article:
The immediate response to [...]

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Friday, October 3, 2008

America is faced with the biggest housing crisis, and due to the ripple effect, potentially, the biggest overall “financial crisis” in the nation’s history. Giant government bailouts can certainly alleviate the jitters on Wall Street and inject stability into banks and financial markets, but that alone won’t be enough.
The real issue we are dealing with is home [...]

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