Earlier today, we posted schedules for some 370 events at the Democratic and Republican nominating conventions, many of which are sponsored by private interests. The RNC list is here, the DNC list is here. On page 7 of the latter document, there’s an event called the “FSR Financial Literacy Brunch,” sponsored by 21 companies, including [...]
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Will Dodd and Conrad Attend Financial Literacy Brunch?
August 7th, 2008 · 3 Comments
Tags: Ad Hoc · Countrywide Scandal · General Real Time
Birnbaum: Bank of America lobbyists wrote parts of bank bail out bill
June 26th, 2008 · 3 Comments
Jeffrey Birnbaum, writing in the Washington Post, reports lobbyists wrote key portions of the mortgage bailout bill:
Credit Suisse, a large investment bank heavily invested in mortgage-backed securities, proposed allowing hundreds of thousands of homeowners to refinance their mortgages with lower-cost government-insured loans, relieving financial institutions of the troubled debt.
After the bank proposed this to Congress [...]
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