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AIG's New Math: Something Smells -- Seeking Alpha
<strong><a href='http://fridayinvegas.blogspot.com'>Kid Dynamite</a>submits:</strong><div>This AIG story has been bugging me for the past few days. The government has already restruck the terms of its AIG loans multiple times to make them more favorable for AIG (<a
Government Is the Market for Preferred Stock -- Seeking Alpha
<strong>Linus Wilson submits:</strong><p>From September 2010 to the present, the U.S. Government made more investments in the preferred stock than the size of the publically traded market.<span></span>According to<a
Another 'Healthy' TARP Bank Seized -- Seeking Alpha
<strong>Linus Wilson submits:</strong><p>Midwest Bank Holdings (<a href='http://seekingalpha.com/symbol/mbhi' alt='Midwest Banc Holding' title='Midwest Banc Holding'>MBHI</a>) was the latest recipient of the Troubled Asset Relief Program(TARP)’s funds<a
Just Say 'No' to Small Bank Bailout 2.0 -- Seeking Alpha
<strong>Linus Wilson submits:</strong><p><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN0211288920100202">Reuters</a>details the newest $30 billion small bank bailout program, which emerged in the administration’s latest budget proposal.<span></span>Fifty-five mostly small community banks in
Fixing TBTF: William Poole's Ideas -- Seeking Alpha
<strong><a href='http://optionarmageddon.ml-implode.com'>Rolfe Winkler, CFA</a>submits:</strong><div><div><div><div><p>William Poole, the last President of the St. Louis Fed and now with the Cato Institute, has a<a href="http://www.cfapubs.org/doi/pdfplus/10.2469/faj.v65.n6.8">good piece</a>on
CIT Group's Bankruptcy Plan: Goodbye Common and Preferred Stock -- Seeking Alpha
<strong><a href='http://kirklindstrom.blogspot.com/'>Kirk Lindstrom submits:</a></strong><p>On Sunday, CIT Group (<a href='http://seekingalpha.com/symbol/cit' title='More opinion and analysis of CIT'>CIT</a>) filed for bankruptcy protection with nearly 90% of its debt holders voting in favor of the
Time to Change GSEs' Deal with Treasury -- Seeking Alpha
<strong><a href='http://www.gatorcapital.com/'>Derek Pilecki</a>submits:</strong><p>Given Freddie Mac’s (<a href='http://seekingalpha.com/symbol/fre' title='More opinion and analysis of FRE'>FRE</a>) recently reported profitable second quarter earnings, it is time for Treasury Secretary
Agency Preferred Stocks: Who's Buying? -- Seeking Alpha
<p>It is now nine months since the Agencies were put into receivership. It is pretty clear that there is $200-400 billion of embedded losses. By any reasoning and analysis the common stock of both Freddie Mac (<a href='http://seekingalpha.com/symbol/fre' title='More opinion and analysis of
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