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Banks that are getting taxpayer bailouts awarded their top executives nearly $1.6 billion in salaries, bonuses, and other benefits last year, an Associated Press analysis reveals http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081221/ap_on_bi_ge/executive_bailouts

nsurance giant American International Group Inc., which has received about $150 billion in bailout money, has one of the largest fleets among bailout recipients, with seven planes, according to a review of Federal Aviation Administration records...

http://newzar.wordpress.com/2008/12/17/jp-morgan-attacks-poland/

WASHINGTON – Dick Cheney's lawyers are asserting that the vice president alone has the authority to determine which records, if any, from his tenure will be handed over to the National Archives when he leaves office in January. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081219/ap_on_go_pr_wh/cheney_lawsuit_1

WASHINGTON – The world opened its wallet for Bill Clinton. Governments, corporations and billionaires with their own interests in U.S. foreign policy gave the former president's charity millions of dollars, according to records he released Thursday to lay bare any financial entanglements that...

Deutsche Bank jolted bond and equity investors on Wednesday when it became the first big bank to say it would not repay €1bn ($1.4bn) of a particular kind of bond as expected in January. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/0ae474aa-cc6e-11dd-acbd-000077b07658.html?nclick_check=1

Fed's Latest Move Means Low Profit, High Risk for Banks http://seekingalpha.com/article/111020-fed-s-latest-move-means-low-profit-high-risk-for-banks

Steve Jobs on Tuesday made an 11th-hour withdrawal from Apple’s main event of the year, prompting concern about the chief executive’s health and the readiness of the company’s new products...

Microsoft releasing emergency patch for perilous IE flaw http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081216/ts_afp/uschinaitinternetsoftwarecrimemicrosoft

http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20081215/ap_on_hi_te/tec_internet_explorer_security

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WASHINGTON – The government is starting a different kind of most-wanted list — for environmental fugitives accused of assaulting nature. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081210/ap_on_go_ot/environmental_fugitives

Dec. 11 (Bloomberg) -- The global hedge-fund industry lost $64 billion of assets in November, with an index tracking its performance declining for a sixth month as economies in Asia and Europe joined the U.S. in recession http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&refer=home&sid=aCKCIFcYST4c

The world is bailing out banks and car companies. Italy is coming to the rescue of parmigiano cheese. "It's a tragic situation," said Marco Iemmi, who has been making parmigiano for 30 years in Salsomaggiore Terme, a small town in Italy's fertile northern Emilia-Romagna region. "I'll have to...

The Federal Reserve is considering issuing its own debt for the first time, a move that would give the central bank additional flexibility as it tries to stabilize rocky financial markets. Speaking of government bonds, why should the Treasury have all the fun? The Federal Reserve is...

The biggest US financial institutions reported a sharp increase to $610bn in so-called hard-to-value assets during the third quarter, raising concerns about the hidden dangers on balance sheets. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/0627def0-c6f8-11dd-97a5-000077b07658.html

The US Treasury should more closely scrutinise banks receiving public capital to ensure the money is being used to support the economy and not hoarded, a watchdog said on Wednesday. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8ac5eaa4-c6ed-11dd-97a5-000077b07658.html?nclick_check=1

Dec. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Goldman Sachs Group Inc., one of the top five U.S. municipal bond underwriters, is angering politicians and public-finance officials in New Jersey, Wisconsin, California and Florida by recommending that investors purchase credit-default swaps to bet against 11 states’...

Liberals are growing increasingly nervous – and some just flat-out angry – that President-elect Barack Obama seems to be stiffing them on Cabinet jobs and policy choices http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20081208/pl_politico/16292

They aren't taking them on tours of the NYSE,lol. Chinese tour groups go house-hunting in U.S. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-fi-chinahomes7-2008dec07,0,7107830.story?track=rss