How nice. The U.S. Senate couldn’t get an amendment through to add an exemption to the new banking and consumer loan regulations (as did the House of Representatives), so instead they cast a “nobody will notice this” vote later to allow their negotiators to include it when the bill is reconciled with the House version. [...]
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Got Plans for That $80-odd Billion Investment?
May 23rd, 2010 
Aaron Turpen The Government Accounting Office, which is (supposedly) non-partisan and may or may not have a stalwart track record in accurate accounting,* has released some information that is a little less than reassuring to those banking on the auto industry’s bailout billions being recouped. The GAO interviewed a bunch of experts in the financial and auto [...]
