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	<title>The Brian Sullivan Blog &#187; Financial Rescue Plan</title>
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		<title>SEIU Goes After Goldman Sachs - Why Not Fannie Mae or Congress?</title>
		<link>http://briansullivan.blogs.foxbusiness.com/2009/11/13/seiu-goes-after-goldman-sachs-why-not-fannie-mae-or-congress/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:32:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Sullivan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Service Employees International Union has Goldman Sachs in its sights.   Why not  Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac or Congress?
The union will lead a protest Monday in front of the building that houses Goldman's Washington offices (one wonders why they aren't protesting in front of the New York office given that the DC office doesn't house [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bailout CIT?  Hell, No!   (Well, Maybe)</title>
		<link>http://briansullivan.blogs.foxbusiness.com/2009/07/16/bailout-cit-hell-no-well-maybe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:52:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Sullivan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[TARP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CIT bailout]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CIT Group]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[retail bailout]]></category>

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Can one midsize company be too big to fail?    If it's CIT Group, maybe.
On the heels of AIG, GM and taxpayer billions dumped into banks one thing is clear: America is sick of bailouts.   It's also clear there is little public support for any taxpayer-funded bailout of struggling CIT Group.    But a closer look [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tuesday Reading: Goldman Rolls; Teens Don&#039;t Twitter?; Small Business Surtax; Guerrilla Ads</title>
		<link>http://briansullivan.blogs.foxbusiness.com/2009/07/14/tuesday-reading-goldman-rolls-small-business-surtax-guerrilla-ads/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:10:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Sullivan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Financial Rescue Plan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Top Stories]]></category>

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Stories I'm reading this Tuesday:

Goldman hits a homer in Q2 and helps stocks
Raising taxes on many small businesses in a recession makes no sense
Did probe force auto czar Rattner to step down?
Morgan Stanley intern says teenagers don't use Twitter
BusinessWeek may sell for only $1
Geithner says he will defend the U.S. dollar
Is the right wrong on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fed Emails Detail Ken Lewis&#039; Delicate Dance</title>
		<link>http://briansullivan.blogs.foxbusiness.com/2009/06/11/key-excerpts-from-fed-emails-on-bank-of-americamerrill-lynch/</link>
		<comments>http://briansullivan.blogs.foxbusiness.com/2009/06/11/key-excerpts-from-fed-emails-on-bank-of-americamerrill-lynch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:25:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Sullivan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Financial Rescue Plan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bank of America Merrill Lynch deal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ken Lewis testimony]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Oh!  What a tangled web we weave ...
Here are some of what I believe to be the key points in the series of emails going back and forth among Fed officials regarding the Bank of America / Merrill Lynch deal.
Though the emails are incomplete and a bit confusing, I have put them in chronological order [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wednesday Stories: Buongiorno Fiat!; Home Depot Helps; Saudi Oil Field Starts Up</title>
		<link>http://briansullivan.blogs.foxbusiness.com/2009/06/10/wednesday-stories-buongiorno-fiat-home-depot-helps-saudi-oil-field-starts-up/</link>
		<comments>http://briansullivan.blogs.foxbusiness.com/2009/06/10/wednesday-stories-buongiorno-fiat-home-depot-helps-saudi-oil-field-starts-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:59:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Sullivan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Financial Rescue Plan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TARP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Top Stories]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Try starting your work day like this (looks like he did it on purpose, doesn't it?)

Courtesy: Failblog
Stories I'm reading this Wednesday:

On again, off again Chrysler / Fiat deal is on again
Michigan workers try to reinvent themselves
Stocks set to rise on positive economic data out of China
Home Depot also helps the market by raising its forecast
Opinion: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What To Do With My $521 TARP Payback?</title>
		<link>http://briansullivan.blogs.foxbusiness.com/2009/06/09/what-to-do-with-my-521-tarp-payback/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 14:14:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Sullivan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[TARP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TARP payback]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The government just announced it is "allowing" 10 banks to repay $68 billion in TARP funds.   It was also noted that the banks involved have paid approximately $4.5 billion in dividends on the preferred shares to date.  This will no doubt be spun in Washington as "the taxpayer is being repaid" to the tune [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Coming Insurance Bailout</title>
		<link>http://briansullivan.blogs.foxbusiness.com/2009/04/07/the-coming-insurance-company-bailout/</link>
		<comments>http://briansullivan.blogs.foxbusiness.com/2009/04/07/the-coming-insurance-company-bailout/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 01:38:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Sullivan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[insurer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The top story in the Wall Street Journal tonight is that the Treasury plans to extend TARP funding to certain life insurance companies whose capital has been hit hard.
From the Journal:
The Treasury Department plans to extend the Troubled Asset Relief Program to certain eligible life insurers, according to people familiar with the matter. Several life [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Done With Bad News, Here Are Four Reasons To Be Optimistic</title>
		<link>http://briansullivan.blogs.foxbusiness.com/2009/02/23/done-with-bad-news-here-are-four-reasons-to-be-optimistic/</link>
		<comments>http://briansullivan.blogs.foxbusiness.com/2009/02/23/done-with-bad-news-here-are-four-reasons-to-be-optimistic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 04:38:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Sullivan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Financial Rescue Plan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[good news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[valuations]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the face of a nearly daily barrage of bad news, new lows and low spirits, perhaps it is important to smash the news cycle and find a few reasons to be more upbeat regarding the economy and markets.
With that in mind, here are four reasons to be long-term optimistic:
1. Everybody is so negative.   Right [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>51</slash:comments>
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		<title>Tuesday Stories: The &quot;T&quot; Word; Stimulus Passes; Bullet Shortage</title>
		<link>http://briansullivan.blogs.foxbusiness.com/2009/02/10/tuesday-stories-the-t-word-stimulus-passes-stocks-sink/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:06:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Sullivan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Financial Rescue Plan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Top Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[no stimulus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stimulus plan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stocks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TARP]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Stories I'm watching on this busy Tuesday, one which could go down as the most important in American financial history:

Ladies and Gentlemen we have hit the "T" (trillion) word in the bank bailout
We are actually going over $2 trillion announced today and details are still sketchy
All that money and the stock market still isn't rising
Don't [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grading The Stimulus Advisory Board: Some Good Picks, Some Bad Picks and Some Clear Conflicts</title>
		<link>http://briansullivan.blogs.foxbusiness.com/2009/02/06/gradnig-the-stimulus-advisory-board-some-good-picks-some-big-conflicts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:25:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Sullivan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Financial Rescue Plan]]></category>
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President Obama named the members of the Economic Recovery Advisory Board charged to oversee the $925 billion dollar spending package (interesting that the board was named even before the measure has passed Congress).   The list contains some known names, some new ones, some good picks and a few that are riddled with conflicts.   It also [...]]]></description>
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