30 percent of Federal loan guarantees went to individuals with connections to the Obama administration (either fundraisers or staff)

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30 percent of Federal loan guarantees went to individuals with connections to the Obama administration (either fundraisers or staff)


Russell Roberts: What You Need to Know about the Bailout

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEniEYD59EE&feature=share


Why Official Bailouts Tend Not To Work: An Example Motivated by Greece 2010

http://www.bepress.com/ev/vol8/iss1/art3/?sending=11342


Fiscal Spending Jobs Multipliers: Evidence from the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

http://www.frbsf.org/publications/economics/papers/2010/wp10-17bk.pdf


Fed aid in financial crisis went beyond U.S. banks to industry, foreign firms

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/01/AR2010120106870.html


Miron: To Create Jobs, Stop Destroying Jobs

http://jeffreymiron.blogspot.com/2009/12/to-create-jobs-stop-destroying-jobs.html


Was TARP Necessary?

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Was TARP Necessary?


More Corporate Bailouts…

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125832961253649563.html?mod=wsj_share_facebook


What Hope and Change Gives You:

http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2009/11/unemployment-update.html


Politicians Butt In at Bailed-Out GM

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125677552001414699.html


Government Motors Update From Mankiw

http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2009/11/government-motors-update.html


Professor Roberts Testifying Before Congress on Executive Pay and Bailouts

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http://www.c-span.org/Watch/Media/2009/10/28/HP/A/24760/House+Oversight+Cmte+Hearing+on+Executive+Compensation.aspx


GM Bailout

http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2009/05/counting-on-ignorance.html


Institutionalized Bailouts and Fiscal Policy: The Consequences of Soft Budget Constraints

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1485196#1374925


Total Cost of the Bailout

http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2009/09/stringhams_a_wi.html


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