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So, while this is called a "Greek bailout" , it is in effect just as much about bailing out the foolish lenders in France and Germany.

One of her first tasks as IMF chief will be to help hammer out a second bailout package for Greece.

Swaziland has asked South Africa for a financial bailout as it risks running out of money, South Africa's top foreign affairs official says.

The United States will have no role in the bailout decision, to be made by the 17 key "Eurozone" countries of the European Union.

If handled correctly, the IMF said, the ultimate cost of the global government financial bailout may not be as high as often supposed.

" Jackson mused, laughing, referring to the government bailout of the banking giant. " He might have to give Citibank a loan.

This setback did not, however, dampen Merkel's mood, as she showed when Ireland and Greece sought an easing of their bailout terms.

The 85 billion bailout is not a small sum of money and is supposed to help Ireland out of the crisis if appropriately used.

But mostly because, after the mini-inflation scare following the ECB's bailout plans for Europe, we seem to be having a deflation scare.

One critical factor was that Lee Iacocca reframed the congressional members' thinking and removed their barriers to his goal of a bailout.

Germany wants the market to help fund the bailout with the EFSF acting as a backstop to any further bank runs.

Klaus Regling, chief of the new euro-zone bailout agency, said he could deliver 'substantial' funds 'within days. '

Since the bailout funds came from taxpayer dollars, it's easy to see how some would want to scale down bonuses at the rescued banks.

"TARP was not intended as a bailout for Wall Street, it was intended to provide benefit for the whole economy, " she said.

The bank-bailout channel will be the only monetary transmission mechanism to function like clockwork.

's status as the only Detroit auto maker to avoid a government bailout has helped the company outperform its rivals.

He said the Greek opposition's decision to support the 27 October bailout package was an important development and "courageous" .

The administration could have found a path between the false dichotomy of abandonment or bailout.

Rep. Towns said the House committee wants to ask Mr. Greenberg what went wrong at AIG that led to the bailout.

Banks that received bailout funds sat on their money, rather than lend it out to consumers or home buyers.

Also, the bailout plan isn't likely to prompt the sort of increase in mortgage lending that could put a solid floor under house prices.

A Goldman Sachs spokesman declined to comment on the AIG bailout or how much of the government funds it has received.

Sweden effectively ruled out a state bailout for Saab, saying the brand's future would have to rest with finding a new private-sector buyer.

If I were a politician who might need to underwrite the next bailout if Goldman's bets go bad, I'd be a bit worried.

Rep. Frank said the Treasury agreed to an independent board to monitor the bailout and report on its progress to Congress and the public.

Senator McCain said he is confident Congress and the Bush administration can agree on a financial bailout plan within the next few days.

The president criticized the creditors, who he said held out for the prospect of an unjustified taxpayer-funded bailout.

But a bailout harms the citizens of these other countries, who did not live beyond their means.

Workers are allowed to strike Ford Motor, the only U. S. automaker to avoid bankruptcy and a federal bailout two years ago.

In less than a week, congressional leaders seem to have reached agreement on the monster $700 billion bank bailout.

"The European Financial Stability Facility will not be able to provide a bailout of this size, " he said.

But, he said, a decision on a new longer-term bailout will be delayed until July amid disagreement over the role of private investors.

Officials said while eurozone bonds remain controversial, the bank bailout scheme appeared to be gaining traction.

But, at the same time, taxpayers are right to be outraged that the bailout itself was poorly thought out, unable to live up to its promises.

The bailout of GM effectively poured taxpayer money into an entity that private investors had determined was no longer worthy of investment.

The bank, which did not return a phone call seeking comment, has taken $45 billion in bailout funds from the government.

Foreigners have already raised concerns about this bailout-style protectionism and the potential of a global trade war.

"In a nutshell, a soft-landing, or government bailout, would be better than a hard-landing, " said UBS Securities analyst Tatsuo Yoshida.

In other words, it was a demand for a financiers' mobilisation against the bailout of their victims: people losing their homes.

He said that would include an estimate of the size of private-sector contribution and the overall bailout package.

The House's initial bailout rejection and a week of dismal economic news reinforced demand concerns.

"The Federal Reserve swap action is not a bailout for anyone but certainly not a bailout for Greece, " he said.

Meanwhile Ireland's decision to ask for a bailout has given no discernable relief to the EUR.

Corker played a key role in the debate that eventually led to the bailout failing in the Senate a week ago.

Furthermore, for Greece, such a bailout would not count as a long-term solution.

Such sentiments are helping to put the kibosh on the risk appetite whetted by the EU bailout announcement over the weekend.

Banks have been repaying their infusions in part to get out from under compensation limits imposed on the bailout recipients .

The crisis has led to a bailout of the American car industry and a government role in how it will be run.

It was clear that Lehman had three stark choices: find a partner with which to merge, hope for a bailout, or collapse into bankruptcy.

And many lawmakers and analysts began to wonder whether the first $350 billion in bailout money had any effect at all.

The bailout plan could still fail to stop financial markets from deteriorating, sending Europe's economy into a deeper funk.

Greece has sealed a deal with the European Union and IMF that opens the door to a EUR120b financial bailout, Reuters reported Sunday.

it also knows that no more bailout money will come its way unless it lives up to its promises and reduces its budget deficit to 7. 6%.

Terms of a revised bailout now foresee the closure of Cyprus Popular and a restructuring of Bank of Cyprus.

Bush acknowledged in a prime-time television address Wednesday night that the bailout would be a "tough vote" for lawmakers.

One choice is using a piece of the 700-billion-dollar bailout fund used to help the financial industry.

Car buyers who said they never considered GM during the bailout are now giving the company a chance.

Now, with a bailout plan for Greece emerging, some investors are moving out of those now money-losing trades.

He wants the department to provide more frequent valuations of a portfolio of assets it has obtained as part of the bailout.

Goldman, for its part, has insisted it did not need the bailout money because it was "always fully collateralized and hedged. "

Mr. Frieden said the bailout fund would have to act 'together with' the IMF and the ECB.

The European Union and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have made tough austerity measures a condition of any bailout.

Although the bailout bill still had not passed, the financial markets had deteriorated.

'At this point the new (bailout) agreement is inevitable and it must be safeguarded, ' Mr. Samaras said Thursday.

Given the immensity of the crisis, a Congress-approved bailout may be just a short-term fix.

Merely setting the stage for a $100 billion bailout by the U. S. government and becoming the poster child of the meltdown.

Rep. Allen Boyd, a Florida Democrat, said McCain's visit to the White House threw the negotiations over the bailout package into disarray.

General Motors re-listed after the return of the U. S. government's bailout funds, U. S. Treasury holdings in the company from 61% to 26%.

Details to implement the agreement remain unresolved, with one of the key issues being raising funds for the bailout vehicle.

Cummings said the bailout may not make things better, but "I am convinced it will stop things from getting worse. "

On Tuesday, after the news of a possible bailout, the cost of insuring Greek debt, as measured by credit-default swaps, plunged.

Some of the countries expected to help bailout Greece, like Spain, Italy and Portugal, are in no better shape.

He was named as a go-between in the aftermath of the Bank Century bailout.

All this said, critics of the bailout have reason to be furious.

We are criticized by the rest of the Eurozone, but we are the only member-state that hasn't violated the "no bailout" clause.

Sen. McCain said he will attend the Oxford, Miss. , event only if Congress reaches accord on a financial bailout package before then.

The bailout might have a limited impact precisely because large amounts of bad assets are concentrated in a handful of large banks.

Cases like this lead many economists to conclude that the impact of the bailout programs on the real economy has generally been positive.

Financial markets, around the world, are drastically rising and falling on expectations about the U. S. financial bailout.

Enthusiasm about the bank bailout plan and the stimulus plan lifted stocks last week. But it dissipated this week.

Even so, Moody's said it thought Spain would still be able to pay its debts without its own EU bailout.

And a bailout harms Greece in the longer term by delaying adjustment of the fundamental flaws in its economic policies.

An exogenous shock in the form of flu could overwhelm this strategy -- and perhaps fuel calls for a government bailout.

And when Mr. Paulson announced his plan for a huge bailout, there was a temporary surge of optimism.

I'm ill about the position that America is in and that we have to look at a $700 billion bailout.

Just look at all the banks we found that have gotten taxpayer bailout funds and are gobbling up the competition.

ADRIAN FINIGHAN: Now to the US and White House and Democratic Party legislators in congress are closer to agreeing on an auto bailout plan.

It is hard for me to see this as anything other than a lender bailout.

With the economy in the dumper, government agencies are expecting you to fund their bailout with revenue accrued from speeding citations.

Ireland's banks passed, yet it was the weakness of those same banks that forced Ireland to seek a bailout.

Ireland's banks passed, yet it was the weakness of those same banks that forced Ireland to seek a bailout.

There a few things to sort through here. First, receiving a bailout does not necessarily make a company a utility.

If the company in question is one that received a government bailout -- totally different story.

The only question is whether to jump now or wait until the next bailout.

If the Freddie and Fannie bailout were to fail, it could get a hell of a lot worse.

His comments came after Goldman Sachs reported much better-than-expected profits and unveiled plans to pay back emergency bailout money.

Bailout (2008) The Bank Bailout was but Act One of the crisis.

European stocks declined as a bailout of Ireland failed to reassure investors that the region's sovereign debt crisis will be contained.

Yung flew to Beijing and secured a bailout from his masters on the Central Committee of the Communist party.

The worry is that those rising borrowing costs eventually may prove prohibitive, forcing countries to seek some sort of bailout.

During a hearing in Congress, Geithner said the government must ensure the country never has to slog through a massive bailout again.

U. S. stocks rose as well, as investors cheered the prospect of a bailout deal, boosting the dollar against the yen.

And last week's extension of the Bush tax cuts, whether one agrees with them or not, means that our bailout tab won't have to paid just yet.

At the time, Fed officials said its bailout programs were necessary to restart the flow of credit.

Meanwhile, European stocks rallied, as the possibility of a popular vote on the bailout seemed to fade.

One of the pillars upon which the euro was established was the principle of "no bailout" .

But a bailout of Greece could mean the country won't have to issue as much debt to the bond markets.

They fret that the anti-reform forces could cite the U. S. bailout plan as proof of the need for state dominance in the economy.

I would believe that no one in his right mind is contemplating anything other than a technical bailout with the hope of recuperating money.

"An apology is due Barack Obama, " wrote The Economist, which had opposed the $86 billion auto bailout.

But that position is wilting as leaders gently prepare the public for the idea of a politically unpopular bailout.

To tell us more about the big three bailout now, Gareth Leather joins us, an automotive analyst for the Economist intelligence unit.

So, something happened this morning that has me really considering the GM bailout: My car freaked out on me.

Even if the bailout stabilizes the markets, Wall Street won't go back to its freewheeling , profit-spinning ways of old.

The higher price would help the U. S. government recoup more of the taxpayer-finance bailout that General Motors received.

One way would be by a default, perhaps accompanied by a bailout of banks whose solvency is endangered by the default.

The Irish bailout is intended as a signal that the euro zone will come to the aid of its own.

That the criticism of the bailout plan came from conservative Republicans as well as the left should make us think.

Market confidence was also hit by a new threat to Portugal's pending bailout from the rise of an anti-euro party in Finnish elections.

The debt calculus changed dramatically this week with the announcement of a Greek referendum on the bailout agreement next January.

We all know there was no government bailout for Lehman.

The bailout of Ireland's banks hasn't been enough to assuage worries that other weak European countries will also need to be rescued.

Eurozone states, at the behest of Germany and the IMF, demanded steep spending cuts from Greece as the price of its bailout.

Without a bailout, the banking system would have stayed paralyzed and the recession would have been much deeper and longer.

Sweden has effectively ruled out a state bailout of Saab.

Cyprus is going back to the drawing board after it scrapped a bailout measure that sent shock waves to world markets this week.

Force big financial firms to hold more capital to make them less prone to a system-shaking collapse and taxpayer bailout.

The main task of the new administration is to push through the bailout and austerity deal agreed with the EU.

EU officials have been discussing a bailout in the wake of a 13-day Irish bond-sell off that only eased at the end of last week.

By raising the cost of borrowing for Portugal and Spain, this has made it more likely they may need a bailout, economists say.

This [bailout of the auto industry] is not going to really work without getting some kind of flexibility from the UAW.

The commission isn't optimistic about the prospects for those countries currently in receipt of bailout funds or thought to be in the queue.

One scenario being discussed by Democrats would be to establish benchmarks to periodically measure the bailout's performance.

German finance ministry spokesman said on Wednesday that the size of the bailout fund will not be increased, according to Reuters.

This explains why it let the congressional bailout funds be used for equity purchases and not toxic debt.

Listen to what BB&T Bank's chief executive told analysts in a conference call shortly after the bailout passed.

Market sentiment was unchanged amid signs that the automaker bailout is now in the hand of the Senate.

Irish Enterprise Minister Batt O'Keeffe said a bailout has not been discussed and rejected the assertion that there is a "crisis. "

Whether to structure an even bigger bailout will likely fall to the next president. Neither Sen. Barack Obama nor Sen.

Most of the Occupy Wall Street protesters probably don't know that they, as taxpayers, actually made money from the bank bailout.

Most of the Occupy Wall Street protesters probably don't know that they, as taxpayers, actually made money from the bank bailout.

With different doomsday scenarios being batted around the meeting rooms, some participants felt the government would blink and do a bailout.

The White House and Congress are being buried under a mountain of protest at any further bailout.

The International Monetary Fund used to be the bailout king.

Providing money for a global bailout plan would help end a longstanding debate over how Japan should put its huge foreign reserves to use.

Airline stocks would fall sharply, with much depending on whether governments sounded open to the idea of a bailout.

Last month, European leaders unveiled a bailout package they hoped would appease the markets, but it's fallen well short of its goals.

McCain's been an advocate of deregulation most of his career, but Thursday he endorsed the biggest bailout in history. . .

Also, how were the banks able to reacquire so much wealth so soon in order to repay the gov't. the bailout funds?

The defeat of the bailout plan means that everyone is likely to be back at work later this week.

A bailout, however, does nothing to fix the misguided policies that have generated Greece's existing debt and ongoing deficits.

"We're not asking for a bailout, we're not asking for financial help from anyone, " Papandreou told reporters in Washington yesterday.

Either all 17 euro-zone parliaments will pass the next bailout for Greece, he says, 'or Greece will have to default.

'If the opposition comes to the table and accepts the (bailout) agreement, then there is no need for a referendum, ' Mr. Papandreou said.

This was a more extensive bailout than most countries pursued.

The whole bailout process this past year was characterized by no oversight, no limits, no concerns, no understanding, and no common sense.

Neither Obama nor McCain have had much public influence on the Congressional bailout.

Any signs of depositor panic could force eurozone leaders to make critical bailout decisions without a Greek government in place.

If private markets lost faith in, say, Italy or Belgium, even the enlarged bailout fund probably wouldn't be big enough to rescue them.

The British government has unveiled a second bailout plan for its ailing banks.

The situation is not even close to sustainable, so absent a bailout Greece will default on its debts.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Stocks rose Friday morning after European leaders agreed to a bailout program for debt-burdened Greece.

He sees this as a necessary step to implement an EU bailout deal on which the country depends.

In support of this turnaround came the preliminary bailout plan for Greece and the required recapitalization of the banks.

Portugal has come under quiet pressure from other European governments over several months to take a bailout, but Mr. Socrates has resisted.

Then it took Mr Bernanke two attempts and a collapse in the Dow to persuade Congress to approve emergency bailout funds.

There has been mounting pressure for it to follow in the footsteps of Greece and Ireland and seek an international bailout.

The EUR remains resilient as expectations of a second bailout package continue to grow.

When it decided to not bailout US automakers, the Senate told working Americans to drop dead.

European leaders have welcomed Ireland's request for a bailout package from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund.

And while we managed to avoid large direct bailout costs (a fact not appreciated in public debate), we might not be lucky next time.

The U. S. financial-industry bailout also limits compensation at participating firms.

So far, Athens' pleas for easier bailout terms have fallen on deaf ears in Europe.

In keeping with the pattern in Greece and Ireland, everyone so far denies that a Portuguese bailout is in the works.

Don't they see that their commitment to bailout all public debts feeds market speculation?

Then another government's bailout may be necessary to save the banks.

The ranks of the jobless have been growing, while big financial firms that got taxpayer bailout money have been thriving.

Greece moved closer to a bailout Thursday, requesting aid talks with the International Monetary Fund and the European Union.

To push back against that contagion, the euro zone agreed to a wide expansion of its 440 billion bailout fund.

Dubai came close to default last month until Abu Dhabi stepped in with a $10 billion bailout.

Because of AIG's dire straits, the government has invested so much bailout money that it now holds a stake of almost 80% of the company.

After a government bailout and restructuring, the company's 18 to return to Wall Street, the stock sought after by investors.

Jesse Wang, CIC's executive vice president, said responsibility for a bailout lay with the European Union.

A bailout of Portugal is widely expected but a similar rescue for Spain would stretch EU resources to the limit.

The Fed's actions, combined with the federal government's bailout bills and stimulus packages, have struck a nerve in the American people.

Now Y-5 is widely used for training , bailout training , sports, cargo transport and agro .

Building confidence in his administration's bank-bailout plan is key, as is improving overall consumer and investor psychology.

The bleeding in the stock market stopped only after rumors trickled out about a huge bailout plan being readied by the federal government.

But over the last few months, the Chinese have been the Chris Christie of the European bailout.

This gave them the confidence to open up their wallets to help augment the government's bailout program.

Such a rule would end the erratic bailout policy that leads to crises.

Investors had driven bond yields to records as they speculated that the European Union will bailout Ireland.

One thing that is quite disconcerting is the strong denial of any bailout by Chinese officials.

Stocks plummeted in the spring after Greece required an emergency bailout to deal with its debt crisis.

France, fearful that rising bailout costs could jeopardize its own triple-A credit rating, dropped its objections.

A more controversial proposal would have Treasury becoming a shareholder in firms assisted via the bailout.

Late on Oct. 31, Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou threw a wrench into the works by saying he would call a referendum on the bailout.

When GE Capital exited from the U. S. government's bailout program last year, it quickly found a new financial backer: a Chinese bank.

Deutsche Bank AG, Germany's largest bank by assets, said over the weekend that it won't tap the bailout package.

In the absence of a bailout from the World Bank, the country will have to overhaul its economy and trim its budget.

First, Greek lawmakers must approve more austerity measures in exchange for a new bailout, and it's by no means certain they will do so.

Through the bailout process, Seoul reshaped the domestic financial landscape by guiding various mergers among lenders.

If the country requires help, it will join Greece and Ireland as the third member of the European Union to tap its neighbors for a bailout.

As the plan stands, it should be viewed as a fiscal bailout and therefore Usd positive.

Stocks worldwide have been rattled in recent days as investors fear Ireland will become the latest European country to need a bailout.

The Australian stockmarket, among the few global exchanges to be open when the bailout was confirmed, rose by 1. 2%.

Nevertheless, the bailout did not cause the crisis of 2008.

Might bond-market vigilantes try to force a similar bailout provision for other precariously balanced euro-zone members?

The break saves GM from having to pay taxes associated with its bailout.

And his administration is just now going over fresh requests for multiple billions in bailout cash from ailing automakers.

We expect markets to be focused on incoming news surrounding the bailout plan keeping, FX range bound.

European leaders, in negotiating an expanded Greek bailout, confirmed that investors in its bonds would take losses.

The bailout did not require upfront money from the government, and the world avoided an even bigger financial crisis.

Quick action by the FDIC could help to press Congress into agreeing to Treasury secretary Hank Paulson's bailout plan for the banks.

You have to turn to much bigger initiatives, like war and defense, to get beyond this chump change and approach the bailout figure.

The trend's noticeable in Europe, and particularly Germany, the country on the hook to fund the biggest chunk of the EU bailout.

The bank was forced to take the bailout funds in October under the government's Troubled Asset Relief Program.

Many lawmakers who voted yes warned of a financial catastrophe if the bailout goes down again.

But the finance minister of the newly elected socialist government, George Papaconstantinou, insists no request for a bailout is on the way.

Each car they buy will mean a little less bailout money that we'll have to come up with.

JP Morgan did not mention any plans to repay the government's bailout money in today's results.

So, Secretary Geithner, you're one of the founding fathers of Bailout Nation.

There's widespread public hostility to the bailout in other parts of the euro area.

The Usd fell in the Asian session, as the prospects of a quick bailout diminished.

A recovery on Wall Street whose stocks up 270 points with investors calmed by the prospects of a bailout for automakers.

A broader financial crash will result, and it won't be contained by an easily affordable bailout.

Both candidates supported the bailout, and both call for tax cuts and policing of markets, but in tenor, they were polar opposites.

Markets took the resignation as a sign that debt-heavy Portugal has given up its year-long battle to avoid a bailout.

Editor's note: A previous version of this story erroneously stated that Ford Motor Co. received a federal bailout. This has been corrected.

In recent weeks AIG and its multi-billion dollar taxpayer bailout have become targets of public fury and frustration.

Both Bernanke and Paulson agreed, but said without a comprehensive bailout all consumers will suffer.

The plan would include strong oversight of the bailout program and ban excessive compensation for executives at failing firms.

The apparent failure of the auction helps explain why AIG has asked the government to restructure the terms of its bailout.

On the campaign trail, the presidential candidates called for a renewed effort to pass the bailout.

The influence of government bailout on a financial company was studied microscopically by developing an incentive model.

Portugal recently requested a bailout from its European peers to escape ruinous debt-financing costs.

Last week, the bank waived its rights to buy warrants that the government received as part of the financial bailout.

Obama, as a senator, voted against the initial bailout of AIG, the reckless insurance giant.

AS job losses mount and bailout costs run into the trillions, the social costs of the economic downturn become clearer.

The government bailout programs reestablished the basic confidence in economic development that had been lost in the financial crisis.

The USA is $10 trillion in the red now and that will rise to 11 trillion as a result of the banking bailout.

Obama echoed McCain's call for swift congressional action on a bailout plan that includes safeguards for taxpayers and homeowners.

The eurozone countries put together a near-$1 trillion bailout fund after tumbling close to the financial abyss.

The European bailout provided assurances that the euro would remain intact and countries would have access to loans.

Conservative Republicans criticized the auto bailout, but President-elect Barack Obama called President Bush's move a "necessary step. "

We may say, Wow, that bailout money must have done something wonderful.

Not any time soon -- the ECB's bailout package makes sure of that.

On the contrary, it is associated with greater output loss and increases the ultimate fiscal costs of a bailout.

China desperately needs Europe to bailout its banks at taxpayer expense to save the global economy from imploding.

These debts corrode your life as it's happening. And no bailout later in life can reverse time.