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Bailout Votes This Week

The House is scheduled to vote on the financial sector bailout package later today. If it passes, the Senate will take it up on Wednesday.

The package itself retains the core Paulson proposal to give Treasury the authority to purchase $700 billion in problem mortgages held by banks and other financial institutions. The goal of the plan is to restore confidence in these institutions by eliminating this source of fear and uncertainty for the next two years. The ultimate cost of this plan to taxpayers will depend on how much further home prices fall. Some observers believe the taxpayer will be …

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admin2019-02-06T18:06:06+00:00September 29, 2008|

Congressional Overview

We are nearing the finish line for the 110^th Congress with more on the table than when we started nearly two years ago.

None of the 12 bills to fund the government have been adopted. Tax provisions that expired at the end of 2007 remain to be extended. And the collapse of the subprime mortgage market that began a year ago with the failure of several hedge funds has grown into a full fledged credit crisis that, according to the Administration, threatens to harm the entire economy.

It appears Congress will stay in through next week and will have to address the …

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admin2019-02-06T18:06:06+00:00September 26, 2008|

Bailout Takes Center Stage

Our friends at the Treasury spent the weekend working primarily with the House Financial Services Committee to refine the Administration’s emergency plan to purchase hundreds of billions of dollars worth of mortgage backed securities.

According to Bloomberg, the scope of the proposal has expanded to include other troubled assets, including credit card debts and car loans. Members of Congress are also weighing in, seeking to add additional provisions such as limits on executive compensation and the cramdown of loan balances under bankruptcy.

The goal of these talks is to get …

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admin2019-02-06T18:06:07+00:00September 22, 2008|

Stimulus Getting More Ink

Several papers are reporting what we have been hearing for the past week – a possible second economic stimulus package is in the early stages of discussion. As the Wall Street Journal reported:

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) said he had spoken to the Democratic leadership in the House of Representatives about a second economic-stimulus package, in another attempt to bring the country out of what increasingly seems to be a severe economic downturn.

If Congress takes up another stimulus package, it will likely be in September, not July, and it should include …

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admin2019-02-06T18:06:08+00:00July 11, 2008|

President to Sign Fiscal Stimulus

The President is expected to sign the fiscal stimulus package on Wednesday. After two weeks of hand ringing and posturing, the Senate finally adopted a slightly modified version of the bill the House and the President originally had negotiated.

As sent to the President, the package would:

Send checks of $600 per filer and $300 per child to families with joint incomes of less than $150,000. Actual amounts will be calculated based on income tax filings for 2007, so expect the actual checks to be in the mail by late spring and early summer.
Encourage new business investment by increasing the limit on …

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admin2019-02-06T18:43:57+00:00February 11, 2008|