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Treasury’s Investment Return on TARP

June 9, 2009 · 1 Comment

By Joe Chase of IndexBeating.com

Ten banks have been approved to repay their TARP money.  Do investors think these companies are ready to pay the money back? (more…)

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GM Files for Chapter 11, What Next?

June 1, 2009 · Leave a Comment

By Joe Chase of IndexBeating.com

Now that GM has officially filed for Chapter 11, the old poll asking what will happen to GM has partially been answered.  I want to know what everyone thinks they should do (more…)

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Market Movers March 2nd, 2009

March 3, 2009 · Leave a Comment

By Joe Chase of IndexBeating.com

Wes Davis and I will now be making (hopefully) daily posts about the biggest influences on the markets that day (the biggest impact on the markets, not on the actual economy).  Starting with yesterday, a day the Dow was down 327.49: (more…)

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Let the Free Market Run Auto Makers

February 18, 2009 · 6 Comments

By Joe Chase of IndexBeating.com

The behemoth auto manufacturers GM, Ford, and Chrysler, are back in Washington asking for more money.  They will keep doing this until taxpayers get so fed up that congress stops giving them money.  They took billions (more…)

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TARP Report Card

February 2, 2009 · Leave a Comment

By Joe Chase of IndexBeating.com

It has been three months since the Treasury started buying equity stakes in US banks as a part of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, which we have come to call the (more…)

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A Transparent TARP

January 29, 2009 · Leave a Comment

By Joe Chase of IndexBeating.com

The Treasury has made public several agreements it has made under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP).  I posted links to pdf versions of all the agreements on the right side of the page towards the bottom.  It (more…)

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What’s up with Chrysler and Fiat?

January 20, 2009 · Leave a Comment

By Joe Chase of IndexBeating.com

Chrysler and Fiat just announced that they are partnering up in a non-cash transaction that will give Fiat a 35% stake in the American auto maker, and give Chrysler access to technology and (more…)

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NASDAQ Provides Index to Track TARP Participants

January 9, 2009 · 2 Comments

By Joe Chase of IndexBeating.com

NASDAQ has begun tracking the performance of companies who take funding from programs such as the TARP.  The index, known as the Government Relief Index (QGRI), came out (more…)

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