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Buyer beware

By David Heath

New consumer agency powerless against dishonest auto lending practices

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Report: Car loans include billions in undisclosed charges

By Keith Epstein

Virginians protest General Electric over foreclosures

By Amy Biegelsen and Emma Schwartz

Investigative armada unleashed on sub-prime mortgage mess

By Andrew Green

The roots of the financial crisis: Who is to blame?

By John Dunbar and David Donald

TARP helped stabilize financial institutions, but future success questioned

By Laurel Adams

The government’s Troubled Asset Relief Program, established to stabilize weak financial institutions, faces challenges in getting repayments

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Treasury Dept. scolded for rejecting anti-fraud measures in bank capital program

By David Heath and Julie Vorman

Treasury’s financial reporting for TARP questioned

By Laurel Adams

August 6, 2010

By Julie Vorman

Newsmaker interview: Bailout watchdog warns of "doomsday cycle"

By Peter H. Stone

Investigative Reporting Workshop launches BankTracker

By Josh Israel

Want to know what kind of financial shape your local bank is in? The answer may well be in BankTracker, a project that has just been launche

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Bank regulators could use 'war games' as crisis prevention training

By Julie Vorman

TARP helped stabilize financial institutions, but future success questioned

By Laurel Adams

Treasury Dept. scolded for rejecting anti-fraud measures in bank capital program

By David Heath and Julie Vorman

Newsmaker interview: Bailout watchdog warns of "doomsday cycle"

By Peter H. Stone

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Cash stimulates auto sales, real estate not so much

By Joe Eaton

Americans, it seems, may prefer new wheels to new homes. Compared to the wildly popular auto trade-in program “cash for clunkers,” the $8,0

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Did 'cash for clunkers' run dry or not?

By Joe Eaton

Some candidates against government spending had federal contracts, tax breaks

By Kimberly Leonard and Aaron Mehta

Some anti-spending candidates’ businesses have government contracts, tax breaks in their past

By Kimberly Leonard and Aaron Mehta

Few stimulus-financed energy projects were ‘shovel ready’

By Alexandra Duszak

Auto dealers maneuver for exemption in financial reform bill

By Michael Hudson

In Arizona, Hector Maldonado says he ran into trouble with his bosses because he objected to what he claims was his employer’s habit of faki

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With 6 car dealers in Congress, industry revs up horsepower on Capitol Hill

By Kimberly Leonard

Borrower Nightmares: Soldiers battle car dealers over inflated prices, loan terms

By Michael Hudson

Auto dealers spend big to stay out of financial reform

By Joe Eaton

Buyer beware

By David Heath

Bailout watchdog probes suspected TARP fraud at 64 banks

The government watchdog charged with overseeing the $700 billion bank bailout fund is claiming broad success in cracking down on individual

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Newsmaker interview: Bailout watchdog warns of "doomsday cycle"

By Peter H. Stone

August 6, 2010

By Julie Vorman

TARP helped stabilize financial institutions, but future success questioned

By Laurel Adams

Treasury Dept. scolded for rejecting anti-fraud measures in bank capital program

By David Heath and Julie Vorman

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Treasury Dept. scolded for rejecting anti-fraud measures in bank capital program

By David Heath and Julie Vorman

A senior House Republican scolded the Treasury Department on Wednesday for rejecting recommendations from a government watchdog to prevent f

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TARP helped stabilize financial institutions, but future success questioned

By Laurel Adams

Bank regulators could use 'war games' as crisis prevention training

By Julie Vorman

Newsmaker interview: Bailout watchdog warns of "doomsday cycle"

By Peter H. Stone

Investigative Reporting Workshop launches BankTracker

By Josh Israel

FDIC proposes big bank, brokerage liquidation procedure

By Julie Vorman

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. sketched out today a set of proposed regulations for liquidating in an orderly way any big banks, broker

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FDIC Chief got Bank of America loans while working on its rescue

By Keith Epstein and David Heath

Financial reform this week: Will Fed bow to banks' demand to keep swipe fees high?

By Julie Vorman

Reform reading: Bailout paradox in Nov. 2 election

New systemic risk regulatory council sets goals

By Jeremy Borden

Considering the differences between two billion-dollar bailouts

By Kat Aaron

The auto industry bailout has stalled in the Senate, putting the fate of Detroit’s Big Three and their employees in the hands of the White H

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Credit rater says new consumer agency is much-needed "medicine" for banks

By Shirley Gao

Democrats demand ouster of regulator for not being tough enough with banks

By Shirley Gao

Reform reading: Bailout paradox in Nov. 2 election

FACT CHECK: Crossroads GPS twists facts in Senate ads

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Auto dealers should be happy

By Bill Buzenberg

One of the biggest winners in the new financial services overhaul bill are the nation’s auto dealerships, which are now exempt from oversigh

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Commentary: The mega-banks behind the meltdown

By Bill Buzenberg

WaMu bank executives aware of rampant fraud

By David Heath

WaMu bank executives aware of rampant fraud

By David Heath

GOP candidates in foreclosure capital say government not the solution to crisis

By Michael Hudson

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