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Entries from DCist tagged with 'bailout'

October 3, 2008

Photo by afagen Remember Monday, when the U.S. House refused to pass a $700 billion bailout package and everyone kinda freaked out? Well a little less than an hour ago they came together for another vote, this time on the Senate's version of the deal, and voted for it. We can't help but feel like the strangest part about the affirmative vote is not actually that it happened, but that even though it probably......

Continue Reading "House Relents, Approves 'Financial Rescue'"

September 29, 2008

The U.S. House has voted down the bailout package, 205-228. By and large, Republicans voted against the bill, while Democrats voted for it, though the Democrats voted for it by a rather small margin. The Dow Jones Industrial Average has already dropped more than 500 points, just shy of five percent, since the news broke. Presumably, the House leadership will start working on a new bill, but given that the Republicans wouldn't vote for......

Continue Reading "Bailout FAIL!"

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