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		<title>Citi Shareholders Show Rage at Annual Meeting</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BusinessWeek &#8211; The anger was evident at Citigroup&#8217;s annual meeting on Apr. 21, where shareholders took turns at the microphone to object to how the bank has been operating. The meeting is usually a well-attended affair lasting many hours as shareholders air their grievances, and Tuesday&#8217;s gathering was as somber and full of ire as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rich G7 can&#8217;t go it alone to calm economic storm</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; Finance ministers from rich nations, when they meet on Friday, will face less economic turbulence than at their last gathering two months ago, but they recognize they need developing nations to step up spending to revive the world economy. Acknowledging the growing economic might of developed nations, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner scheduled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama:  Small Business Loans and Refinancing are Keys to Economic Recovery</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; President Obama met with Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Friday, after which he told reporters there are &#8220;glimmers of hope across the economy.&#8221; The meeting, which was also attended by Sheila Bair from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and Mary Schapiro, head of the Securities [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Geithner May Oust Executives at Banks Needing &#8216;Exceptional&#8217; Aid</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg &#8211; Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said he&#8217;s prepared to oust executives and directors at banks that require &#8220;exceptional&#8221; assistance from the U.S. government. &#8220;If in the future, banks need exceptional assistance in order to get through this, then we will make sure that assistance comes,&#8221; while ensuring taxpayers are protected, Geithner said yesterday in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hedge fund paid Obama adviser Summers $5.2 million</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#8211; Lawrence Summers, a top economic adviser to U.S. President Barack Obama, was paid about $5.2 million (3.48 million pounds) by hedge fund D.E. Shaw in the past year, financial disclosure forms released by the White House showed on Friday. Summers, a former U.S. Treasury secretary and Harvard University president, also was paid $2.7 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Uncle Sam?s hedge fund is risk for economic recovery</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fort Worth Business Press &#8211; The rescue of the American financial system proposed by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is, in all but name, a gigantic hedge fund. The government would lend vast sums to private investors to enable them to buy loss-ridden assets at discounts from banks with the prospect of making sizable profits. If [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Geithner Wants Federal Supervision of Hedge Funds, Private Equity Firms</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; If Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner gets his way, hedge funds and private equity firms will be placed under the supervision of the federal government. &#160; &#8220;Over the past 18 months, we have faced the most severe global financial crisis in generations,&#8221; Geithner said at the House Financial Services Committee hearing on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama And Merkel In Agreement Ahead Of G20 &#8211; Germany</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[EasyBourse.com &#8211; The U.S. and Germany are going &#34;in the same direction&#34; ahead of next week&#8217;s G20 summit, a spokesman for Chancellor Angela Merkel said Friday amid reports of rifts between Europe and the U.S. There are &#34;no points of contention here between us and the U.S. government. For both of us, and our position [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Treasury chief seeking power over hedge funds</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Houston Chronicle &#8211; Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner will ask Congress to bring large hedge funds, private-equity firms and derivatives markets under federal supervision for the first time as part of a revamp of U.S. financial rules. The Treasury chief will present his proposed framework at a House Financial Services Committee hearing in Washington today. Under [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Outlines Toxic Asset Plan &#8211; Pressure is on Private Investors, Hedge Funds</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; The Obama administration has unveiled its much anticipated program aimed at clearing toxic assets from the books of U.S. banks and finding a middle ground between inaction and nationalization.&#160; By financing the purchase of up to $1 trillion in illiquid real estate assets, the government is hoping that its Public-Private Investment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Geithner&#8217;s Toxic Asset Plan: Wall Street Finally Cheers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Time.com &#8211; To stop the economy&#8217;s deflationary spiral, President Obama and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner need to get toxic assets off banks&#8217; balance sheets so the banks can start lending again. With much fanfare and after much delay, Geithner on Monday unveiled the details of the government&#8217;s &#34;public-private&#34; collaborative plan to make that happen. There [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Seeks Investors in Plan to Buy Illiquid Assets</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg &#8211; The Obama administration will announce details of a plan today to expand the $700 billion rescue of the financial system that will rely on enticing private investors to buy the troubled assets clogging banks&#8217; balance sheets. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, who will unveil the Public Private Investment Program today, has crafted an approach [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Latest economic recovery plan hits $1 trillion</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[10 News &#8211; Investors will be listening closely to details of the $1 trillion toxic asset-purchase program to be announced Monday as the Obama administration seeks to provide enough information to satisfy markets and avoid the kind of stock meltdown seen last month. Then, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner disappointed by giving only broad outlines of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Treasury Swoops to Recoup $165 Million in AIG Bonus Payouts</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Geithner Bad Bank Alternative May Rely on Loans to Hedge Funds</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg &#8211; Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner&#8217;s financial-rescue plan may be doomed if he doesn&#8217;t offer low-cost loans to hedge funds and other investors to help them buy toxic assets weighing down bank balance sheets. Creating a &#8220;bad bank&#8221; or &#8220;aggregator bank&#8221; that would use federal funds to acquire and warehouse the assets, as some have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama drops &#8220;car czar&#8221; idea</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Stimulus Package Approved by Senate</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) &#8211; President Barack Obama&#8217;s $838 billion stimulus plan was approved by the U.S. Senate as part of a plan of action the Senate hopes will revive the collapsing US economy. $100 billion is to be alotted to hedge funds or other investors, giving them incentive to purchase so-called toxic assets. President [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SMU grad is the go-to guy for seekers of bailout funds</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dallas Morning News &#8211; It&#8217;s every SMU grad&#8217;s dream: to be young, handsome, and closely involved with deciding how to spend $700 billion. Attention, Class of 2000: Your fellow alum, Jeb Mason, is living it. Mr. Mason, 32, has spent his entire career inside the Bush administration. His first assignment: running the mailroom for President [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Government provides record aid package to AIG</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Times and Democrat &#8211; In a record bailout of a private company, the government on Monday provided a new $150 billion financial-rescue package to troubled insurance giant American International Group, including $40 billion for partial ownership. The action, announced by the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department, was taken as it became increasingly clear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Can Hedge Funds Expect from President Obama?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York Times Blogs &#8211; After pouring money into Barack Obama&#8217;s campaign, what can hedge funds and their executives expect from the new president? If history is any exmaple, says FINAlternatives, they shouldn&#8217;t expect a cuddly relationship. Mr. Obama didn&#8217;t appear sympathetic to the industry on the campaign trail, the publication noted, calling John McCain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Money-Laundering Risk Of Hedge Funds Gauged</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington Post &#8211; Seven years ago the Patriot Act required every financial institution to establish a program to combat money-laundering. But the roughly $2 trillion hedge-fund industry today remains free of any such government restrictions, and this week the Treasury Department formally withdrew its once proposed rules. &#34;Hedge funds do represent some risk because their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bracewell &amp; Giuliani LLP Announce Legislation Task Force</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) &#8211; Bracewell &#38; Giuliani LLP today announced that it has formed a multi-disciplinary Task Force to guide financial institutions, private investment funds, institutional investors and other market participants through the legislative, regulatory and enforcement challenges posed by the Troubled Asset Relief Act and other impending actions by Congress, the Treasury Department, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The End of Wall Street as We Know It</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gotham Gazette &#8211; The turbulent financial market events of recent days demonstrably signal the end of Wall Street as we know it. More uncertainty lies ahead, on Wall Street but also for the national economy. How is this affecting New York and what will it take to get the economy moving again? Six months ago, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Court lets NJ invest pension money in hedge funds</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Newsday &#8211; A state appeals court has allowed New Jersey to move ahead with a plan to invest some state pension money into hedge funds. The court ruled Friday, rejecting a challenge by the Communications Workers of America and the New Jersey Education Association, two of the largest and most powerful unions of public employees [...]]]></description>
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