By: Los Angeles Times
Tom Hamburger, Times Staff Writer
When Congress voted last week to bail out Wall Street banks and investment houses, members were also indirectly voting to repair damage lawmakers themselves had caused during a decades-long era of deregulation.
As the blame game...
By: Christian Science Monitor
Peter Grier Staff writer of The Christian Science
Wall Street now runs through Washington. Well, maybe not literally. But the Oct. 3 enactment of a massive rescue bill, plus the government bailouts that preceded it, may have changed fundamentally the relationship between the US...
By: Investor's Business Daily
JED GRAHAM
The House passed an emergency plan to stabilize the financial system on Friday, paving the way for what could be the biggest government intervention into the private sector since the Great Depression. But stocks sold off amid...
By: Los Angeles Times
Richard Simon, Nicole Gaouette, Times Staff Writers
The House of Representatives approved the $700-billion Wall Street bailout Friday, setting in motion the biggest government intervention in the financial system since the Great Depression. President Bush quickly signed the bill,...
By: Los Angeles Times
Julie Cart, Times Staff Writer
The renewable-energy tax incentives tucked into the financial bailout package passed by the House on Friday include billions of dollars in breaks for old-fashioned fossil-fuel processes such as liquefying coal and squeezing...
By: Los Angeles Times
Jim Puzzanghera, Tom Hamburger and Richard Simon, Times S
Lobbying for the $700-billion financial rescue plan reached fever pitch as the hours ticked down toward today's climactic vote in the House, with powerful interest groups orchestrating last-minute appeals from constituents back...
By: Newsday (New York)
The U.S. House of Representatives is slated to take up the Bush administration's $700-billion financial bailout plan again, and while most observers believe the package - with new sweeteners - has a good chance of passing, there...
By: Targeted News Service
Targeted News Service
World Wildlife Fund issued the following news release:
Sustainability is no longer just a matter of corporate social responsibility (CSR), it is a fundamental business proposition, James Leape, Director General of WWF...
By: Newsday (New York)
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON- After one spectacular failure, the $700-billion financial industry bailout found a second life yesterday, winning lopsided passage in the Senate and gaining ground in the House, where Republican opposition...
By: PR Newswire
NEW YORK -- U.S. public companies are becoming increasingly more responsive to good corporate governance practices and to the interests of their shareholders, as exemplified by the rise of majority voting, the decline of both...
By: Ascribe Newswire
Faith-based and socially responsible investors commend Wal-Mart for taking action to put an end to child labor in Uzbekistan. Wal-Mart announced that it has "instructed its global supply base to cease sourcing cotton and cotton...
By: The Economist
Tainted milk kills children?and harms China?s image abroad WITH each passing day the news about China?s tainted-milk scandal gets worse. It started with reports in the Chinese press on September 10th about tainted baby-formula...
By: Los Angeles Times
Richard Simon, Jim Puzzanghera and Nicole Gaouette, Times
Senate leaders reached consensus late Tuesday on a revised $700-billion financial rescue plan that they hoped would clear the chamber in a vote today and ward off another upheaval in global markets that could threaten economies...
By: Los Angeles Times
Janet Hook, Times Staff Writer
When Nancy Pelosi was sworn in as the first Democratic House speaker in 12 years, she promised to reach across the aisle to Republicans, to be "speaker of the House -- the entire House." In tribute to that spirit, she dressed in...
By: USA TODAY
Richard Wolf, Kathy Kiely, Fredreka Schouten and John Fritze
WASHINGTON -- When President Bush came on television at 7:35 a.m. Monday to urge passage of a $700 billion Wall Street rescue plan, fellow Republicans working out in the House gymnasium jeered his remarks.
Hours later, when...
By: Los Angeles Times
Peter G. Gosselin, James Puzzanghera, Times Staff Writers
If the House vote against the $700-billion financial rescue proposal stands, Americans may be in for a test of free-market economics the likes of which the country hasn't seen since the early 1930s. With the Treasury Department...
By: PR Newswire
LOS ANGELES,-- As announced on America's Top Coach.com, the bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac has earned the highly paid CEOs behind these tanked companies a tie for 1st place in the "First Annual Corporate Greed Awards",...
By: USA TODAY
John Waggoner, Sue Kirchhoff and Barbara Hagenbaugh
They met. They argued. They wheeled and dealed. Now Congress has a tentative agreement on how to bail out the nation's financial system, and leaders are promising approval by midweek. The $700 billion question: Will it work? If...
By: USA TODAY
Del Jones and Edward Iwata
The draft of the government's controversial $700 billion financial rescue plan released Sunday makes it clear that CEOs of firms seeking the bailout are about to have their pay packages capped. The proposal seeks to rein in...
By: Los Angeles Times
Jill U. Adams, Special to The Times
Babies in China are obviously at risk from tainted infant formula. More than 54,000 children in that nation have been sickened and at least four have died in recent weeks after drinking contaminated milk products. But despite...
By: Los Angeles Times
From Times Wire Services
The world pumped up emissions of the chief human-produced global warming gas last year, setting a course that could push beyond leading scientists' projected worst-case scenario, international researchers said Thursday.
The new...
By: Los Angeles Times
Jim Puzzanghera, Times Staff Writer
There's one thing that angry lawmakers and their constituents agree about the Wall Street bailout being crafted by Congress: Executives at teetering companies the government helps steady shouldn't walk away with millions of...
By: Buffalo News (New York)
By Jerry Zremski - NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU CHIEF
The nightmare of environmentalists in the Great Lakes -- the shipment of massive quantities of the lakes' fresh water to parched states or countries -- is far less likely to come true thanks to a vote Tuesday in the House.
By a...
By: USA TODAY
Elizabeth Weise
New Zealand says one of China's most popular candies -- a kind frequently sold at Asian markets in the United States -- contains dangerous levels of the industrial chemical melamine.
By: Newsday (New York)
COMBINED WIRE SERVICES
DEMOCRATS won a key concession yesterday from the White House on its proposed financial bailout and sought to drastically slash the $700-billion size of the rescue plan, saying administration officials could return to Congress...
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