The U.S. government has even made sizable profits from many of the temporary bailout loans and investments.
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Ireland and Portugal have also been given more time to repay their bailout loans but no details have been announced.
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For now, European finance officials have been providing bailout loans while encouraging nations such as Greece to undertake austerity measures.
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The Greek and Irish premiers will continue to press the rest to agree for easier terms on their bailout loans.
Greece's international lenders have left talks in Athens without a deal that would secure the next tranche of bailout loans for the country.
Ally, the former financial arm of General Motors, is still majority owned by the government because it hasn't paid back its crisis-era bailout loans.
Valuing saved barrels at the low end of credible estimates of their "external" cost could repay taxpayers' bailout loans, rebuild automakers' competitiveness, boost security and save carbon.
The euro zone's finance ministers convene Friday in Dublin, and topping the agenda is deciding whether to give Ireland and Portugal more time to repay their bailout loans.
An investment vehicle controlled by former American International Group chief Maurice (Hank) Greenberg claims the U.S. government singled out the insurer by taking a huge equity stake in return for bailout loans made during the 2008 financial crisis.
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Fannie and Freddie remain the two biggest drains on the government, which has been working to extricate itself from the 2008 bailout period when the Treasury and Federal Reserve pumped hundreds of billions in bailout loans into banks like Citigroup and Bank of America, insurer AIG and automakers General Motors and Chrysler.
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Then others, like the French and Spanish, would like rescue loans from the bailout funds to go directly to the banks rather than via the governments.
Maybe the Spanish team could be used as collateral for some loans from Germany to bailout the Spanish banks?
The lion's share of the bailout for Indonesia came in the form of loans, with maturities, conditions and compounding interest.
Under Dublin's and Lisbon's original bailout agreements, the average maximum maturity on their loans was 12.5 years.
Mr Gore claims the Bush plan could lead to a bailout as large as the savings-and-loans debacle, when the government had to step in to help people who had made poor investment choices.
Third, if the bailout loan ranks ahead of existing private-sector loans to the Spanish government, there is a risk that Spain will end up paying more to borrow from conventional commercial sources - which is precisely the opposite of what it wanted.
The data support the anecdotal evidence that lawmakers on Capitol Hill have railed against: Banks are hoarding the bailout money, even as they promise to make more loans.
This quarter, its own loans to Greece start to come due and euro-zone bailout funds will be used to repay the IMF.
Now that Spain looks to be in need of a full scale bailout - which to be credible would have to involve around 500bn euros of emergency loans (see my post Spain moves nearer to full-scale rescue) - the underwriting burden for Germany is looking very heavy.
When the savings and loans failed in the 1980s, the government looked for wrongdoing in connection with the bailout of the industry.
The first, which you will know about, has been the massive emergency bailout of banks by the European Central Bank, with the trillion euros of cheap three-year loans it has provided to them in the so-called LTRO.
Considering the banks that made foolish loans to dishonest borrowers, the prudent were victimized by both sides for their tax dollars paying for the bailout of banks made insolvent by those same borrowers.
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