How can I get U.S. bailout money for my new business? [more inside]
posted by msoffab on Apr 24, 2009 - 8 answers

Please help me find facts about the banking/economic crisis and the impact of the financial meltdown for a demonstration against the no-strings-attached billions for banks while Americans suffer. Your help will be rewarded with a just and fair financial system that works for all Americans and not just Wall Street. Thanks so much! [more inside]
posted by willie11 on Apr 1, 2009 - 2 answers

Geitner's latest: If the problem is the spread between fantasy values that allow a bank to say it's solvent and market values that say it's insolvent, how does a plan that protects private investors from most but not all of the downside get them to overpay for these assets, narrowing the spread?
posted by markcmyers on Mar 27, 2009 - 14 answers

So where is all this bailout money actually GOING? It winds up in someone's pockets eventually, right? [more inside]
posted by scaryblackdeath on Mar 23, 2009 - 8 answers

Why is all this money going to industry and commerce, not the citizenry? [more inside]
posted by turgid dahlia on Mar 19, 2009 - 19 answers

Have the recipients of the $2 trillion dollars been identified yet? I know Bloomberg was attempting to find out where the Fed sent the money, but I haven't heard anything since. [more inside]
posted by whatgorilla on Mar 11, 2009 - 3 answers

What happens if I default on unsecured debt? [more inside]
posted by hardbop on Feb 10, 2009 - 9 answers

Who paid for the bailout during the Great Depression? [more inside]
posted by shawnzam on Feb 4, 2009 - 8 answers

How is daily life going to change over the next few years - because of the Slow Depression? [more inside]
posted by raikkohamilonso on Jan 29, 2009 - 47 answers

Can I track the OMX Government Relief Index using Google Finance?
posted by kidbritish on Jan 10, 2009 - 4 answers

Has anyone heard back from Six Apart about their TypePad Journalist Bailout Program? [more inside]
posted by veggieboy on Dec 22, 2008 - 5 answers

Okay, don't know much 'bout economics, so can somebody please explain to me in simple terms how, with the US treasury handing out trillion-dollar bailouts like lollipops, the unemployment rate skyrocketing (thereby removing the real wealth generators from the economy) and no country in the world crazy enough to lend us a cent -- HOW can we possibly not wind up with hyper (and by hyper, I mean Weimar-style) inflation, sooner rather than later?
posted by Olden_Bittermann on Dec 11, 2008 - 37 answers

If stocks continue to rise throughout the week and reach the previous point or "close enough", what reason is there for a bail out? [more inside]
posted by Mardigan on Sep 30, 2008 - 18 answers

I'm having a hard time understanding just what is happening to the US economy and why. I'm completely in the dark, I'm not familiar with the terminology, and I'm afraid. [more inside]
posted by ranunculus on Sep 25, 2008 - 14 answers

I need help writing a letter to my congressmen about The Bailout! [more inside]
posted by MiggySawdust on Sep 22, 2008 - 17 answers

Who will the current bailout plan benefit and how? [more inside]
posted by jeanmari on Sep 22, 2008 - 14 answers

What is the most effective way of expressing my outrage to my government? [more inside]
posted by toastchee on Sep 21, 2008 - 23 answers