Obama's Coming Bank Grab?

Ben Johnson,FloydReports.com

If you have enjoyed owning a car company,you’re going to love getting voting representation in several banks nationwide. Barack Obama’s Treasury Department is already “monitoring”19 banks and may appoint new board members. The trouble? They took TARP money and have fallen behind on their payments. Almost as troubling,the [...]

Obama Takes Another Swipe at Banks

By Damian Paletta,WSJ

 Obama keeps attacking banks

President Barack Obama took another shot at large financial companies for lobbying against some of his proposals to curb Wall Street.

It struck us that the president has made a lot of similar statements lately,so we compiled the list of [...]

Obama continues war on Wall Street

By JIM KUHNHENN,AP

 Obama is still attacking Wall Street

President Barack Obama,eager to harness and redirect voter anger over bank bailouts,is ramping up his war on Wall Street.

Building on his own proposals and the work of the House,the president wants new federal government powers [...]

The ‘Responsibility’Tax

WSJ Opinion

 Obama is sending another mixed message to banks

The White House has spent months imploring banks to lend more money,so will President Obama’s new proposal to extract $117 billion from bank capital encourage new bank lending?

Just asking. Welcome to one more installment in Washington’s year-long [...]

Obama looks to Sweden for banks precedent

Edward Luce,Financial Times

Obama looking to Sweden for help

Long regarded in the US as a folly of Europeans,nationalisation is gaining rapid acceptance among Washington opinion-formers – and not just with Alan Greenspan,former Federal Reserve chairman. Perhaps stranger still,many of those talking about nationalising banks are Republicans.