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GMAC Seeks Bank Status for Rescue Funding, Sources Say

GMAC, the financing arm of General Motors, is in negotiations to become a bank holding company, a shift that would allow it to take advantage of the government's $700 billion financial rescue package, according to sources familiar with the matter.

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29.10.2008 15:49:59 - washingtonpost.com - Business

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Capitalism in Crisis

As this year's financial woes spread beyond Wall Street to engulf much of the world's economy, the contours of debate over the crisis have also broadened. First narrowly defined around loans and bailouts, the debate has morphed into a wholesale reconsideration of the capitalist model and free-mar...

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29.10.2008 14:15:42 - washingtonpost.com - Business

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Currency Conundrums

The 2008 financial crisis has prompted many analysts to speculate about the decline of major developed economies like the United States and Japan as hubs for global capital. Currency flows, however, tell a different story. As markets worldwide stumbled, foreign governments have poured money into ...

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29.10.2008 14:12:59 - washingtonpost.com - Business

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A Detroit Bankruptcy Beats a Bailout

Not content with $25 billion in government loans to retool factories for fuel-efficient cars, the auto industry is already back at the trough, this time angling for a taxpayer investment in the firm that would result from a merger of General Motors and Chrysler.

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29.10.2008 05:00:00 - washingtonpost.com - Business

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Waxman Seeks Bank Data On Use of Bailout Funds

Congressional investigators yesterday demanded that the nation's nine largest banks prove they are not using an emergency infusion of $125 billion in taxpayer funds to lavish their executives with wealthy bonuses.

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29.10.2008 05:00:00 - washingtonpost.com - Business

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Japan's Toyota, Hit Hard Now But Equipped to Steer Clear

TOKYO, Oct. 29 -- In Japan, the global financial crisis seems to have singled out some of the world's best-known and best-managed companies for an especially bloody thrashing.

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29.10.2008 05:00:00 - washingtonpost.com - Business

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Downturn Pummels Consumer Confidence

Consumer confidence dipped to its lowest level on record as Americans reacted with growing pessimism to financial uncertainty and widespread job losses, according to a survey released yesterday.

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29.10.2008 05:00:00 - washingtonpost.com - Business

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The World's Most Valuable Company

For a brief and bizarre time yesterday, Volkswagen was the world's most valuable company.

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29.10.2008 05:00:00 - washingtonpost.com - Business

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U.S. Markets Surge As Credit Starts to Thaw

Stocks skyrocketed nearly 11 percent yesterday in the second-biggest point gain ever for the Dow Jones industrial average, buoyed by signs of improving credit conditions and expectations that the Federal Reserve would slash a key interest rate today.

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29.10.2008 05:00:00 - washingtonpost.com - Business

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How They Would Change Health Care: Obama

BOSTON -- On the ninth floor of an office building just off the Boston Common, a group called Health Care for All runs a help line that, not long ago, got 40 calls a month. Today, the calls each month have swelled to 3,000, as people throughout Massachusetts phone in for guidance in navigating a...

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29.10.2008 05:00:00 - washingtonpost.com - Business

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GMAC Seeks Bank Status for Rescue Funding, Sources Say

Capitalism in Crisis

Currency Conundrums

A Detroit Bankruptcy Beats a Bailout

Waxman Seeks Bank Data On Use of Bailout Funds

Japan's Toyota, Hit Hard Now But Equipped to Steer Clear

Downturn Pummels Consumer Confidence

The World's Most Valuable Company

U.S. Markets Surge As Credit Starts to Thaw

How They Would Change Health Care: Obama

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