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Get ready for the Toxic Asset Loan Factory. TALF, the U.S. government's effort to boost consumer lending, finally launches next week. The program - officially the Term Asset-Backed-Securities Loan Facility - is targeted at restarting the market banks use to fund credit-card, auto and other consumer loans. But...
At the heart of the program - and the biggest cause of complaints - is an effort to reignite the process by which most banks get the money they use to make consumer loans. To fund credit-card, auto and education lending, banks typically gather up loans they already have made and...
But sometime last year, the mechanism broke down. Investors backed away from all types of consumer credit after getting burned in the mortgage market. Less than $200 billion in asset-backed loans was securitized in 2008, down from an annual rate of a trillion dollars at the height of the...
The bill follows a government-sponsored agreement hammered out last November. That deal sought to stem the enormous losses studios and their stars suffer to online piracy. But critics claim ISPs have been coerced into the drive by the organization representing French copyright holders. The pact was negotiated by the...
She can say that again. Judicial experts and consumer groups say the bill's proposed policing system will generate many legal challenges - especially regarding invasion-of-privacy issues, and the identification of IP addresses to track people who illegally download. That's especially true in a world where the most...