Federal Bailout Funds

WASHINGTON, May 21 (Reuters) - Disasters such as Monday's tornado that wiped out much of Moore, Oklahoma often prompt people to help victims by collecting goods or launching blood drives, but charitable groups said money, not goods, is the best way to...

Neil Barofsky, the feisty former prosecutor of Colombian drug lords who was tapped by President George W. Bush in 2008 to oversee the $700 billion TARP bank bailout, did not like a lot of what he saw during his 27-month stint in the nation's capital....

By Tom Hals May 10 (Reuters) - A report on Friday could embolden creditors of bankrupt mortgage lender Residential Capital LLC to pursue billions of dollars of cash that its parent, Ally Financial Inc, had planned to use to repay a U.S. government...

WASHINGTON -- Bailed-out housing finance giant Fannie Mae said Thursday it would pay the U.S. government $59.4 billion after posting a record profit for the first three months of the year. The fortunes of the company, which is 80% owned by taxpayers...

(Repeats to add bond yield graphic) By Jan Strupczewski BRUSSELS, May 2 (Reuters) - Throughout Europe's debt crisis, northern European leaders have often said they will not stand for taxpayers having to fork out for other countries' problems, and the...

While news coverage of the manhunt for a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings played in the background at his office in the Warren County Courthouse, Sheriff Jerry "Peanuts" Gaines said public safety organizations sometimes fail to get attention...

A federal foreclosure-prevention effort that earmarked nearly $2 billion in taxpayer money to help troubled California homeowners has delivered only about one-sixth of that money in three years. But officials from the Keep Your Home California program...

A federal foreclosure-prevention effort that earmarked nearly $2 billion to help troubled California homeowners has delivered only about one-sixth of those funds during its three years in existence. The pace of assistance is finally accelerating,...

WASHINGTON — The Federal Housing Administration helped stabilize the real estate market after the subprime bubble and lay the groundwork for the recovery — and now the bill for taxpayers might be coming due. The Obama administration's...

WASHINGTON -- Bailed-out Fannie Mae on Tuesday reported a record $17.2 billion profit for 2012, driven by the housing-market recovery and a big settlement with Bank of America related to soured mortgages during the subprime boom. The housing finance...

It’s been a rough week for Russian oligarchs, with the apparent suicide of exiled Kremlin critic Boris Berezovsky as well as a Eurozone rescue of Cyprus expected to come largely at the expense of Russian high rollers who stashed their wealth in...

ATHENS -- Racing against time and short on choices, Cyprus on Friday moved to vote on yet another bailout formula its government cobbled together to secure a $13-billion international lifeline that will keep its weak banks afloat and avert a devastating...