New IG Study on TARP is “Sickening” says Tea Party  Today, Tea Party Patriots, the nation’s largest tea party organization, issued the following statement in response to a new report that the U.S. Treasury Department paid “excessive” salaries and bonuses to executives at three firms bailed out during the financial crisis. “We opposed TARP and government…

With nearly $100 billion in outstanding loan guarantees the Federal Export-Import Bank is coming up against its loan limit ceiling. Supporters in Congress are proposing to raise taxpayers’ exposure to these loan guarantees to $160 billion over the next three years, $20 billion more than requested by the Bank.  The author of the House Bill…