that means perks like free checking may disappear. next up u. your loans, banking will be making sure you can afford it, especially when it comes to mortgages. you also have annual access to your credit score. how about those taxpayer bailouts? president obama says the overhaul will make them a thing of the past, cracking down on companies that put the economy in danger, but republicans dispute that and say this is big government at work. so some republicans are evening calling for the bill to be repealed before it s even signed into law. patricia wu joins us from new york. a lot of criticism already, and you ve been doing some fact checking on that, right? absolutely, fred. you know, house minority leader john boehner came out with both barrels saying temperature make credit harder for the american people to get. it institutionalizes too big to fail and gives far too much authority to federal bureaucrats to bail out virtually any company in america. let s take those one at a time.
them a billion and a half, but let s be real, apple is a company that s worth hundreds of billions and they can afford that. you know, it s true that apple has a lot of money and technically could afford that, but a lot of people saying there s a much easier fix. let me recap the problem. here s an image. the antenna is basically embedded. it winds its way around the outside. if you put your finger here, it can knock out your call. if you have one of these cases that you put on your phone, that doesn t cause a problem anymore. so a lot of people are expecting today that the apple will have
next? i would expect sometime in the next several weeks i ll be back down. we re trying to make sure the technical folks on the ground are making the best possible decisions to shut this well down as quickly as possible, we re standing up the funds so that people are compensated quickly. i m staying in touch each and every day monitoring the progress and getting briefed by the scientists. the key here right now is for us to make decisions based on science, based on what s best for the people in the gulf, not based on pr, not based on politics the. that s part of the reason i wanted to speak this morning. i know there were a lot of records in the media that seemed to indicate that maybe this thing is done. we went be done until we actually know that we ve killed the well and that we have a permanent solution in place. we re moving in that direction, but i don t want us to get too far ahead of ourselves. thank you very much, everybody.
the largest the sec has ever given out. the end the day, goldman sachs made $13.3 billion. a lot of that was from taxpayer collars, aig had to pay out through insurance. a lot of funds, and pay to goldman sachs. able to get away like fat rats. stock is rising. looks good. i can see why world bank of scotland and other companies are thinking about filing civil suits, but you know what? on one side it s, you have a moral decisions goldman sachs made, essentially like an insurance agent trying to hire an arsonist to sell fire insurance. just play stupid decisions on the other hand, that went out to invest with goldman sachs, but they ve overleveraged themselves. securities, next big thing and then they got something else, though, when goldman sachs agrees to write this check it also agrees to
the early spring after health care reform victory, the president felt like he was getting some momentum and what they call the gs, the gulf and the greek debt crisis stop their movement. the greek crisis really slowing any attempted recovery, and the gulf crisis has put pressure on this president. i spoke to one of the top aides this morning, you know, they have faced a lot of fighting infightings among democrats this week, worried maybe they ll lose their grip on power. i asked are you probably happy this week is over? he said, yeah, it s been a long week, but yesterday got a little better. they do nonwant to be celebrating until they know for sure this flow will stop for good. ed henry, thanks so much. we ll check back with you.