taxpayers

The US government's tab (and the taxpayers' tab) for fighting the financial crisis grows week by week, and the potential bill is far into 13 figures already.

It is troubling to consider exactly how much money is being thrown at the economy. Taxpayers will eventually have to pay for all this somehow.

Falling markets and a sour economy have opened a gap of more than $200 billion in the pension plans of S&P 500 companies, including Ford and GM. Will taxpayers get stuck with the bill?

In the federal government's bailout of Citigroup, the bank gets another $20 billion of fresh capital, and taxpayers are on the hook for most of the losses from Citi's toxic assets.

Kai Ryssdal talks with John Carney of Clusterstock.com about the details.

Under a mortgage rescue plan announced at the debate Tuesday night by Senator John McCain, much of the burden of paying to keep troubled borrowers in their homes will shift to taxpayers.

The economic bailout package contains an assortment of benefits for millions of taxpayers and consumers.

Bill Gross says taxpayers could make money on the financial-sector rescue package moving in fits and starts through Congress.

He doesn't have much company, though.

How will the architects of the new rescue plan make sure we, as taxpayers, get a fair price? That's what lawmakers on Capitol Hill were asking today.

Bob Moon has more.

The Bush administration's proposed $700 billion financial rescue took fuller shape on Monday as lawmakers debated whether to add provisions to protect taxpayers while banks and other companies called for expanding its scope beyond mortgages.

"NO NO NO. Not just no, but HELL NO," writes Richard, a reader from Anchorage, Alaska.