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The Crisis That Could Bring Down Obama
The Year of Cockeyed Optimism "The foundations of our economy are strong" By Mike Whitney Consumer spending is down, housing is in a shambles, and industrial output dropped at an annual rate of 20 percent,... ...
Obama Adviser Paid Millions as Hedge Fund Director
The Associated Press: "Lawrence Summers, President Barack Obama's top economic adviser, earned millions over the past year as managing director of the hedge fund D.E. Shaw Group and through speaking fees,... ...
Merrill Lynch Bonus Payments Dwarf A.I.G.
Matt Renner, Truthout: "Anger over the bonuses at A.I.G. blew back onto members of the Obama administration as it was revealed that Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and others had been aware of the bonus... ...
That's No Angry Mob, It's a Movement
Michael Winship, Truthout: "A college friend of mine, after much quaffing from the keg, so to speak, would start singing a faux hymn that began, 'We are sliding into sin - whee!' I've thought of his bleary... ...
Judgment Day for Geithner
By Mike Whitney Insolvent financial institutions have to be taken into receivership and liquidated. Shareholders and bondholders will have to take a haircut. And Geithner, Summers and the rest of the... ...
China Urges New Money Reserve to Replace Dollar
By DAVID BARBOZA In another indication that China is growing increasingly concerned about holding huge dollar reserves, the head of its central bank has called for the eventual creation of a new international... ...
Beware of “let government do it”
Orange County Register by Steve Greenhut Those of us who advocate freedom and capitalism run up against a difficult problem. Even though these ideas, hampered as they have always been by government intervention,... ...
Who Got AIG's Bailout Billions?
Tondai Reinhold, Reuters: "Where, oh where, did AIG's bailout billions go? That question may reverberate even louder through the halls of government in the week ahead now that a partial list of beneficiaries... ...
The U.S. Financial System Is Effectively Insolvent
There is a grave risk of a global L-shaped depression. By Nouriel Roubini Even with the $2 trillion of government support, most of these financial institutions are insolvent, as delinquency and charge-off... ...
Let those banks fail!
Independent Institute by Alvaro Vargas Llosa 03/04/09 In January alone, the annual rate of saving in the U.S. was the highest since monthly records began in 1959. That should be a reason to rejoice.... ...