World-News

Jonathan Larsen reports for MSNBC News: "Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain's national campaign general co-chair was being paid by a Swiss bank to lobby Congress about the US mortgage crisis at the same time he was advising McCain about his economic policy, federal records show ... lobbying disclosure forms, filed by the giant Swiss bank UBS, list McCain's campaign co-chair, former Texas Sen. Phil Gramm, as a lobbyist dealing specifically with legislation regarding the mortgage crisis as recently as December 31, 2007."

http://www.truthout.org/article/mccain-economic-policy-shaped-lobbyist



The Real Legacy of the "Reagan Revolution"

Robert Scheer, for Truthdig, writes: "McCain campaign co-chair Phil Gramm is right: We have 'become a nation of whiners.' But who is whining more than the bankers that former Sen. Gramm's financial deregulation legislation benefited? The very bankers who now expect a government bailout, such as those at UBS Investment Bank, where Gramm found lucrative employment."

http://www.truthout.org/article/the-real-legacy-reagan-revolution



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=McCain
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=mortgage
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=lobbyist
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Phil+Gramm
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Scheer