Bailouts

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• New Blog: “Economists for Firing Larry Summers”

  
  The Big Picture — Authority: 153
  While many people seem to be agitating for Turbo Timmy’s dismissal , an underground drumbeat has begun calling for Summer’s head: How can you not find some appreciation for a blog that is devoted to helping a man spend more time with his loved ones? Economists for Firing Larry Summers : This blog is ...
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• Martin Wolf: Tax Windfall Bonuses

  
  The Big Picture — Authority: 153
  Martin Wolf wants to take bankers who are living large on the taxpayer dole, and tax them, big and hard. He gives 6 reasons: 1) Some institutions that are “making exceptional profits because they are beneficiaries of unlimited state insurance for themselves and their counter-parties.” These largest business ...
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• The Federal Reserve and Over-controlling

  
  Credit Bubble Stocks — Authority: 129
  The following is an article that was meant to be published in December 2007, but I never clicked "publish." A friend called me and asked "Whats the biggest cut the fed has ever done?" So, I looked up the entire history of Fed Funds rate changes. The last time the Fed moved more than 50bp in either direction was ...
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• Saturday Night Live Lampoons Obama

  
  The Beacon — Authority: 616
  Saturday Night Live lampoons Barack Obama and his reckless and gargantuan, federal government spending and debt mongering in their recent skit of a joint press conference with Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao, “China Wants Its Money Back”:
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• ‘China Model’ May Leave ‘Washington Consensus’ in the Dust: Al-Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 735
  Perhaps it was inevitable. If so, the inevitable has happened. Countries that have either an authoritarian streak or are outright totalitarian are beginning to talk of a new model of development to replace what’s known as the “Washington Consensus.” In other words, state-controlled economics divorced from ...
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• Sen. whore Landrieu prostitutes herself to Sen. pimp Harry Reid.

  
  Boudica BPI Weblog — Authority: 129
  Landrieu was against this monster government grab until the pimp of the senate Harry Reid offered $300 million, then got in bed with him and his plan. Do your own research, leave your comments. Congress sucks. This administration sucks. Stand up America, against both parties. These people are criminals that are ...
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• Bear Stearns, Lehman Execs Kept Billions . . .

  
  The Big Picture — Authority: 703
  Everyone knows that senior execs at Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers were paid largely in stock, and that they lost most of their wealth when the companies collapsed, right? Turns out, not so much: “Three professors at Harvard are disputing that logic in a new study, saying it is an urban myth that executives at ...
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• The Golden Years

  
  The Daily Reckoning — Authority: 622
  The Dow fell slightly on Friday. Oil ended the week at $77. The dollar went nowhere. But gold rose to a new high – $1,146. Whatever else may be going on, there’s a real bull market in gold. It’s a bull market that began ten years ago. If you’d bought stocks then, you’d have about what you have now…less ...
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• Bailouts would imperil democracy warns IMF

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 973
  Dominique StraussKahn head of the International Monetary Fund has warned the financial elite that its behaviour has stretched the patience of Western democracies to near snapping point precluding any possibility of a second rescue if recovery falters.
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• The politics of the bailout

  
  James Pethokoukis — Authority: 509
  From the Times : Dominique Strauss-Kahn told the CBI annual conference of business leaders that another huge call on public finances by the financial services sector would not be tolerated by the “man in the street” and could even threaten democracy. “Most advanced economies will not accept any more ...
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• US Clashes With UK Over New Tax Proposal

  
  Roni Deutch: The Tax Lady Blog — Authority: 480
  The United States and United Kingdom usually agree on economic policies, according to Tax Girl leaders from each countries have publicly taken different views on a proposal to tax financial transactions to fund banking rescues. UK Prime Minister (for now) Gordon Brown is in favor of such a tax, ...
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• Big Bang Bubble

  
  Liberty's Life Line — Authority: 121
  We have had several bubbles before, but if the Obama administration has their way, “you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.”  Currently the budget for the federal government is $4 trillion dollars.  That’s right, your federal government will spend approximately (which means probably more) $4 trillion in one year.  Of ...
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• Where’s the teabagger outrage?

  
  Phuck Politics - Titty fucking Nancy Pelosi one post at a time. — Authority: 126
  Sleazy whores. Because I thought they hated shit like this : Leading Indian outsourcers such as Tata Consultancy (Bombay:TCS.BO – News), Infosys (Bombay:INFY.BO – News) and Wipro (Bombay:WIPR.BO – News) stand to gain contracts worth about $1 billion in the next one or two years as U.S. banks emerge from the ...
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• Visual Description for Economics Education

  
  Garnering Right Ideas — Authority: 427
  This should be required reading for every American, especially high school and college students. Our national debt: How much would 12 trillion eggs weigh? .
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• Pat Robertson – Islam Not A Religion

  
  Better World Movement — Authority: 144
  Watch more at www.theyoungturks.com Follow us on Twitter. http Check Out TYT Interviews www.youtube.comPat Robertson – Islam Not A Religion is a post from: Better World Movement Pat Robertson – Islam Not A Religion is a post from: Better World Movement
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• VI.D Preview: up to 600 Bank Failures by 2011 - Fed ex-Gov

  
  Housing Doom — Authority: 581
  Doom Transcripts: Index & Guide We’re now a bit over half done coding the under construction transcript VI.D for AEI’s November 12, 2009 event "Is It Possible to Reprivatize the U.S. Financial System?" 1 As usual, there have been some interesting moments. Somewhere around the 37th minute former ...
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• Government Responds to Economic Woes by Making More Bad Mortgage Loans

  
  The Beacon — Authority: 616
  Since the summer of 2008, the U.S. Treasury and the Fed have initiated a welter of new spending, lending, and subsidizing programs ostensibly aimed at steming the recession that began early in that year and deepened quickly in its last quarter and in the first quarter of 2009. Among the most notable of these programs ...
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• Game council was big mistake, say Aussies

  
  NewsWire.co.nz — Authority: 137
  AN Australian conservation group warns that setting up a game council in New Zealand could lead to the same taxpayer bailouts and pest problems it did for New South Wales. Carol Booth ( right ), policy officer for the Invasive Species Council, says that a similar council set up in New South Wales in 2002 has been a ...
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• THE UTTER HYPOCRISY OF THE LEFT

  
  Desert Conservative — Authority: 495
    ANN COULTER : How liberals play the victim — while oppressing others Guilty: Liberal “Victims” and their Assault on America by Ann Coulter Liberals love to play the victim, says Ann Coulter – particularly when they are oppressing others. “That is the essence of liberals,” writes Coulter in ...
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• SNL finally gets it right on Obama

  
  Liberty Maven Liberty Maven: For Liberty, One Individual At A Time — Authority: 588
  The opening clip of Saturday Night Live last night featured a rather thorough dressing down of Obama. I had to kept checking the channel to make sure it wasn’t the Glenn Beck show I was watching. The clip is below. Obama gets hammered on bailouts, cash for clunkers, and “spending money to make money”. In this ...
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