Congressional Oversight

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• Gambling, Washington-Style

  
  Boom2Bust.com — Authority: 568
  Had to pop some Tums before sitting down to write this post. Read it, and you’ll understand why. From MarketWatch this morning: At its high point, the federal government was guaranteeing or insuring $4.3 trillion in face value of financial assets, according to a report released Friday by the Congressional ...
  6 days ago

• Pelosi Subverts The Process; Why Am I Not Surprised?

  
  Let Freedom Ring — Authority: 139
  The Cato Institute’s Michael Cannon wrote that House Democrats are intentionally gaming the CBO system in an attempt to limit the public’s outcry against the bill: Obama budget director Peter Orszag laid the groundwork for this feat. While director of the CBO in 2007 and 2008, he fostered a more ...
  6 days ago

• TARP has no significant flaws, oversight panel finds

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 797
  Filed under: Company News , Economy , Investing , Bank of America , Citigroup You may find it hard to believe, but the Congressional Oversight Panel released its monthly report Friday and said that it had found no "significant flaws in Treasurys implementation" of TARP bailout programs. In fact, the panel ...
  6 days ago

• The US Government doesn’t have $4.3 trillion to cover their bet.

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 449
  U.S. backed $4.3 trillion in assets, report says “The U.S. government guaranteed as much as $4.3 trillion in financial assets last year, making such backstops the biggest and riskiest part of Washington’s response to the financial crisis, a bailout watchdog panel said on Friday. The Congressional Oversight ...
  6 days ago

• Petition From LoanSafe.org

  
  Fools and Sages — Authority: 414
  Yesterday after Mortgage Modification Hell was posted on MSN’s Smart Money blog, I heard from a member of the LoanSafe community who asked that I post a link to a petition regarding bank behavior. I’m happy to do so, and post the text as well. Please read it through and if you agree with the statements made, ...
  1 week ago

• Where Was the DFL?

  
  Let Freedom Ring — Authority: 139
  In January, 2007, I asked Tarryl Clark if the DFL would conduct oversight hearings to locate the wasteful spending. She said that they would. I asked her that question because the first six DFL bills submitted that year included tax increases. I wanted to know why these bills included tax increases considering ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Bank In the Mirror

  
  The Melting Pot Project — Authority: 433
  For those of you who have never heard of Elizabeth Warren, she heads the Congressional Oversight Panel that was created to oversee TARP. Shes also one of the few good guys (or girls) in the federal government when it comes...
  3 weeks ago

• Elizabeth Warren, Chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel, claims that the Housing Market is Getting Worse

  
  The Political Bridge — Authority: 145
  Tech Ticker, October 16, 2009 Theres been a lot of talk lately about a recovery in the housing market – even reports of bubbles re-inflating in certain markets. Elizabeth Warren, chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel, isnt buying it. "We see things getting worse in the housing market," Warren ...
  3 weeks ago

• Elizabeth Warren: Quote of the Day

  
  Corrente — Authority: 617
  Big Picture : Elizabeth Warren, Chair, TARP Congressional Oversight Panel: “The reason banks lost confidence in each other is because they looked at their own books.” (Referring to the loss of confidence that roiled markets during the darkest days of the crisis.) But fortunately, the Obama administration ...
  3 weeks ago

• Financial Regulatory Reform Cannot Wait

  
  CafeSentido.com — Authority: 502
  Financial regulatory reform cannot wait. It must be strict, it must be cohesive and responsible. It must help return the American economy to the days when investors could invest in something , and have a fair chance of gauging its value and its prospects for a change in value. Wall Street’s investment banks are ...
  3 weeks ago

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