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• Tobin tax advocates pile pressure on US

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  • Supporters admit international levy needs US support • Obama administration and Wall Street unenthusiastic Advocates of a Tobin tax on financial transactions accept that any international levy would need US support and an increasingly vocal coalition of Democrats in Washington is pressing a sceptical Obama ...
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• Help Us Help Alan Grayson Save Federal Reserve Audit Bill

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 764
  This shocked everyone . In an unprecedented move, the House Financial Services Committee voted to approve an amendment by Ron Paul and Alan Grayson to audit the Federal Reserve — the first time anything like this has happened in the Fed’s history. A push is already under way to remove the amendment on the House ...
  5 hours ago

• Racist Obama billboard in Denver?

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 132
  No. In bad taste, maybe. Wolf Interstate Leasing in Wheat Ridge, Colorado has put up a billboard insinuating that President Obama is somehow tied to Jihadists and the Fort Hood shootings. The billboard features cartoons that show a caricatured President morphing from a suit-wearing politician into a turban-wearing ...
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• Burkha Barbies

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 132
  This should unite the Islamic Extremists and the western feminists but the feminists wont say a work about this.. One of the worlds most famous childrens toys, Barbie, has been given a makeover  - wearing a burkha. Wearing the traditional Islamic dress, the iconic doll is going undercover for a charity auction in ...
  6 hours ago

• Best Guess: Tim Geithner Edition

  
  The Casone Exchange — Authority: 107
  I find myself surprised that we are once again hearing the calls for Treasury Secretary Geithner should resign.  I found myself on the air Friday afternoon reminding viewers that the majority of the government programs that we have now came from the financial meltdown of one year ago.  Then Secretary Paulson and ...
  7 hours ago

• Janet Tavakoli Retracts Her Apology To Goldman Sachs, Calls For More Regulation Of The Government Backstopped Hedge Fund

  
  Bear Market Investments — Authority: 498
  Zero Hedge Submitted by Janet Tavakoli of Tavakoli Structured Finance I Retract My Apology and Call for More Regulation of Goldman Sachs TSF – Opinion Commentary – November 22, 2009 (see also Apology ) According to SIGTARP 1 , both the Federal Reserve and Treasury agreed that an ...
  8 hours ago

• GRETCHEN MORGENSON Takes the Lead in Media Coverage of Mortgage Meltdown in NY Times

  
  Livinglies's Weblog — Authority: 131
  NOW AVAILABLE ON KINDLE/AMAZON Gretchen Gets It. The entire article is worth reading and even studying. If you get what she is saying, you can understand just how false this Waltz has been. “The very design of the federal assistance to A.I.G. was that tens of billions of dollars of government money was ...
  9 hours ago

• Year 1 BHO

  
  TheSkeptikOne — Authority: 118
  I am still thankful that Barack Obama was elected president of the United States last November. I believe that the country turned and started going in the right direction after being off kilter for so many years. I still think that one year later, he was and remains the best choice for this country. Am I 100% happy ...
  10 hours ago

• Janet Tavakoli Retracts Her Apology To Goldman Sachs, Calls For More Regulation Of The Government Backstopped Hedge Fund

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 767
  Submitted by Janet Tavakoli of Tavakoli Structured Finance I Retract My Apology and Call for More Regulation of Goldman Sachs TSF – Opinion Commentary – November 22, 2009 (see also Apology ) According to SIGTARP 1 , both the Federal Reserve and Treasury agreed that an AIG failure posed ...
  11 hours ago

• Reid ramrods Obamacare to next step with bribes

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 132
  Conservatives need to descend on DC on the 30th to stop this asinine socialized HC bill. A bruising debate on health care awaits the Senate after Thanksgiving now that the historic legislation has cleared a key hurdle over the opposition of Republicans eager to inflict a punishing defeat on President Barack Obama. ...
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• Terry Keenan Stuffs This Year’s Wall Street Turkeys

  
  The Reformed Broker — Authority: 636
  The New York Post ’s always acerbically witty columnist Terry Keenan lines up this year’s Wall Street Turkeys and knocks ‘em down. The names on the list are fairly predictable even to the lay person, in light of how much ink our favorite captains of finance have recieved nationally this year.  They ...
  12 hours ago

• Daily Grind: The Unsustainable "Public Option"

  
  Press Releases — Authority: 492
  Editorial: The Unsustainable "Public Option" By 2019, the Senates "public option" will have spent some $361 billion more than it took in via new taxes. Obama and the Great Firewall America has forfeited its right to lecture the Chinese government on anything given our increasing reliance on Chinese loans ...
  13 hours ago

• Standard & Poor’s criminal activities proven by William K. Black

  
  nikkypals.com — Authority: 168
  law ) recorded on June 11th 2009 the great american bank robbery William K. Black, the former litigation director of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board who investigated the Savings and Loan disaster of the 1980s, discusses the latest scandal in which a single bank, IndyMac, lost more money than was lost during the ...
  22 hours ago

• Schiff: Roubini Doesn’t Understand the Fundamentals Behind Gold

  
  Wall Street Pit — Authority: 648
  Here is Peter Schiff taking on Nouriel Roubini, on the subject of gold. Roubini believes asset prices, including gold, have risen too much, too soon and too fast compared with macroeconomic fundamentals. Fueling this — as Roubini calls it — ‘asset bubble’ is the weakness of...
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• Secretary Geithner should resign

  
  shopyield.com — Authority: 430
  US Treasury Secretary Geithner should resign from office. He represents the most visible strand of the nexus between Wall Street, the US Treasury and the Federal Reserve. This is a web of influence and advantage in which the nations largest banks have captured the monetary apparatus of our nation. For several ...
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• Saturday Night Video: Congressman Brady and Sec Treas Geithner Have a Cat Fight

  
  The Reformed Broker — Authority: 636
  Geithner gets feisty with the Congressman right around the 2:50 mark, but the whole thing is worth watching. Better than that friggin’ “ V ” tv show on ABC at least.  
  1 day ago

• What Stands In The Way Of Taxing Derivatives: 1,479+ Lobbyists

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 767
  There are about $1.4 quadrillion of them. So why not tax them? As Tim Geithner says "Thats not something we are prepared to support." Some are curious, who is this editorial "we" in this case. According to a co-sponsor of an upcoming bill, he has been called three times by none other than Jamie Dimon to promote the ...
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• Illegally crossing the border, received in an e-mail.

  
  Boudica BPI Weblog — Authority: 129
  OK. I THINK I GET IT Let me see if I understand all this…. IF YOU CROSS THE NORTH KOREAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU GET 12 YEARS HARD LABOR. IF YOU CROSS THE IRANIAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU ARE DETAINED INDEFINITELY. IF YOU CROSS THE AFGHAN BORDER, YOU GET SHOT. IF YOU CROSS THE TURKEY BORDER ILLEGALLY, YOU SPEND THE ...
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• Timothy Geithner on the Chopping Block

  
  The Daily Reckoning — Authority: 628
  Is it time for US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to consider resignation? As a result of his recent congressional testimony, shown in the video below, the topic’s now very top of mind. This pressure comes in addition to the recent Rasmussen Reports survey that shows 42 percent of Americans think he’s done a ...
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• Tax trouble for another Obama appointee

  
  Don't Mess With Taxes — Authority: 597
  No, you are not caught in a time warp. Another candidate tapped by President Obama for federal office has a bit of tax trouble. Lael Brainard has been nominated to serve as Treasury undersecretary for international affairs. Her  confirmation hearing finally got underway last week. The process was held ...
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