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• Wednesday Night #1447

  
  Wednesday-Night — Authority: 136
  What an interesting week we have survived, giving rise to a series of randomly related topics for which we will have to find a thread - or maybe not. The EU now has a permanent president and chief of foreign affairs. Of course, no-one is totally happy and there is sniping over the ‘unknowns’ who have been ...
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• Help Us Help Alan Grayson Save Federal Reserve Audit Bill

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 766
  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 ...
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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 ...
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• ‘Left, Right & Center’: The Geithner-Summers Backlash; Is Palin Dangerous?

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 726
  At long last, it seems that members of Congress, of left- and right-leaning persuasions alike, are harboring serious doubts about a couple of key players on President Barack Obama’s economic task force. The right-leaning Tony Blankley thinks that this signals the cyclical, and helpful, breakdown of ...
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• Whatever the president thinks hes doing, he can hardly claim to be a "pragmatist"

  
  DownWithTyranny! — Authority: 637
  Will they be celebrating the new Gallup numbers in the White House tonight? Will Master Rahm be inviting Larry Summers and Tim Geithner? by Ken Okay, its official now: Gallup has the presidents approval rating down to 49 percent . ("President becomes fourth fastest to slip below the majority approval level.") ...
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• Eliot Spitzer’s New Crusade Against Obamanomics

  
  GreenLightAdvisor Views — Authority: 439
  Are Obama’s economic policies actually working ? Eliot Spitzer says No! Spitzer is taking aim at the [Obama} administration’s approach, accusing it of shying away from the kind of comprehensive reform that the financial system needs. The Obama administration is not so different from the Bush administration, at ...
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• Being Tim Geithner

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 157
  For Tim Geithner, it’s been a difficult week. “Conservatives agree that as point person, you failed,” Rep. Kevin Brady (R-Texas) told the Treasury secretary yesterday during a hearing of the Joint Economic Committee. “Liberals are growing in that consensus as well. Poll after poll shows that the American ...
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• To Geithners Defense

  
  Today With President Barack Obama — Authority: 153
  Arianna Huffington has been the leader of the anti-Geithner (and Larry Summers) movement and she has a lot of followers at the Huffington Post. She uses the same tactics that the rightwing uses--guilt by association. Conservatives hate Geithner too just because they have an irrational opposition to the Obama ...
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• Rep. DeFazio: Fire “Timmy” Geithner + Larry Summers

  
  Moderate Observer — Authority: 121
  Rep. Peter DeFazio called for the firing of President Barack Obama’s top two economic aides on Wednesday for pursuing a recovery plan skewed too heavily towards Wall Street’s favor. The Oregon Democrat told MSNBC’s Ed Schultz that he was dismayed with the administration’s lack of focus on job creation and ...
  6 days ago

• House Dem: Growing liberal consensus to dump Geithner

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 686
  By GottaLaff Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) says that a whole lotta libs are not thrilled with Tim: A Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) member said theres "growing consensus" among liberals that Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner should step down . [...] DeFazio said that lawmakers have not yet drafted a ...
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• House Dem: Growing consensus among liberals to dump Geithner

  
  BeltwayBlips - Top Political News, Videos, and Blogs — Authority: 557
  A member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) said Wednesday that there is a "growing consensus" among the liberal bloc to force Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to step down. {mosads}Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) said that he and other liberal House members are becoming increasingly ... The Political ...
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• Don’t You Think It’s Time to Reinstate the Laws That Would Have Prevented the Financial Crash?

  
  The Indypendent — Authority: 549
  This week marks the tenth year anniversary of the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 , by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley or Financial Services Modernization Act, marking the moment when we were royally screwed by the banking system. Thank you to all those involved. It’s amazing how downright ebullient, President ...
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• The stimulus for unemployment: How Washington goosed joblessness

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 173
  Why did the unemployment rate rise so rapidly -- from 7.2 per cent in January to 10.2 percent in October? It was clearly the administrations "stimulus" bill -- which in February provided $40 billion to greatly extend jobless benefits at no cost to the states. As Larry Summers, the presidents top assistant for economic ...
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• Rosenberg: "Obamas Deja Vu Over-Consumption, Over-Borrowing And Over Building Policy Is Doomed To Failure"

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 768
  Some wise words from one of the few contrarians not swept into the vortex of a massive melt up. On the impact of Obamas stimulus, and its transformation into Fiscal Stimulus 2: The Economic Cycle Research Institute (ECRI), under the auspices of Lakshman Achuthan, publishes a leading economic indicator for the ...
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• Why beat a straw man when you have Larry Summers?

  
  Re: The People — Authority: 131
  “I think we got the Recovery Act right,” Larry Summers, the president’s chief economic adviser, said in an interview. “The primary objective of our policy is having more work done, more product produced and more people earning more income. It may be desirable to have a given amount of work shared among more ...
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• Is Obama the New, Democratic Version of President Herbert Hoover?

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 766
  photo: Tony the Misfit via Flickr Grim news from earlier this month shows that the official unemployment number is now 10.2% and that the far more accurate underemployment number is at 17.5%. Economist David Rosenberg (who correctly forecast the mortgage problem way back in 2004) sees unemployment numbers going to ...
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• Coxe On The Power Of Zero

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 768
  The one "must read" report this weekend comes from Coxe Advisors LLC. A phenomenal summation of all the relevant economic, financial, and political trends and how these will impact both the near- and the longer-term. Key highlights from the report: On the big picture: Highlights: takeovers of General Motors and ...
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• States Deplorable Fiscal Situation Betrays True State Of The Economy Stripped Of Stimulus

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 768
  There is nothing the administration hates more than the anti-propaganda truth, especially the kind that discloses the pathetic situation of the economy. Which is why Larry Summers must be positively loathing the most recent report from the Pew Center On The States, entitled " Beyond California: States in Fiscal Peril ...
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• What Were Reading...

  
  Economix — Authority: 747
  Auctioning Bernie Madoffs belongings and other economic news from around the Web.
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• Popeye the Sailor Solves Our Recession Problems

  
  Project Child Murdering Robot — Authority: 119
  A country deep in debt thanks to a confusing and protracted war, prohibition, and an absurd monetary policy. Depression plagues the citizens, and even the government itself, already bloated, cannot pay all of its employees. What is a leader to do? Well, as Popeye the Sailor points out in these comic strips from ...
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