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• Quotes For The Week

  
  Boom2Bust.com — Authority: 432
  We are in a serious, great recession. -Paul Volcker, former Federal Reserve Chairman and current Chairman of the Economic Recovery Advisory Board in the Obama administration ( Spiegel Online (Germany), December 12) Everybody agrees the recession is over. -Larry Summers, Director of the National Economic ...
  4 days ago

• A Tale of Two Ivies

  
  Akkam's Razor — Authority: 128
  One of the more frustrating things about Obama’s economic team and policy has been the use of the same advisors who contributed to the conditions that made the Great Recession possible (Geithner, Summers, etc.). Some schools, such as the University of Pennsylvania, saw the changing and challenging economic ...
  6 days ago

• Great Job, Everyone at Harvard

  
  The Awl — Authority: 767
  Bloomberg presents an extremely comprehensive case for Harvard’s finances having been run by idiots. (You may know this already, but the details are amazing.) Particularly one idiot, Lawrence Summers, who set things in motion as early as 2004, before his sudden departure in 2006; he is now unfortunately the head ...
  1 week ago

• Are the Democrats Fighting the Banks?

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 515
  Are the Democrats Fighting the Banks? By Shamus Cooke How pathetic.  President Obama sat at a table surrounded by super rich bankers, pleading with them to lend money to small businesses and workers.   The media mislabeled Obama’s groveling as “encouraging,” “imploring,” and “pressing,” but a man ...
  1 week ago

• Obama vs. the Banks (Why should banks make risky loans when they can exploit the Feds policy?)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Why make risky loans when you can exploit the Fed-Treasury interest rate spread? Over the weekend, President Barack Obama went on the offensive against Wall Street for not lending more to Main Street. On CBSs "60 Minutes," the president declared, "I did not run for office to be helping out a bunch of fat cat bankers ...
  1 week ago

• 2010: “The Year of Severe Economic Contraction” By Mike Whitney

  
  Creative-i — Authority: 145
  Upbeat reports in the financial media, belie the effects of the ongoing credit contraction. Massive injections of central bank liquidity have prevented the collapse of financial markets, but have done little to ease the deleveraging of households or stimulate activity the broader economy. The crisis has stripped $13 ...
  1 week ago

• Document Flashback: Larry Summers’ 1991 World Bank Memo

  
  EnviroKnow — Authority: 530
  New York Times in February 1992 : A memo by Lawrence H. Summers, the World Bank’s chief economist, has angered environmentalists by arguing that many developing countries are underpolluted and that dirty industries should be encouraged to move to them. Mr. Summers has said the memo was meant to be sarcastic. “A ...
  1 week ago

• Mission Not Accomplished

  
  Liberty Maven Liberty Maven: For Liberty, One Individual At A Time — Authority: 432
  by Peter Schiff, president of Euro Pacific Capital and author of Crash Proof 2.0: How to Profit from the Economic Collapse Although Barack Obama has refrained, at least for now, from delivering triumphant speeches in a naval flight suit, there is nevertheless a strong tone of accomplishment emanating from the ...
  1 week ago

• The Recession Is Over … Again

  
  FITSNews — Authority: 583
  President Barack Obama’s top economic advisor declared that the U.S. recession was “over” on Sunday, following up a prediction that was made three months ago by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. Lawrence Summers, director of Obama’s National Economic Council, made the pronouncement on this week’s ...
  1 week ago

• Top Obama advisers split on state of economy

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 463
  President Barack Obamas top economic advisers split Sunday on the state of the economy, with one declaring the recession over and the other saying it would not be over until the nations unemployment percentage returned to pre-recession levels. "Today, everybody agrees that the recession is over, and the question is ...
  1 week ago

• Officials Say Jobs Will Grow Next Year, But It Will Be a Long Road Back

  
  Politics Daily — Authority: 783
  Filed under: Mitt Romney , Economy , Obama Administration Top Obama administration economic officials, as well as former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, expressed confidence today that job growth will resume next year, but they cautioned that it will take time until the unemployment rate returns to its ...
  1 week ago

• The Sunday Breakfast Menu, Dec. 13, 2009

  
  The Caucus — Authority: 775
  Equations are all over the menu this Sunday, as the guests argue their competing formulas for whats going to power up the American economy. Add health care, climate, Afghanistan, and, urr, Christmas for the full mathematic function of Sunday television.
  1 week ago

• Congressional Black Caucus Boycott Yields Results: What We Can Learn

  
  Black Entertainment, Money, Style and Beauty Blogs - Black Voices — Authority: 154
  Filed under: Politics , President Obama , Race and Civil Rights They did it. The Congressional Black Caucus raised a little hell and made things happen. By standing together to boycott a key House committee vote and threatening to abandon support for banking regulations, the CBC was able to get $6 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Keith Wandell Gathers With Washington Elite

  
  Northwest Harley Blog — Authority: 120
  Meetings.  Talking.  Meetings. We’re always being reminded that political leaders, policymakers and industry leaders are “gathering” to hash out ideas on how to get the mojo back and what the key is to unlocking innovations and jobs of the future.  We’re suppose to feel good, but from my vantage there is ...
  2 weeks ago

• Still Doing God’s Work on Wall Street

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 739
  By Robert Scheer Jail, anyone? Perhaps that’s too harsh, and at any rate premature, but is anyone ever going to be held accountable for the behind-the-scenes sweetheart deals that passed tens of billions of taxpayer dollars through the AIG shell game to the very banks that caused the financial meltdown? ...
  4 weeks ago

• Is Washington Completely Out Of Touch With Main Street?

  
  Boom2Bust.com — Authority: 432
  I’ve got an idea the following Huffington Post piece might very well describe how a number of Americans feel right now about our elected officials in Washington. From Post contributor Don McNay last night: Can you hear me calling you? -Mike and The Mechanics Mark Twain said that when he died he wanted to be ...
  4 weeks ago

• Flushing Out Tax Cheats

  
  IRS Tax Problem Solver Blog - IRS Help — Authority: 125
  Tax evaders who use offshore bank accounts to stash their cash mainly use about 90 countries to do so. The most famous one is Switzerland with its famed Swiss bank secrecy laws that have sheltered tax cheats for decades. But with the recent watershed settlement between the IRS and UBS bank of Switzerland that will ...
  4 weeks ago

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