Robert Rubin

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• Imus: Obama Jimmy Carter Stupid Regarding Wall Street and the Economy

  
  Jeff Poor's blog — Authority: 676
  According to Don Imus, its the late-1970s all over again, and not in a good way.  Imus appeared on the Fox News Channels Nov. 24 "Hannity" program and had some disparaging words for the current administrations economic policy. He told viewers that Obamas associations with Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers werent ...
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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 ...
  1 week ago

• Who Are You and What Have You Done With the Community Organizer We Elected President?

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 726
  By Robert Scheer What’s up with Barack Obama? Finally someone has a good idea about how to deal with Wall Street and the White House condemns it.  READ THE WHOLE ITEM Related Entries November 17, 2009 The Demilitarization of the White House November 17, 2009 Dobbs Blames It on Obama November ...
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• One degree of separation or how small the bankster world really is

  
  Aotearoa: a wider perspective — Authority: 428
  In the next couple of weeks  with the help of this map I will uncover more in depth how all these men relate to each other but right from the start you can see that John Key has  some pretty close connections to the bankers who are ruling the US with Obama as their sock puppet. More so than anyone in New Zealand ...
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• How the Democrats might privatize and cut Social Security

  
  SF Gray Panthers — Authority: 120
  After Bush’s 2005 fiasco, Democrats and Republicans will join hands to privatize and cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid in a more subtle way. Don’t let your guard down! Note: This was written in June and July of 2008, before Obama was even a presidential candidate, let alone elected. It was also written ...
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• Robert Rubin: The Nexus Of Big Government and Wall Street

  
  Big Government — Authority: 813
  For anyone who thinks that big Wall Street and Big Government aren’t joined at the hip, promoting policies and laws that keep each other fat and happy often at the expense of the American taxpayer, consider the career of Robert Rubin. Rubin, of course, is largely gone from the public scene after spending 10 ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Age of Paranoia

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  W.H. Auden, the great British poet, coined "The Age of Anxiety" to characterize the post-WWII era. Anxiety is a free-floating dread that something beyond our control will cause us harm. Auden used anxiety to describe how people desperately sought emotional stability in a fast-changing technological world. Audens ...
  2 weeks ago

• No Change to Believe In: Finance is much the same as ever.

  
  New Deal 2.0 — Authority: 142
  Writing for Newsweek, Rob Johnson explores the obstacles to financial reform. Will it take another meltdown to get them? The worst crisis since the Great Depression is entering its third year — the recession actually began in late 2007. Trillions of dollars have been lost worldwide, both on the balance sheets of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Brooksley Born: Responsible, Accountable, American

  
  Newsroom Magazine — Authority: 129
  Politics has a way of reminding us that the conventional wisdom, while widely held, is not always wise.David CarrNew York TimesWashingtonThe Making Of An American LegendAs a nation, we’ve strayed from the values of our ancestors.  Shared interests have been supplanted by private interests. Being responsible for ...
  2 weeks ago

• Reflections on Obama, One Year Later: ‘Tragically Charismatic’

  
  New Deal 2.0 — Authority: 142
  One year after Obama’s election, Rob Johnson, Director of Financial Reform at the Roosevelt Institute , looks at his promise, his tragic flaw, and the need for the President to stand up to powerful industry groups if he is to stem the tide of public cynicism. Barack Obama was elected to the White House just after ...
  2 weeks ago

• Wall Street, DC

  
  Raw Dawg Buffalo — Authority: 115
  For the past coupla a few years I have been writing and thinking a lot about money and economics. Before then I used to always write about foreign policy, I don’t know why, for my professional expertise, or any of my Undergraduate, master of doctorate degrees are in the area of either foreign policy or economics. ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Warning: The Incredible Story of Brooksley Born. How the Financial Crisis Might Have Been Averted.

  
  slabbed — Authority: 478
  One week ago Tuesday I sat in front of my Television spellbound watching PBS Frontline’s profile of Brooksley Born , a former Clinton Administration agency head who has since been termed the “Credit Crisis Cassandra” by the media. As the show ended all of my questions regarding the ineptitude of Obama’s ...
  4 weeks ago

• Horrors: Nota Bene for 27 October 2009

  
  Scholars and Rogues — Authority: 592
  With apologies to Edgar Allan Poe… Once upon a midnight dreary, as you quaffed drinks brown and beery, Came a tapping amid the gloom, upon the closed door of your room. You spied with thin eyes the tenebrous hall, wond’ring who had the unmitigated gall To interrupt your sacred rite of getting hammered ...
  4 weeks ago

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