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• 12/24/09…’twas the night before Christmas

  
  Traderbill's Financial Markets Weblog — Authority: 122
  Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, All the Best! …and all through the Senate… If Santa arrives early today he just might take out that 50% retracement of the entire selloff on the S&P 500 at 1121.21…intraday high was 1121.58 but could not hold and closed at 1120.59. Perhaps now you can see how important ...
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• Three Men Who Were Responsible For the Great Recession

  
  Weatherdem's Weblog — Authority: 122
  I saw this picture in a Meteor Blades diary on dkos and had to comment on it: Here is a comment made at the end of the post: [The Time magazine cover photo is of Robert Rubin, Alan Greenspan and Larry Summers from February 15, 1999, right after Gramm-Leach-Bliley repeal of Glass-Steagall was signed. h/t to Paul ...
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• 12/17/09… a tale of two Citi’s…and two Fed’s

  
  Traderbill's Financial Markets Weblog — Authority: 122
  (Before we start there is a phenomenon TB cannot recall occurring before. Overnight, the dollar staged a huge rebound to the highest level since September 7 and close to the 200 day moving average  after being wallowing near the lows and the 40/50 day m/a’s. The catalyst for this was yesterday’s downgrade of ...
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• Sustainability of U.S. Deficits Reason Why Investors Own Some Gold

  
  The Daily Reckoning Australia — Authority: 525
  Todays Daily Reckoning is an ambitious one. But hey, after youve seen James Camerons Avatar , you feel like pretty much anything is possible. Well save the movie review for later. For now, lets have a look at some obvious and not so obvious warning signs emanating from the economy. First is the picture below. It is ...
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• Wall Street’s Fat Cats Are Still In Charge

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 739
  By Robert Scheer Most Americans now know that Wall Street bankers are so greedy as to never be trusted, and I suppose it is a sign of progress that our president now seems to grasp the obvious. How depressing, though, that a man who was elected as a consequence of one of the boldest grass-roots populist ...
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• Is Robert Rubin manipulating Obama to help Wall Street?

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 766
  Filed under: People , Goldman Sachs , Citigroup Rolling Stone s Matt Taibbi argues in a new article, " Obamas Big Sellout ," that President Obamas advisors are undermining his campaign promises for change by forcing him to do the bidding of Wall Street. Obamas most powerful advisors are reportedly under the ...
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• Bond Traders Put Pressure on Debt-Laden Nations

  
  DealBook — Authority: 772
  The bond vigilantes are back, but this time they are roaming mostly through Europe rather than the United States -- at least for now.
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• Obama Hypocrisy Meter Off The Charts: "I Did Not Run For Office To Be Helping Out A Bunch Of Fat Cat Bankers On Wall Street"

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 739
  Obama goes back to his Wall Street-bashing rhetoric in todays 60 Minutes on CBS, after he has already doomed this country to tens of trillions in excess debt to make sure that Wall Street not only thrives, but prospers, courtesy of Bernankes vertical bond curve and the daily destruction of the dollar. With statements ...
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  Bildungblog — Authority: 154
  Warm Scuzzies #44 Robert Rubin
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• Economics Food Fight

  
  The Confluence — Authority: 615
  Matt Taibbi Finally we have something fun to talk about. This could save us from wallowing in the horrors of Obama’s health insurance company bailout bill all weekend long. Matt Taibbi’s latest piece came out in Rolling Stone weeks ago, but was only available to subscribers until recently. Suddenly there is a ...
  2 weeks ago

• OMB’s Orzag Was Against Deficits Before He Was For Them

  
  Big Government — Authority: 816
  Just came across some rather grim analysis of the economic impact of massive, ongoing federal budget deficits from a group of prominent economists. It’s a little dated (2004) but still highly relevant considering that the deficit situation has dramatically worsened since then. Some highlights: Substantial ongoing ...
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• Where Have the Virgin Deficit Slayers Gone? Or Mr. Rubin, Have You Been ‘Crowded Out?’

  
  Big Government — Authority: 816
  Today, Politio reported the the Congressional Democrat Leadership will increase the debt ceiling by $1.8 trillion. There was a time, in Democrat land, that Robert Rubin was thought to be an oracle. During the Clinton years, the Treasury Secretary was so highly regarded that his economic plans were dubbed Rubinomics. ...
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• Balancing the Budget

  
  The New Republic - Health Care Feed — Authority: 690
  As of late this summer, Democrats in Washington shared a tidy consensus about the economy: The stimulus was working more or less on schedule, and the job market was gradually recovering. That meant the administration could start thinking about how to rein in the country’s yawning budget deficit, if not actually ...
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• Matt Taibbi: Obama’s Wall Street 180 Started on Election Day

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 739
  Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi walks through Barack Obama’s banking sellout, beginning with the president’s transition team. According to Taibbi, Obama’s transformation from populist to Wall Street’s best friend started on day one. READ THE WHOLE ITEM Related Entries December 9, 2009 ‘Colbert ...
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• The Longwave Group On Why The Fed Must Be Abolished

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 739
  THE LONGWAVE ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL CYCLE - WINTER WARNING, December 7, 2009 Who’s In Charge? – The Regulators Big Brother is alive and living in Washington, D.C. but he is not well.   A malaise of weaknesses and failures, unearthed during the recent credit crisis, continues to permeate through various ...
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• ACORN Whitewash: ACORN Report Is Dishonest Legal Hair-Splitting

  
  Big Government — Authority: 816
  I participated in listen-only mode in the teleconference call Monday in which ACORN’s  allegedly independent “audit” was released. I regret it was difficult to make out what the players were saying. That’s because as the left ferociously circled the wagons, all the creaking wheel noises in the background ...
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• High Interest Rates on Consumer Debt - Why Isn’t It Criminal?

  
  The Consumer Warning Network — Authority: 120
  By Terry Smiljanich: How Banks Get Away with Charging Loan Shark Rates that Should be Criminal Bank of America, among others, charges up to 36% interest on credit card debt. How can financial institutions get away with charging consumers such historically high interest? Isn’t it criminal to do so? Isn’t it ...
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• RUBINS RUBES: Matt Taibbis slapdown of the Obama Administration

  
  The Economic Populist - Speak Your Mind 2 Cents at a Time — Authority: 558
  In the December issue of Rolling Stone the journalist Matt Taibbi hits yet another grand slam exposing the murky world of Wall Street and Washington politics (" Obamas Big Sellout ").  Taibbi provides a detailed and thoughtful analysis on the myriad connections between numerous Obama appointees and Robert Rubin, ...
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• Key To Obamas Popularity: Sucking Up To The Business Elite

  
  The New Republic - The Plank Feed — Authority: 141
  Ive always had a soft spot for Robert Rubin and the moderate, fiscally-conservative wing of economic officials associated with the Clinton administration. That said, this Wall Street Journal op-ed , by former Clinton deputy Treasury secretary Roger Altman, reads like a left-wingers parody of a moderate Democrat. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Ratigan Grills Propaganda Queen Christina Romer, Demands Windfall Profit Tax Clarity, Gets Blank Stare Response

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 739
  Ratigan cuts to the chase, bypassing the hollow rhetoric by Administration propaganda queen Christina Romer, who cant beat enough drums on todays pathologically ludicrous BLS numbers, yet is completely unwilling to discuss how the White House will proceed to recoup any of the taxpayer-subsidized windfalls at Wall ...
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