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• Has The Gold Bubble Burst? Either Way, Geithner Is Now Scroomed

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 756
  A 4% move in 4 hours. At least with the gold bubble out of the way, stocks are fully apprised of what to anticipate. Somewhere Tim Geithner is congratulating himself for a strong dollar job well done. Of course, this does little to resolve the several trillion of worthless crap on bank balance sheets whose "value" ...
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• Obama May Use TARP Leftovers for Jobs Boost

  
  Today With President Barack Obama — Authority: 152
  Geithner wants to use TARP funds to reduce the national debt and Pelosi wants to use it for jobs: President Obama is likely to endorse using a portion of the governments $700 billion financial bailout for a new jobs creation program during a speech about the economy next week, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told ...
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• ISTOCK ANALYST: Buffett And Geithner

  
  Everything Warren Buffett — Authority: 486
  By: Baseline Scenario Friday, December 04, 2009 10:11 AM Andrew Ross Sorkins Too Big to Fail sure is a page-turner; even for events that I already knew about in general, its full of new details and juicy quotations. For example, on page 508 it lays out the details of Warren Buffetts October 2008 proposal for ...
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• BofA RETURNING BAILOUT CASH ... ITS SMOKE & MIRRORS

  
  THE MARK MARTINEZ SHOW: Talk Radio for Liberals and Real Conservatives — Authority: 128
  So Bank of America is paying the American government $45 billion . Sounds like great news, huh? The "road to recovery" others will argue. Well, hang on to your wallets. Its all smoke mirrors ... QUICK OVERVIEW BofA is saying that they will use $26.2 billion of its own money to pay down what they borrowed ...
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• Pelosi pushes global financial fee (Politico)

  
  enUws — Authority: 172
  Politico – She talked about it with Geithner, and says he’s more open to the idea than had been More: (Politico)"> (Politico)">Pelosi pushes global financial fee (Politico)
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• Nancy Pelosi pushes (global) financial transaction fee

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Speaker Nancy Pelosi gave her strongest endorsement yet of a global financial transaction fee Thursday after raising the issue directly with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner in a conversation this week. Geithner was widely seen as opposing such a levy when it was proposed by Gordon Brown, the British prime ...
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• Al Jazeera notes US Media more interested in Mickey Mouse than the Taliban

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 137
  I am not surprised by the US media but found this Al Jazeera story interesting. Youd have been hard pressed to find much coverage of the Obama troop announcement on Wednesdays American breakfast TV. I know this because our North America editors had asked me to watch the US breakfast shows, in case there was a story ...
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• Obama finds new excuse to escape the Oval Office and fly on AF1

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 137
  His "White House to Main Street" photo-op tour will not fix his inept handling of the economy. Under pressure from Republicans and an impatient public to fix the sputtering economic recovery, President Barack Obama is refocusing on this politically potent issue by talking job creation with business and labor ...
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• USDA says PETA is a terrorist threat

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 137
  ”Plants have feelings. Be a Carnivore.” Says People for the Ethical Treatment of Plants (PETP). People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has been classified as a “terrorist threat” in a document created by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The USDA created a new “APHIS Facility Security Profile” ...
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• Obama Tells Unemployed They’re Not a Priority; Republicans Call for New Hoover

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 748
  Herbert Hoover, 31st President, by Douglas Chandor (photo: cliff1066) Early reports from the mis-named “Jobs Summit” convey the discouraging message that the Obama Administration doesn’t think dramatic and rapid reductions in unemployment are a high priority. Obama told the Summit attendees that the federal ...
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• The Fed and the Treasury leading us right to Great Depression 2.

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 157
  So far, our government’s response to the financial crisis has been total denial, lack of transparency, and unwillingness to upset or anger financial power players and corporate elites. Half measures combined with wishful thinking and a wait-and-see attitude is not going to cut it. The U.S.Treasury as well as the ...
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• H.R. 4172: The Liberals Do Not Get To Have Their Cake And Eat It Too!

  
  Logistics Monster — Authority: 481
  Yes, It’s Real!  When I first read this bill, I laughed so hard I cried, and my son was concerned that I had just completely gone around the bend. Then, I thought, they are spending our money to put forth legislation like H.R. 4172. I cannot decide whether this is a good investment or [...]
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• Geithner: The Financial Crisis Will Be Solved “At A Dramatically Lower Cost Than We Initially Anticipated”

  
  Wall Street Pit — Authority: 639
  Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner spoke to FOX Business Network’s (FBN) Liz Claman and said that we will be able to “solve this financial crisis at a dramatically lower cost than we initially anticipated” and that the U.S. taxpayers have made money on banks paying back TARP.Watch the latest...
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• Bear vs. Ninja: Nota Bene #2009-43

  
  Scholars and Rogues — Authority: 605
  “Overture, curtain, lights / This is it. We’ll hit the heights / And oh, what sites we’ll hit / On with the links, this is it!” Enjoy! … “When he was on an operating table with his chest cracked open, everyone assumed Command Sgt. Maj. Thompson’s long Army career was over ” … “I felt at that ...
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• Latest Good Reads

  
  Roni Deutch: The Tax Lady Blog — Authority: 434
  On the Tax Travails of the famous and would-be famous GOP Introduces Geithner Penalty Waiver Act Guidance For Taxpayers With Rental Property A Lesson for California from South Dakota The Obey War Tax Proposal: Sensible?
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• Washington in 60 Seconds: Michael Steele Calls Obama P.R. Presidency

  
  EndrTimes — Authority: 446
  Patricia Murphy Columnist Washington in 60 Seconds: Michael Steele Calls Obama P.R. Presidency Posted: 12/3/09 The Capitolist Good morning, Capitolists! Congress goes from high to low today as it turns its attention from the war in Afghanistan to the war of words between the White House and the Secret ...
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• 135 Billion Pieces of Zero Yielding Junk On Deck

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 756
  Unprecedented economic collapse? €0.69... Unsustainable budget deficits? 1 ounce of gold... Immaculately inexperienced administration? One Larry Summers bowel movement... For everything else there is Tim Geithner. And Tim is on fire - here is the sliced bread, er, Treasury auction line up for next week: $30 ...
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• Leading American economists back campaign for Tobin tax

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Modest taxes on financial trading would reduce damaging speculation while raising $150bn Andrew Clark New York More than 200 American economists have thrown their weight behind a campaign for a so-called Tobin tax on financial transactions, adding weight to pressure on the Obama administration to consider an ...
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• Tim Geithner’s Threat: We Can’t Survive Without the Super-Rich!

  
  The Awl — Authority: 770
  Things will be allowed to be stable again in America only when executive pay is restored to its ludicrous bubble value. Writes Felix Salmon : “People who were comfortable with seven- and eight-figure salaries a couple of years ago have a natural tendency to want to return to the status quo ante ; the rest of us ...
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• Tim Geithner on CNBC – Deficits Down in 2011

  
  Square Feet — Authority: 550
  Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner was on CNBC. He talks about pockets of strength in the economy, including technology and exports. If those are the only two, we’re in trouble because those two are driven by a weak dollar and rebuilding of inventory channels.The basic strategy involves “going back to living within ...
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