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• What the Frock was the reason for TARP, TALF, etc. then?

  
  Angry Bear — Authority: 617
  Rahm Emanuel accidentally Tells the Truth and Shames the Devil : “We have to get them off the sidelines and get them to play a more active role in our economic recovery,” Rahm Emanuel, the White House chief of staff, said on Sunday. “They play an essential role in helping the economy grow.” Gosh, the ...
  14 hours ago

• Obama, Democrats Must Confront Deficit Monster

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 436
  In remarks to a health reform forum in March, Barack Obama acknowledged, ‘The greatest threat to America’s fiscal health … is the skyrocketing cost of health care.’ How he deals with this danger will... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  19 hours ago

• ERM Offers Competitive Compliance for Solvency II, Part I

  
  GCCapitalIdeas.com — Authority: 128
  Don Mango, Chief ActuaryContact(Re)insurers face a labyrinth of capital management challenges. Financial markets have proved that they can change the industry’s view of risk swiftly —... Continue reading...
  1 day ago

• Hoisted from Comments (thought not here)

  
  Angry Bear — Authority: 617
  Brad DeLong attempts to attack Matt Taibbis facts . Tao Jonesing replies in comments (DeLong starts; Jonesing in bold ) : The financial reform bill that just passed the House is not nearly as strong a bill as the Treasury wanted. The reason is not that Obama and Geithner did not push for a stronger bill, but ...
  1 day ago

• The Drug War Saved the System?

  
  Angry Bear — Authority: 617
  Charlie Stross talks about liquidity : What weve just seen, hidden in the euphemism here, is a confession that drug cartels and other organized criminals have gone on a $352Bn asset-buying spree — and the banks and regulators, world-wide, turned a blind eye to this because the alternative was to allow the banks to ...
  1 day ago

• Worried about Interest Rates? WHY?

  
  Angry Bear — Authority: 617
  Not only did the U.S. Treasury just sell $29 Billion worth of four-week bills at par (i.e., they got $29 Billion for them, and will return $29 Billion on 29 December), but the bid to cover ratio was over 5:1 (pdf link; had $154B in bids for $29B in securities). This is down 0.06% from last weeks auction (pdf ...
  5 days ago

• In Good News, the Race to the Bottom Got Harder

  
  Angry Bear — Authority: 617
  Remember the argument that we shouldnt tax people because theyll just move elsewhere? The British government appears not to believe it . Will the Geithner/Summers axis continue lying that "we cant do that"? Since it really is a Windfall Profit , taxing it seems a reasonable idea. And now we wont even be able to ...
  5 days ago

• We Report, You Lie

  
  Angry Bear — Authority: 617
  NYT headline: Audit Finds TARP Program Effective . Paragraph six of the same article: The Treasury’s lack of clarity about the program’s goals, the oversight panel said, made it hard to assess its overall effectiveness. Mr. Geithner is scheduled to testify on Thursday in his quarterly appearance before the ...
  5 days ago

• Myths, Scares, Lies, and Deadly Innocent Frauds: Part One

  
  Corrente — Authority: 619
  One characteristic of modern political and economic discourse is frequent asserting of beliefs about economics and money that have been variously described by some observers as myths , scares , lies , innocent frauds , and deadly innocent frauds . Innocent frauds was the courteous labeling of such beliefs by John ...
  6 days ago

• Myths, Scares, Lies, and Deadly Innocent Frauds: Part One

  
  All Life Is Problem Solving — Authority: 114
  One characteristic of modern political and economic discourse is frequent asserting of beliefs about economics and money that have been variously described by some observers as ‘myths’ , ‘ scares ‘, ‘lies’ , ‘innocent frauds’ , and ‘deadly innocent frauds’ . ‘Innocent frauds’ was the ...
  6 days ago

• Important News - Dec. 07

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 540
  Quarter Of Workforce Could Could End Up Becoming Temps Temporary workers could constitute up to 25% of the workforce in a few years. Contract employees who sign on with a firm for several weeks or months constitute about 8% of the workforce. Temps can easily be let go and can cost up to 30% less than regular ...
  1 week ago

• PSA: Worth Reading

  
  Angry Bear — Authority: 617
  While Henry and Brad DeLong noted some more silly prattling from a brain-dead economist , AB readers and those wanting to maintain their sanity* will prefer The New Decembrists , and new blog from The Epicurean Dealmaker and, presumably, others. Worth it for TEDs Reformist Manifesto alone. *I do not ...
  1 week ago

• Poodle Bites Own Tale

  
  Angry Bear — Authority: 617
  Larry Summerss Village Idiot: I was too right to give them EVERYTHING! And now theyre being MEAN to me.
  1 week ago

• Business in Credit Repair – How Good Can it Get?

  
  The Article Blog — Authority: 141
  There’s a huge business in credit repair ! No matter what the economic climate is, there are going to be lots of those who experience financial difficulties, who will need help with problem credit. When the economy is booming, people feel optimistic in regard to their finances, job, and social status, and thus are ...
  1 week ago

• I Tend to Describe this as "Unwarranted Optimism"

  
  Angry Bear — Authority: 617
  The Shrill One (tm - Brad DeLong) as Optimist : The result, then, will be high unemployment leading into the 2010 elections, and corresponding Democratic losses. These losses will be worse because Obama, by pursuing a uniformly pro-banker policy without even a gesture to popular anger over the bailouts, has ceded ...
  1 week ago

• Simple Answers to Simple Questions, Floyd Norris/GS Edition

  
  Angry Bear — Authority: 617
  Floyd Norris is Shocked! Shocked! to Find Goldman Sachs controls Congress as well as the Treasury. Where has he been for the past three years ? Imagine the reaction if, perhaps during the 1998 Asian financial crisis, a group of Republican legislators had threatened to block legislation unless a contributor to their ...
  1 week ago

• Quote of the Decade, if it goes the way I expect

  
  Angry Bear — Authority: 617
  I would much prefer to think that all of this is a matter of his life being in turmoil throughout this decade, rather than Larry Summers being right about anything. Scott McLemee on Cornell West , with a hat tip to Henry at CT .)
  1 week ago

• Morningstar Begins Rating Top U.S. Companies

  
  MyTownTalks — Authority: 534
  Melvin Baker - AHN Reporter Chicago, IL (AHN) - Morningstar Inc., a company best known for its ratings of mutual funds, announced Wednesday that it has begun evaluating the credit worthiness of Americas top 100 companies. The ratings are published on Morningstars website, morningstar.com, and can be accessed for free. ...
  1 week ago

• Five Ways to Achieve Competitive Compliance for Solvency II

  
  GCCapitalIdeas.com — Authority: 128
  Financial Intelligence TeamContactSolvency II compliance should provide more opportunity than burden … if executed properly. The ability to use approved internal models results in a Solvency... Continue reading...
  1 week ago

• Inflation Detour II: Crisis and Recovery across Great "Fluctuations"

  
  Angry Bear — Authority: 617
  We are now almost 24 months into the Great Recession. While many expect NBER will eventually say that The Great Recession ended several months ago, they have not yet. By contrast, the recession that began The Great Depression, per NBER, lasted 43 months . It seems only fair to compare the two, so I trust I can be ...
  2 weeks ago

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