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Read His Lips: Some New Taxes? (AUDIO)
(airamerica.com)
On the Sunday talkers, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Larry Summers, director of the National Economic Council, both alluded to the fact that President Barack Obama might have to raise taxes... More
Submitted 7 months ago by saramediaconsortium | 0 Comments |
Will Larry Summers Be The Next Fed Chairman? (VIDEO) | Air America Media
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Insiders are saying that Obama chief economist Larry Summers has his eye on becoming the next chairman of the Federal Reserve System, though many in the White House like current chair Ben Bernanke and... More
Submitted 7 months ago by saramediaconsortium | 0 Comments |
Obama’s Economic Misfits Finally Get It
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On Monday, two men with considerable responsibility for enabling the banking meltdown confronted the error of their ways. Not directly, of course, for accountability is hardly the mark of either... More
Submitted 9 months ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |
Obama Push For Unified Financial Oversight Continues
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An opinion piece co-written by Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and Senior Financial Advisor Lawrence Summers in today's Washington Post is the first big push after many nudges toward a unified... More
Submitted 9 months ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |
Let's Banish Larry Summers
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Yesterday, the Washington Post's excellent Sunday Outlook section featured a "Spring Cleaning Special" in which ten writers were given the chance to make the case for something that deserves to be... More
Submitted 11 months ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |
SUMMERS IS BAILING OUT HIS FINANCIAL CRONIES
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Obama and his financial team keep telling us that their Wall Street bailout is all about Main Street – not about the financial elites. I'm sure you're deeply honored to be at the center of their... More
Submitted 11 months ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |
Bailout Bandits
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In these days of “bank stablization plans” (bailouts for fat cats) and “overseas contingency operations” (wars), Americans who celebrated President Obama’s victory last November...
Submitted 11 months ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |
Living Large and in Charge
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Not surprisingly, Lawrence Summers is convinced that he deserved every penny of the $8 million that Wall Street firms paid him last year. And why shouldn’t he be cut in on the loot from the... More
Submitted 11 months ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |
Wall Street Showered Obama’s Top Economic Adviser With Riches
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Lawrence Summers is the man President Obama turns to for insight into the economy, so it’s more than a little disturbing that the very financial institutions the taxpayers are now rescuing—to the... More
Submitted 11 months ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |
Biden v. Summers
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Dick Cheney used to brag about leaving the office of the president "stronger than we found it," and in some perverse, narrow sense he probably accomplished that for his office of vice president. The... More
Submitted about 1 year ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |

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