interfluidity.com - 24 days ago
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It worked! Officials pointed to a lot of good news in terms of visible cash flows associated with TARP and the various assistance programs. They claimed that since the Obama administration has taken office, more money has come back than has been put into the financial system (although what ...
nytimes.com - 22 days ago
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Finacial blogger impressions
Angry Bear —
... Steve Waldman at Interfluidity has written an impression of The financial blogger meeting with senior Treasury officials of last Monday. He also provides links to other main posts by those who attended. It is worth a visit. ...
The Seductions of Proximity to Power
Once Upon a Time... —
... , I was directed to this perceptive and highly interesting account of a meeting between a group of economics bloggers and "senior Treasury officials." A list of the invited bloggers ...
Tab dump
Ezra Klein —
1) Spencer Ackerman takes us deep inside the administration's Afghanistan process.
2) Mark Schmitt proclaims himself a "Title IX dad."
3) Stephen Waldman's very meta take on his sit-down with the Treasury Department.
4) Health care has now been endorsed by AARP, the American Medical Association, the AFL-CIO and more advocacy groups than I can count. Obama says he's "extraordinarily pleased."
5) Is culinary school worth it?
Recipe of the day: "Pasta with cauliflower" doesn't sound particularly exciting, ...
links for 2009-11-09
J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles —
... FrumForum: A Note to Readers
Steve Waldmann: Sympathy for the Treasury
Cosma Shalizi: The Shadow Price of Power ...
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Treasury Inc.: The Shadow National Debt
volokh.com 10/20/2009 — (SPOILER…This post describes how most of the NATIONAL DEBT and BUDGET DEFICIT is being FRAUDULENTLY HIDDEN by the OBAMA ADMINISTRATION)
It has been a rare opportunity to share with this forum my new paper, Treasury Inc.: How the Bailout ...
Cut Their Pay and Send Them Home
powerlineblog.com 10/22/2009 — Today "compensation czar" Kenneth Feinberg announced the Obama administration's plan to punish executives of companies that received TARP money by cutting their compensation by an average of 90 percent:
Under the plan, which will be announced ...
Watchdog excoriates execution of TARP
usatoday.com 10/21/2009 — "The American people's belief that the funds went into a black hole, or that there was a transfer of wealth from taxpayers to Wall Street, is one of the worst outcomes of this program, and that is the reputational damage to the government," said Neil ...
TARP 195
americanfreepress.net 10/4/2009 — ‘TARP’ Turning Out to Be Largest Taxpayer Swindle in U.S. History rss202 CONGRESS AND THE WHITE HOUSE have been busy lately patting themselves on the back for staving off financial armageddon by handing out taxpayer money to Wall Street like it was ...
Can Conservatives Govern?
frumforum.com 17 days ago — At a gathering last night, I was defending the point that the TARP and some kind of fiscal stimulus had been absolutely essential last year - that otherwise the world economy might have plunged into Depression. The dominant view in the conservative ...
Treasury Incorporated
volokh.com 10/14/2009 — As a longtime fan of The Volokh Conspiracy, it’s a particular honor to join you today. I admit spending much class time in law school surfing Volokh rather than taking notes, and it was often a wiser investment (not true for my students of ...
TARP Report – “We don’t even know where the money went”
qando.net 10/22/2009 — S o let’s give them health care too!
Sorry, couldn’t help myself. The quote in the title is from Democratic Representative Daniel Lipinski of IL. It’s a good preface to a Treasury Department Inspector General report issued today ...
Is a Pay Czar constitutional?
faustasblog.com 30 days ago — Those of us who are asking whether a “czar”, who is not under Congressional oversight, is allowed under the Constitution to set wages in private industry have an answer by Michael McConnell:
The Pay Czar Is Unconstitutional
Kenneth Feinberg hasn’t been confirmed by the U.S. ...
Why Wall Street Reform is Stuck in Reverse
huffingtonpost.com 10/22/2009 — At a conference in London, a Goldman Sachs international adviser, Brian Griffiths, praised inequality. As his company was putting aside $16.7 billion for compensation and benefits in the first nine months of 2009, up 46 percent from a year earlier, ...
Obama agenda: Stimulus count issues? —
First Read 24 days ago
"The government’s latest tally of stimulus jobs counted pay increases for existing workers as jobs saved in a popular federal preschool program, raising fresh questions about the process the Obama administration is using to tout the success of its ...
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