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huffingtonpost.com - 11/2/2009
Why Keep Geithner?
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A year ago it was revealed to the American people that our banking system was a legalized Ponzi scheme in which bank and insurance CEOs paid themselves billions of dollars in personal compensation to lend and insure assets with money they didn't have to customers who couldn't pay back the loans. ...
Geithner Backstairs Intrigue Awarded $13 Billion Directly to Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch (RIP), Société Générale and Deutsche Bank
reason.com - 10/27/2009
Geithner Backstairs Intrigue Awarded $13 Billion Directly to Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch (RIP), ...
— reason.com — Here's something Goldman Sachs, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, American International Group's former... CFO, and Goldman's former chairman have all declined to comment on: While negotiating how much ... (more) Geithner Backstairs Intrigue Awarded $13 Billion ...

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huffingtonpost.com - 10/28/2009
Robert Reich: Breaking Up the Big Banks, and Why Congress Won't Do It
— huffingtonpost.com — And now there are five -- five Wall Street behemoths, bigger than they were before the Great... Meltdown, paying fatter salaries and bonuses to retain their so-called"talent," and raking in huge profits. The biggest difference between now and last ... (more) Robert Reich: Breaking Up the Big Banks, and Why ...

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thehill.com - 11/2/2009
Cantwell 'not sure' why Geithner has job
— thehill.com — Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) said that she's "not sure" why Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner still has a... job on Monday morning. Cantwell ripped into the financial reforms put forth by Geithner and the Obama administration as "appalling" for including ... (more) Cantwell 'not sure' why Geithner has job

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Home/News — ... The Democratic Cantwell's questioning of Geithner, who works for a Democratic administration, came at the prodding of Ratigan, who agitated for the secretary's firing in a blog for the Huffington Post on Monday. ...

Cantwell 'not sure' why Geithner has job
News — ... The Democratic Cantwell's questioning of Geithner, who works for a Democratic administration, came at the prodding of Ratigan, who agitated for the secretary's firing in a blog for the Huffington Post on Monday. ...

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