Fed Hires Former Enron Lobbyist To Improve Its Image

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First Posted: 06- 5-09 11:50 AM   |   Updated: 06- 5-09 04:22 PM

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June 5 (Bloomberg) -- The Federal Reserve intends to hire a veteran lobbyist as it seeks to counter skepticism in Congress about the central bank's growing power over the U.S. financial system, people familiar with the matter said.

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June 5 (Bloomberg) -- The Federal Reserve intends to hire a veteran lobbyist as it seeks to counter skepticism in Congress about the central bank's growing power over the U.S. financial system, people...
June 5 (Bloomberg) -- The Federal Reserve intends to hire a veteran lobbyist as it seeks to counter skepticism in Congress about the central bank's growing power over the U.S. financial system, people...
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- ajax2 I'm a Fan of ajax2 22 fans permalink
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Is the Fed planning on transferring the bad debts to off shore, off the books accounts. Brilliant move, Enron the prequel.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:33 AM on 06/08/2009
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They have three "Maiden Lane LLC Tools" already set up to hide transactions so why not an ENRON account?

It ties in with the "Secret FED and its Secret owners!"

Audit the FED!

Audit the FED!

Audit the FED!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:53 PM on 06/14/2009

It's a shame they are hiring someone to improve their image. That's not a good sign. Although I will entertain the idea that perhaps they are misunderstood. After all, the press does a terrible job of covering the Fed, even the business press. It's all very glib and superficial. There's a poll on whether or not the Fed is likely monetize the debt at this blog site: http://.www.mindovermarket.blogspot.com

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:21 PM on 06/07/2009
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Five simple questions:

1. Why does the FED need to be defended? or What are you afraid of?
2. Why Enron as a source of help? or Are you as CR00KED as Enron?
3. What are you trying to hide from Americans? or Will America ever KNOW your Secrets?
4. Why is America the # 1 Debtor Nation? or Why do we have a Debt Driven Economy?
5. Why Have you chosen to ruin the 99% of Americans, as we are NOT yet a third world country, your normal target?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:35 PM on 06/07/2009
- yemaya I'm a Fan of yemaya 33 fans permalink

corporate lobbyists = vultures in suits

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:59 PM on 06/07/2009
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TIME TO REFORM CORRUPTION IN CAMPAIGN FUNDING SYSTEM

Simple Solution to PROTECT OUR Congress Members Votes so votes are NOT sold to Highest Bidders:

1. Setup a Government Contribution Acceptance and Funds Distribution Agency
2. Funnel all Political Contributions through this agency
3. Uses strict formulas for allocating funds to House+Senate Members
4. "Blindly" distribute lump sums twice per year to Politicians - No KNOWN SOURCES of funds!
5. Reserve part of funds for those New Candidates that meet campaign funding criteria
6. Two Term Limits for Senators
7. Four Term Limits for House Members

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:36 PM on 06/07/2009
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They should have branded everyone from Enron with a big "E" on their forehead as the new scarlet letter to warn people the kind of person they were dealing with. Sure there may have been some people there who were good and innocent, but they probably were laid off along the way as not being productive Enron employees.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:47 AM on 06/07/2009
- Viper I'm a Fan of Viper 222 fans permalink

Paul Krugman was a finanical consultant to Enron.. for years... his son was an employee there.

Never complained about banking system when the Enron loophole was passed and he worked for Phil Gramms wife on the Enron Board or when he was asupported of outsourcing of American jobs to low wage countries..

Regards

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:58 PM on 06/07/2009
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Are you refering to the four days and $37,500 dollars he was paid while working for those four days on a panel of economists at Enron. Four days is not equivelent to a year.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:50 PM on 06/07/2009
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Wow, I think that is the best non sequitur I have seen all day, or all week for that matter.

Support HR 1207, audit these bast*rds.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:19 AM on 06/07/2009
- StephenJK I'm a Fan of StephenJK 21 fans permalink

When will the real revolt start? And proceeding declaration of martial law? WE, the people, are heading to 3rd world status anyway. What do we have to lose?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:58 AM on 06/07/2009

We have a government and all of it's systems completely out of control. I stand it Awe of how messed up these people who have been allowed into government have become. Maybe North Korea should just nuke us.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:25 PM on 06/06/2009
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BIRDS OF A FEATHER FLOCK TOGETHER!

This says more OPENLY about the FED than we already know about this secret organization of the EL1TE Bankers of the World (at least four countries) who rule our oligarchy!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:45 PM on 06/06/2009
- StephenJK I'm a Fan of StephenJK 21 fans permalink

Birds? More like filthy animals.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:45 AM on 06/07/2009
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protozoic slime....

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:43 AM on 06/07/2009

The more things change, the more they stay exactly the same!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:20 PM on 06/06/2009

Usurping the right and duty of Congress, evidently with the approval of incompetent administration must be wrapped in a policy that compells the negligent Congress to applaud their new role as debating and conspiring rather than making policy and appropriating funds for that function.
Bernacke and his nest of vipers are absolutely correct in the virtue of presenting a front of proprietary purity as they cut out the heart of self governance. With hardly a murmur, the American democracy is cut off from its source of authority and sustenance. It is a tragedy of a democracy destroying itself for lack of committment, courage or selflessness. I have a difficult time sleeping at night.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:01 PM on 06/06/2009
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HR 1207!! HR1207!!.

The Wizard of Oz the Fed) has been exposed and are feeling a little more pressure.

The Federal Reserve Bank, Wall Street, and the DC puppets (DFL & GOP) have been playing on the misinformed public for 25 years. The U.S. government has handed over $10 trillion of taxpayer dollars to Wall Street while allowing bailout recipient Board members and CEOs to walk away unscathed.
Change does not come voluntarily, but by DEMAND, power concedes nothing without demand.

These international bankers, investment firms are parasites sucking the life blood out of the American prosperity. The country would be better off if the Fed was destroyed and the NYSE was moved to the Vegas strip. Give the American public a bailout and debt forgiveness to stimulate the economy.

This economic Depression is the responsibility of a few elites at the very top of the pyramid, sitting in the oval office, and in halls of Congress. The Bush & Obama administration asks the American public to sacrifice while handing over our future to the international bankers. They want us to writeoff our dreams and future for the sake of the ruling elites.

The pot is beginning to boil over, and poverty knows no color. How long before the economy collapses as more and more Americans default on credit cards, mortgages, etc.?

Support HR 1207, by Ron Paul, the Federal Transparency Act of 2009!!!! 190 co-sponsors and counting!!!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:01 PM on 06/06/2009
- kamachanda I'm a Fan of kamachanda 25 fans permalink

Oh great, now we're going to tap Enron for talent. Organized fraud anyone?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:01 PM on 06/06/2009
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Andrew Jackson, Lincoln and Kennedy were all shot trying to end the cancer that is a private central bank.

"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." - Thomas Jefferson, 1802

"The real truth of the matter is, and you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government of the U.S. since the days of Andrew Jackson. History depicts Andrew Jackson as the last truly honorable and incorruptible American president." -- President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, November 23, 1933 in a letter to Colonel Edward Mandell House

"Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money and control credit, and with a flick of a pen they will create enough to buy it back." -- Sir Josiah Stamp, former President, Bank of England

"Give me control over a nation's currency and I care not who makes its laws." -- Baron M.A. Rothschild (1744 - 1812)

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:59 PM on 06/06/2009
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All EXCELLENT POINTS!

Jackson is my personal favorite! He died at 78 of TB in Nashville!

So a president can beat the BANKERS and live a long life!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:50 PM on 06/06/2009
- StephenJK I'm a Fan of StephenJK 21 fans permalink

Well, we definitely won't see any president try to beat the bankers in this day and age. Not after what they did to JFK.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:27 AM on 06/07/2009
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Yes, Jackson called them a "den of vipers" and stated publicly to their faces that he knew they were behind his assassination attempts.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:49 AM on 06/07/2009
- LunaPark I'm a Fan of LunaPark 14 fans permalink

They're afraid of the pending audit (HR1207 and S 604). The PRIVATE banks will try to convince the American people that auditing the Federal Reserve is dangerous, that doing so will expose the agency to political influence, that the world will come to an end. DON'T BELIEVE IT! We have a right to know where our tax dollars are going.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:13 PM on 06/06/2009
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