Neil Barofsky, who served as the special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program from December of 2008 to February 14, 2011, has a new...
George Clooney is set to produce -- and perhaps direct -- "700 Billion Man," a new film about the 2008 financial crisis and the subsequent government ...
There's only one problem with the argument that Social Security spending "drives out" education and other budget items: Those aging people have paid into a self-sustaining program for their entire working lives.
Remember Neel Kashkari? Back during the financial crisis, Kashkari sat at the U.S. Treasury's Office of Financial Stability, where he was in charge o...
Jan. 29 (Bloomberg) -- BlackRock Inc., the world's biggest money manager, hired former Treasury official and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. banker Kendrick ...
This weekend's Face Of The Recession is Goldman Sachs's own Kashkari, late of the U.S. Treasury's Office of Financial Stability, where he was in charge of the implementation, such as it was, of the TARP.
The moon hits his stubble, which is six days old. And the sweater he hasn't changed in three or four days. His BlackBerry -- he can't kick it -- rang ...
When it comes to bank bailouts, the Obama administration is continuing right where the Bush administration left off, says the former high-ranking offi...
As we stand by watching Henry Paulson use our taxpayer dollars for the government's leveraged buyout of Goldman Sachs, I am struck by the audacity of greed.
The indignation over AIG will serve a useful purpose if it focuses public attention on the much larger issue of the failure of the entire approach that Tim Geithner and Larry Summers are using to rescue the banking system.
In the early days, every public official associated with TARP--the $700 billion Targeted Asset Relief Program--promised openness and transparency.
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Was it too much to ask Congress to examine this government intervention in the free market critically before authorizing the transfer of US taxpayer dollars to benefit the banking sector?
It was a rough week for Neel Kashkari -- during the hearing this past Wednesday, titled the "Oversight Concerns Regarding Treasury Department Conduct ...
WASHINGTON -- The Treasury Department has failed to address a number of critical issues while implementing the $700 billion financial rescue plan, inc...
WASHINGTON - President-elect Barack Obama has made his most important Treasury Department personnel choice, but Timothy Geithner has big personnel cha...
This explains why he got such a harsh grilling the other day in Congress. Nobody likes a pretty boy!
Wonder if he knew in his Ferrari-posing high sch...
The Bush administration is squandering hundreds of billions of dollars on incompetence again -- the whole thing is beginning to look a little too much like Iraq.
Assistant Secretary of Treasury Neel Kashkari, the man in charge of the bailout, went to Washington, DC, today to testify in Congress. They didn't exa...
When it came time for questions, the former Goldman Sachs executive told the eager audience that he had time for just "two or three."
In response to ...