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Obama's Economic Misfits Finally Get It

Robert Scheer | Posted 07.18.2009 | Business

Read More: House, Government, Politics, Law, Greed, Geithner, Congress, White House, Money, Clinton, Economy, Scheer, Regulation, Banks, Obama, Campaign, Summers, Wall Street, Business News
Robert Scheer

According to Summers and Geithner, the Obama plan to be revealed today promises that all derivatives dealers will be "subject to supervision, and regulators will be empowered to enforce rules against manipulation and abuse."

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A Republican to Save Us

Robert Scheer | Posted 07.10.2009 | Business

Read More: Tarp, Corruption, Law, Geithner, Fdic, Bush, Money, Clinton, Economy, Scheer, Obama, Government, Politics, Bailout, Citibank, Rubin, Sheila Bair, Business News
Robert Scheer

You probably don't know much about Sheila Bair, but she is looking out for you, and that is why the big guys on Wall Street and their allies in the Obama administration are out to get her.

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Reagan Didn't Do It

Robert Scheer | Posted 07.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Reagan, Law, Congress, Clinton, Meltdown, Economy, Derivatives, Krugman, Scheer, Obama, Summers, Democrats, Politics, White House, Brooksley Born, Treasury, Rubin, Gramm-Leach-Bliley, Wall Street, Republicans, Politics News
Robert Scheer

Ronald Reagan's signing off on legislation easing mortgage requirements back in 1982 pales in comparison to the damage wrought 15 years later.

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Thievery Under the TARP

Robert Scheer | Posted 05.22.2009 | Business

Read More: Inspector General, Geithner, Goldman Sachs, Barofsky, Paulson, Treasury Department, Scheer, Aig, Tarp, Business News
Robert Scheer

A new scathing report by the Treasury Department's special inspector general claims that the aptly named Troubled Asset Relief Fund bailout program is rife with mismanagement and potential for fraud.

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No Tough Love for Wall Street

Robert Scheer | Posted 03.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Scheer, Timothy Geithner, Mortgage, Barack Obama, Bailout, Wall Street, Lawrence Summers, Treasury, Financial Crisis, Politics News
Robert Scheer

For all the brave talk about transparency and accountability Geithner gave the swindlers who got us into this mess yet another blank check to buy up the "toxic assets" they gleefully created.

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Running for War President at Any Cost

Robert Scheer | Posted 09.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Russia, Mccain, Economy, Polamd, Scheer, Georgia, Pornography of Power, Anti-Missile, Vladmir Putin, John McCain, Mikheil Saakashvili, Politics News
Robert Scheer

McCain needs a new Cold War. He can win only as a war president. He neither knows nor cares much about the economic meltdown, the consequence of the deregulation mania that he supports.

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