Karl Denninger on Strauss-Kahn, IMF, and more

His latest 30 minute podcast is on BlogTalkRadio now.

The IMF, Greece, the US Debt position (breach day is today, incidentally) and more. 30 minutes of, well, “grab the popcorn” discussion.

Denninger is co-founder of the original Tea Party, which was founded specifically in opposition to the bailouts of insolvent banks by the federal [...]

That means he apologizes after savaging a nation

Strauss-Kahn believed in healthy and robust regulation and monitoring. Strauss-Kahn has always been concerned about the human and national victims of an amoral global economic order.

I was discussing DSK and his approach at IMF yesterday with Steve Hynd, podcasting pal and blogger. Steve said, yeah, he’s like a Democrat, so he apologizes after he [...]

‘Strauss-Kahn is finished”. Let’s hope IMF is too

Spiegel details how the political career of DSK is over. He was widely expected to run for president of France as a socialist where he had a serious chance of winning. But he blew all that up with the apparent assault on the maid.

His lecherous behavior was an open secret yet the Socialist Party [...]

IMF head arrested for sodomizing maid

So let me see if I get this straight: The IMF, which has for decades sodomized various nations including Greece, has a head who allegedly enjoys head, and it is alleged that he doesn’t much care about this quaint concept known as “consent” either.

That doesn’t seem all that far out of character, to be [...]

Former IMF chief economist. Break up Wall Street

Teddy Roosevelt breaks up the trusts

Simon Johnson, former IMF chief economist, says the relationship between Wall Street and DC is too cozy. Clusterstock interviews him about the “two-way money-and-power corridor now running between Washington and the modern oligarchs Wall Street.”

Wall Street: “It’s Too Big, Too Powerful. It’s Dangerous” Simon argues that the [...]