"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
The web of known parties guilty of fraud, coercion, or securities manipulation keeps getting bigger … I am 100% in favor of allowing Geithner to defend himself … In a court of law, for securities fraud. And as I have…
Ah, to see the day when various other Central Bankers see criminal charges filed against them for insubordination. Bernanke, Geithner, and Paulson being frog-marched in manacles? Could happen. Especially after today’s revelations about Geithner ordering AIG to ignore SEC regulations…
This is all over financial blogs this morning. The chief beneficiary here was Goldman and the other investment banks. This latest revelation confirms the Fed’s commitment to secrecy and, although troubling, at this point should come at no surprise. The…
Taibbi slams Geithner, Obama, and the banksters Not only are the mop-headed weenie of a Treasury secretary’s fingerprints on virtually all the gross giveaways in the new reform legislation, he’s a living symbol of the Rubinite gangrene crawling up the…
During the collapse of AIG, their credit default swap unit was negotiating with banks who had bought $62 billion in CDS and CDOs from them. AIG wanted the banks to accept discounts of up to 40%. Instead, the New York…