Conservatives and progressives worked together to support Senator Sanders in his quest to have the Federal Reserve audited. Kudos to Senator Sanders. We took a big step forward in reclaiming our nation today. Bloomberg reporting… ~~~ “The Senate approved an amendment to the regulatory-overhaul bill authorizing a one-time audit of the Federal Reserve’s emergency-lending programs, [...]
The Dodd bill (Senate bill 3271) grants enormous new powers to the Federal Reserve. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont is filing an amendment (S. 3738) to “audit the Fed” which currently has fifteen cosponsors. America needs ponder if a private, independent institution should control such a substantial part of financial system without complete and thorough [...]
Excellent table via Rortybomb… although it’s actually 7 or 8 things worth fighting for in the Senate financial reform bill… Mr. Rortybomb misses a big one related to legislation on the Federal Reserve… Ryan Grim of HuffPo writes about it the grant of $4 trillion of lending authority to the Federal Reserve with no Congressional [...]
It’s so refreshing to see this lovely video of Senator Blanche Lincoln talk about her derivatives reform legislation… here is her draft… Somehow I sense the hand of CFTC Chairman Gensler in this process… and the spirit of House Agriculture Chairman Collin Peterson… yes… substantive forces to rein in Wall Street on derivatives are at [...]
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The House of Commons Treasury Committee Ninth Report of Session 2009–10 Report, together with formal minutes Ordered by the House of Commons, to be published 22 March 2010 Too important to fail– too important to ignore Summary The banking crisis of the last two years resulted in government support for the sector around the world amounting to almost a [...]
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Bloomberg reports on the Senate’s failure on it’s first try to address the burgeoning fiscal crisis facing the United States. The Senate voted 53-46 against legislation that would have mandated that Congress adopt recommendations made by a newly created budget panel. This panel could have recommended tax increases, changes in entitlements or other structural changes. First strike for [...]
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From the FT … US GDP (purchasing power parity): $14.29 trillion (2008 est.) $14.11 trillion (2007) $13.83 trillion (2006) Well… inflation now?
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
An unknown Wall Streeter says that Treasury Secretary Geithner and the Obama economic team are the Emperor with no clothes… if this guy is saying it… everyone is saying it… From Bloomberg… Doug Dachille, chief executive officer of First Principles Capital Management LLC, talks with Pimm Fox about the U.S. government’s decision to provide additional aid to GMAC [...]
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Wednesday, December 30, 2009
As we think about renewing our economy in 2010 figures like these are critical to examine … and we should review whether the tax code benefits firms who offshore jobs… maybe the government should publish a monthly list of companies, by name, that are exporting jobs and the number of jobs shipped overseas… maybe consumers [...]
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Three cheers for Arrianna Huffington, political strategist Alexis McGill, filmmaker/author Eugene Jarecki, and Nick Penniman of the HuffPost Investigative Fund… for this great campaign to encourage everyone to move their banking to local banks and credit unions… From HuffPo — “The idea is simple: If enough people who have money in one of the big four [...]
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