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Wall Street’s Happy Conspiracy

October 5, 2010

Continuing with his series on America’s Second Revolution, Paul Farrell writing for MarketWatch today declares that the Federal Reserve’s demise  predicted by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the “Black Swan” author, that “The Fed won’t exist in 25 years…” has accelerated to 2020 or as early as 2012 because it has become a pawn of Wall Street’s Happy [...]

Tagged as: Allen Greenspan, Ben Bernanke, Black Swan, Demise of Federal Reserve 2012, Goldman-Sachs, Hank Paulson, Keynesian Deficit Spending, MarketWatch, Michael Boskin, Nassim Taleb, Obama, Paul Farrell, Paul Krugman, Possible Second American Revolution, Thomas Friedman, Timothy Geithner, Tom Friedman, Transformation of Private Debt to Public Debt, Wall Street, Wall Street's Happy Conspiracy

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The Problem With Reassuring That The Recovery Is In Full Swing Is…

April 29, 2010

The media blitz is going full throttle with ads of GMC’s CEO Ed Whitacre walking through a plant pronouncing that GMC has paid back its’ loan part of the bailout, namely $6.7 billion, however the taxpayer is still on the hook for $43 billion in stock options; the reporting of the minor dip in shares [...]

Tagged as: bailout, butasforme.com, economic recovery, Financial Institutions, Financial Reform Bill, GM CEO Ed Whitacre, GM's loan payback, Goldman-Sachs, lobbyists, Obama's Policy of Reassurance, Reformed Liberal, Spin, Spin Doctors Go To Work, State of the Economy, States Impoverished, States Revenues, Taxes, Timothy Geithner

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Reiterating The Status Quo (VIDEO)

March 28, 2010

Is it time to Reform the Reformers? Bill Moyers interviewing Pulitizer Prize Winning Author Gretchen Morgenson on the ability of Obama’s Administration to reform the financial system that created the near collapse in 2008 points out that current attempts at reform by the Obama Administration with key players such as Geithner, Summers, et al and [...]

Tagged as: Derivitative Reform, Economic Crisis Still Brewing, economic recovery, Financial Reform, Larry Summers, Reform of Banks, Robert Gibbs, Timothy Geithner

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