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Why Are the Fed and SEC Keeping Wall Street’s Secrets?

April 3, 2012

Getting what should be public information about major Wall Street firms can be maddeningly difficult. Bloomberg News discovered this in its ultimately successful effort to get information on the $1.2 trillion in “secret loans” the Fed doled out during the financial crisis. And I’ve had no small experience of it myself. As I started each of [...]

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Banker STUNNED by Tough Questions From Irish Journalist Vincent Browne

April 3, 2012

Irish journalist Vincent Browne confronts the ECB’s (European Central Bank) Klaus Masuch demanding to know where the money is going. The fireworks start at 3:15 or so. “Why are the Irish people required to pay BILLIONS to un-guaranteed Bong holders under threat to the ECB? You people are intervening in this society causing huge damage [...]

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A Sunday Word

April 1, 2012

“But the Lord is Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty”     (2 Corinthians 3:17).

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The Creepy Obama Presidency

March 30, 2012

Normally this writer doesn’t follow Peggy Noonan, the former speechwriter for President Reagan, except for her occasional appearance as a voice of opposition on a weekly mainstream national political newscast show; however, her op-ed piece today in the Wall Street Journal encapsulates what we have been writing about since 2008 about our fears concerning an Obama [...]

Tagged as: Election of 2012, Obama, Obama Care, Peggy Noonan, Republicans, Wall Street Journal

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Despite Dodd-Frank, Nation Remains At Risk

March 28, 2012

The economic crash of 2008 spotlighted the cost of leaving derivatives unregulated, controlled by a few large banks.  Despite the much touted  reform of Wall Street by President Obama with passage of Dodd-Frank, the derivative market remains unregulated and thus  still poses a threat of catastrophic economic failure  as  reported this week in an editorial [...]

Tagged as: banks, Derivatives, Dodd Frank Not Fully Enforced, Manufacturing At Risk, N.Y.Times, Pensions Remain At Risk

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Man Arrested For Pointing His Finger At Cops

March 27, 2012

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Former Goldman Sachs Exec Resigns Over Firm’s Policy To “Hunt Elephants”

March 14, 2012

In an Op-ed post for The New York Times, former 12 years Goldman Sachs exec and trader Greg Smith resigned today publicly stating that Goldman Sachs has lost sight of doing business to protect the interests of its’ clients  but rather to  “Hunt Elephants… get your clients — some of whom are sophisticated, and some [...]

Tagged as: goldman sachs greg smith resigns, goldman sachs immorality, greed and wall street, money, Reformed Liberal

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News As It Breaks Live: Gingrich Projected Winner In Georgia. Santorum Wins North Dakota, Tennessee & Oklahoma. Romney Wins Ohio, Idaho, Vermont, Virginia & Massachusetts..

March 6, 2012

CNN is  declaring Newt Gingrich as victorious in Georgia with significant 45%  over  Romney’s second place showing. Romney is leading in Virginia and Vermont, with Ron Paul in second place in Virginia at 42%.  Exit polls show 54% of Republicans voting in Vermont identified themselves as moderate or liberal Republicans. Early polls showing Santorum leading [...]

Tagged as: News As It Breaks Live

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Dow Falls 200+ Points

March 6, 2012

With continued worries over the European Union and a possible default by Greece, a recent rise in gasoline prices, growing concerns about Syria and Iran, and an economic slowdown in China, the Dow dropped over 204 points today.  Although the EU, oil, and Middle East pose real concerns as the U.S. recovery struggles,  a possible [...]

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Breaking News: Santorum Falls Short & Concedes Michigan To Romney

February 28, 2012

At this hour with about 30,000 votes separating the winner of the Michigan Primary, Mitt Romney, from opponent,  Rick Santorum it appears that the Santorum robo-call urging Democrats to cross party lines has backfired on him with exit polls showing that Democrats were enraged at Santorum’s comments on JFK’s speech on the separation of church [...]

Tagged as: Michigan Demos Vote Against Santorum, Romney Still has Not Defined Himself, Romney Wins Michigan & Arizona, Romney's Michigan Speech On Message Against Obama & Economy, Santorum Concedes Michigan, Santorum robo-call, Santorum's JFK remairk cost him in Michigan

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Possible U.S. Aerial Blockade of Syria

February 27, 2012

In light of leading from behind during the Arab Spring, President Obama may be taking a page from the Clinton Doctrine developed as a response to the Bosnian genocide and ethnic cleansing in the 1990′s by mounting an aerial blockade of Syria similar to the 1995  U.S./NATO intervention. The Clinton (President Clinton) Doctrine states:  “The [...]

Tagged as: arab spring, Asharq Al-Awsat, Clinton Doctrine, President Clinton Foreign Policy Doctrine In Respoonse To Bosnian Ethnic CleansingB, Syria, Syrian President Bashsar Assad, U.S. Air Blockade Of Syria

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