Showing posts with label TARP. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TARP. Show all posts
Thursday, December 5, 2024

Secular bear Rosie not throwing in the towel . . . again

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 Rosie was on the wrong side of the trade in April 2011 when the bear went bullish . Is he again now? He uses the same phrase, too, "no...
Tuesday, September 24, 2024

Trump and Harris agreeing on ending the filibuster rule reminds me of McCain and Obama agreeing on something inadvisable in 2008

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  They both interrupted their campaigns to vote for TARP on October 1, 2008, which became law on Friday, October 3, but did nothing to stop...
Monday, December 16, 2019

Judd Gregg, Senate author of TARP bank bailouts which picked bank winners, calls Trump conservative in name only

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Judd Gregg's idea of a conservative president is one who abandons free market principles in order to save the free market system. P...
Saturday, November 2, 2019

MSNBC April 2018: Nancy Pelosi insisted impeachment had to be bipartisan

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Now she says she didn't say that.
Thursday, August 8, 2019

Hank Paulson, who championed the crackpot TARP as Treasury Secretary under Bush 43, is a Christian Scientist

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From the story : But the reality of the existential crisis remained elusive to church officials. In 2005, Nathan Talbot and J Thomas B...
Monday, May 13, 2019

Neel Kashkari and other Fed members seem aware at least of the nosedive in labor's share of business income, but are oblivious to its roots in globalization

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Fooling around with interest rates isn't going to bring back the core manufacturing businesses which once formed the hubs of American m...
Monday, March 18, 2019

Wow, WaPo's Glenn Kessler almost becomes Rush Limbaugh, doubts Bernie's $1 trillion bailout claim

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If anything, Bernie underestimates the scope of the secret loans during the financial crisis ten years ago. The Freedom of Information Act ...
Wednesday, June 27, 2018

That idiot Republican Judd Gregg of New Hampshire thinks Woodrow Wilson changed America for the better

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He's also the idiot who wrote the TARP bailout. And now he's the idiot who blames the Baby Boom for the programs bankrupting A...
Sunday, April 16, 2017

Maxine Waters is a discredited has been, got a federal TARP bailout for husband's bank

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From the story in March, here : During the height of the 2008 fiscal crisis, Waters helped arrange a meeting between the Treasury Depa...
Thursday, June 9, 2016

Obama's Justice Sotomayor is the total and complete racist Americans should be worried about

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New York Times transcript of 2001 Sotomayor speech, here , where she says physiological differences may and will make a difference in the ...
Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Despicable Paul Ryan, Congress and Obama stiff-arm Puerto Rico bondholders who will end up fronting the inevitable taxpayer bailout

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Paul Ryan is the establishment all the way. And he hasn't changed since 2008. He is not Tea Party, he is not Freedom Caucus, he is n...
Saturday, May 7, 2016

Sleeping with the enemy for 23 years, Bush cheerleader Mary Matalin switches to Libertarian Party

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Quoted here : "I'm not a Republican for a party or a person," she explained, adding she pledged party loyalty in more ...
Wednesday, January 7, 2015

TARP ends, but conservatives still don't realize it was just a sideshow

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Existing crisis loans 1st of the month in billion$ That TARP was just a sideshow was not known at the time in 2008, but it should be k...
Friday, October 31, 2014

Terri Lynn Land is basically a TARP Republican, not a capitalist who believes in bankruptcy

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Terri Lynn Land quoted here : I think that doing something to protect the auto industry was the right thing to do, but I would have pr...
Sunday, July 13, 2014

Bob Brinker was right in March 2003, but not until May 2009 at the earliest

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Bob Brinker's gain since March 2003 when he called for his followers to fully invest in the stock market has been an impressive 7.14% pe...
Monday, April 21, 2014

Don't blame QE for the decline of the dollar, blame Bush or Greenspan or global warming or war

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The decline of the dollar under QE has been nothing when compared with its decline from 2002 to 2008. Between high water marks in early...
Friday, March 28, 2014

Memo To Larry Kudlow And Other Defenders Of GM/TARP Bailouts: Free Market Capitalism This Is Not

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General Motors, bailed out at a loss to the American people in 2009, has now had to recall approximately 2.6 million vehicles according to t...
Saturday, March 8, 2014

Arguably Obama's 2008 Election Caused All The Job Losses, And We Still Have Not Recovered

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total nonfarm employees n.s.a. 1/07-2/14 Arguably the response of business to the election of Obama was outright fear, leading to record job...
Monday, January 27, 2014

Mish: Credit Dwarfs Money Supply

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Just as the Fed's overnight window dwarfed TARP in the 2008 panic. Mish hits a homer, here : I have little doubt the Fed (central banker...
Monday, January 20, 2014

Obama thinks he has achievements, which must mean he is suffering a psychosis

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From the long story in The New Yorker, here , by image-accommodating biographer David Remnick: As Obama ticked off a list of first-term achi...