Showing posts with label Tim Geithner. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tim Geithner. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 12, 2018

David Dayen thinks Tim Geithner's disobedience of Obama's orders fed the anger at government Trump parlayed into the presidency

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Of course, this begs the question whether Obama knew what he was doing, or even wanted to know. Here in The New Republic: Every a...
Monday, July 2, 2018

WaPo: Obama's Timmy TurboTax Geithner has a new life as a predatory lender

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From the story here : Mass-mailing checks to strangers might seem like risky business, but Mariner Finance occupies a fertile niche in...
Thursday, May 15, 2014

Jim Cramer reads fellow Democrat Tim Geithner and suddenly discovers frugality: both men are only five years behind the curve

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THE MARKET IS UP 11% SINCE CRAMER SAID SELL IN SEPTEMBER 2013 Jim Cramer, quoted  here : "I think America's gone frugal. ...
Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Housing, Shmousing. Here's What's Really Been Happening.

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RC Whalen, here , in January: "[J]udicial states remain mired in foreclosure backlogs that still stretch ahead for years to come.  Beca...
Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Obama's Gangster Government Of, By And For The Banks

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Matt Taibbi provides a pretty thorough look at the recent history of the bailout alliance between the federal government and the big banks f...
Saturday, August 11, 2012

US Public Debt Under Obama Has Soared Exactly 50 Percent In 43 Months

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(Source: little Timmy Geithner's Treasury Department)
Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Were 20,000 Non-Union Pensions At Delphi Victims Of Geithner At Treasury?

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Administration officials have testified otherwise under oath. The Daily Caller claims to have the goods on Geithner's Treasury Departmen...

Neil Barofsky Calls Geithner And Obama Two-Faced Housing Bailout Liars

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'[I]n 2009, $50 billion in TARP funds had been committed to help homeowners through the Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP), a p...
Saturday, July 28, 2012

Noted Progressive Calls Second-Great-Depression-Excuse For TARP "Crap"

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Dean Baker, here : [T]he commonly claimed "second Great Depression" scenario is, to use a technical economic term, "crap....
Sunday, July 22, 2012

Neil Barofsky, TARP "Watchdog", Blasts Financial Fascism In New Book

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And Gretchen Morgenson of The New York Times provides a favorable review, here : He is Neil Barofsky. Remember him — the man whose job it wa...
Sunday, July 15, 2012

Geithner's NY Fed Knew Of Barclays Bank LIBOR Lies In April 2008 And Did Nothing

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The little twit who got away with failing to report income on his tax returns and became our Treasury Secretary should hang for failing to r...
Tuesday, July 10, 2012

New York Fed's Geithner Knew All About Libor Irregularities In 2008

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So says a story, here : According to the calendar of then New York Fed President, Timothy Geithner, who is now U.S. Treasury Secretary, it e...
Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Wolfgang Schauble Calls Tim Geithner's EFSF Leverage Idea STUPID!

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It's about time someone did. Ambrose Evans-Pritchard has the quotation from the German finance minister, here : "I don't unders...
Friday, July 29, 2011

Obama Regime's Default Alarmism is Straight out of Saul Alinsky

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Caroline Baum notices that the Obama regime is acting strangely: Instead of dangling the default threat every chance they get, Obama and Ge...
Friday, April 2, 2010

The Stench From Geithner's New York Federal Reserve Bank

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Commentary from David Kotok of Cumberland Advisors yesterday : It is important to understand that the narrative of this financial crisis per...
Thursday, April 1, 2010

Tim Geithner and Ben Bernanke Usurped The Power Of The U.S. House Of Representatives

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So why aren't they in jail? They illegally bought trash loans and credit default swaps with taxpayer money and without congressional aut...