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Geithner Draws Wrong Dodd–Frank Lessons and Forgets Fannie Mae
There were plenty of lessons to learn after the financial crisis of 2008. Unfortunately, neither Congress nor the Obama Administration was willing to take the time to learn them. Instead, ...
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U.S. Sanctions Three Companies for Selling Oil Products to Iran
Washington on Thursday placed sanctions on three companies from China, Singapore and the United Arab Emirates for selling refined oil products to Iran, AFP reported. The Treasury placed sanctions on ...
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6 Shocking Revelations About Wall Street’s “Secret Government”
Top officials willfully concealed the true extent of the 2008-’09 bailouts from Congress and the public. We now have concrete evidence that Wall Street and Washington are running a secret ...
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Obama’s Failure: S&P Downgrades U.S. AAA Rating
Heckuva job, Barry. You’ve tanked the economy and now wrecked our credit rating. But don’t let us interrupt your parties or golf. Maybe Obama should have put Osama bin Laden ...
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Congress Still Has Time Before It Must Deal with the Debt Limit Issue
As Heritage expert J.D. Foster, Ph.D. noted in his January 2011 paper “Congress Has Time and Options on Debt Limit“, Congress had time to discuss how it wants to proceed ...
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Ways and Means Hearing: Obamacare Is Bad for Business
Last Thursday, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner sent a letter extolling the impact of Obamacare on small business. Geithner touted small business tax credits and the creation of health insurance exchanges ...
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GOP Fights to Shut Down TARP Slush Fund, Return Money to Taxpayers
With the federal government coming off a $1.42 trillion deficit (“roughly twice individual income tax revenue“) and Washington already another $292 billion in the red, the president and his allies ...
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FedSpeak Translation – There Is No Recovery
In separate speeches, Janet Yellen, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, and Dennis Lockhart, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, warned that rising unemployment could ...
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Obama’s Too-Big-to-Fail Plan Is Too Dumb to Pass:
Commentary by Kevin Hasset Sept. 28 (Bloomberg) — Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s appearance in Congress last week to explain how President Barack Obama would overhaul financial regulation elicited the most ...
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