Fri 2010-04-02 19:53 EDT

Homage To Haiti: A War Nerd Classic - By Gary Brecher - The eXiled

Haiti popped into the news again, and I decided it was time to tell the whole military history of the place. It's got to be the most amazing, bloodsoaked, heroic, messed-up story in the Western Hemisphere: slave armies defeating Napoleon's troops, huge castles built in the middle of the jungle, endless three-cornered war between whites, blacks and mulattos...Haiti's history isn't just a lot of killing, either. A lot of Haitian leaders were brilliant guys who weren't afraid of anybody -- not Napoleon, not Jesus, not nobody. These guys were self-made black Roman Emperors. They came up the hard way, out of slavery in the cane fields, and beat the European armies that tried to take the place back. All comers--French, British, Spanish -- the Haitians took them all on and put the fear into them.

exiled; Gary Brecher; Haiti; homage; War Nerd Classic.

Jesse's Café Américain Fri 2009-10-23 19:27 EDT

Matt Taibbi: Wall Street's Naked Swindle

Jesse

This is worth reading. Wall Street's Naked Swindle by Matt Taibbi. Closing quote from this story: "The new president for whom we all had such high hopes went and hired Michael Froman, a Citigroup executive who accepted a $2.2 million bonus after he joined the White House, to serve on his economic transition team -- at the same time the government was giving Citigroup a massive bailout. Then, after promising to curb the influence of lobbyists, Obama hired a former Goldman Sachs lobbyist, Mark Patterson, as chief of staff at the Treasury. He hired another Goldmanite, Gary Gensler, to police the commodities markets. He handed control of the Treasury and Federal Reserve over to Geithner and Bernanke, a pair of stooges who spent their whole careers being bellhops for...

Jesse's Café Américain; Matt Taibbi; Wall Street's Naked Swindle.

Tue 2009-06-16 00:00 EDT

New York Fed Chief Tim Geithner - Executive Articles - Print - Portfolio.com

by Gary Weiss; ``The Man Who Saved (or Got Suckered by) Wall Street''

com; Executive Articles; New York Fed chief Tim Geithner; portfolio; print.

Fri 2008-03-21 00:00 EDT

Bernanke's Surprise by Gary North

Bernanke's Surprise, by Gary North; deflation; 2008-02-23

Bernanke's surprise; Gary North.

Mon 2007-11-19 00:00 EST

naked capitalism: Fed's Gary Stern Makes Lame Arguments Against Increased Credit Market Regulation

Fed's Gary Stern Makes Lame Arguments; Increased Credit Market Regulation; naked capitalism.