Tue 2009-02-24 00:00 EST
Michael Hudson: Obama's New Bank Giveaway
It Won't Save the Economy; It May Make the Crisis Worse
Obama Topic in The Credit Debacle Catalog
Fri 2009-01-16 00:00 EST
The Institutional Risk Analyst: On the Economy: For Barack Obama, It's All About Credibility
The Economy: For Barack Obama, It's All About Credibility, by The Institutional Risk Analyst (IRA); ``We just don't think that Geithner has the integrity or the independence of mind to close and sell C, GS and the rest of the larger Wall Street banks...we suggest FDIC chief Sheila Bair.''
Barack Obama; credibility; economy; Institutional Risk Analyst.
Fri 2009-01-16 00:00 EST
AlterNet: The Right Wing's Latest Argument Against Public Health Care -- We'd Like It Too Much
by Lindsay Beyerstein; Cato Institute, wherein Michael F. Cannon argues that blocking Obama's health plan is the key to GOP survival...once people start getting good health care from the government at a price they can afford, they want to keep re-electing the politicians who make that possible.''
Thu 2009-01-08 00:00 EST
naked capitalism: Obama's Public Works Plan: Trickle Up Economics?
economic; naked capitalism; Obama's Public Works Plan; trickle.
Fri 2008-12-12 00:00 EST
AlterNet: Chomsky: Is There Truth in Obama's Advertising?
AlterNet: Noam Chomsky: Is There Truth in Obama's Advertising? ``what's happened to the country...is that there was extensive and very constructive activism in the 1960s...And the activism did civilize the country''; Tom Ferguson's investment theory of politics; Brand Obama; ``The goal of advertising is to create uninformed consumers who will make irrational choices...And when they turn to selling a candidate they do the same thing...So you undermine democracy pretty much the same way you undermine markets.''
Wed 2008-12-10 00:00 EST
AlterNet: Obama's Treasury Pick Has All the Wrong Ideas
Wed 2008-12-10 00:00 EST
Michael Hudson: The Obama Letdown
Michael Hudson: The Obama Letdown; public infrastructure investment brings vast windfall gains for well-located real estate
Wed 2008-12-10 00:00 EST
The Institutional Risk Analyst: What Barack Obama Needs to Know About Tim Geithner, the AIG Fiasco and Citigroup
What Barack Obama Needs to Know About Tim Geithner the AIG CDS Fiasco, by Institutional Risk Analytics (Chris Whalen)
AIG fiascos; Barack Obama needed; Citigroup; Institutional Risk Analyst; know; Tim Geithner.
Tue 2008-11-25 00:00 EST
The Institutional Risk Analyst: What Barack Obama Needs to Know About Tim Geithner, the AIG Fiasco and Citigroup
What Barack Obama Needs to Know About Tim Geithner the AIG CDS Fiasco, by Institutional Risk Analytics
AIG fiascos; Barack Obama needed; Citigroup; Institutional Risk Analyst; know; Tim Geithner.
Sun 2008-11-23 00:00 EST
www.dcexaminer.com >> Timothy Carney
www.dcexaminer.com >> Timothy Carney: Emanuel Will be Wall Street's Man in the Obama White House; ``This past election cycle, more than a third of Emanuels campaign contributions from political action committees came from financial sector PACs''
Sat 2008-04-12 00:00 EDT
Hillary's Flimsy Case : Rolling Stone
Hillary's Flimsy Case, by Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone; Obama "running as a symbol of a new politics...But if it were to get out that he's not that...then he quickly morphs into a different kind of symbol, a symbol of how an essentially bankrupt political system can seamlessly repackage itself to a fed-up marketplace by making cosmetic changes, without altering its basic nature." "In American politics, always look for the worst possible scenario to emerge triumphant"
Wed 2008-04-02 00:00 EDT
Generation Squeeb: Barack Obama's Reverend Wright controversy, and America's squid-heart
Generation Squeeb: Barack Obama's Reverend Wright controversy, and America's squid-heart, by Matt Taibbi
America's squid-heart; Barack Obama's Reverend Wright controversy; Generation Squeeb.
Fri 2008-03-28 00:00 EDT
AlterNet: The Wright Controversy Revealed America's Gutless, Panicky, Deeply Insecure Side
by Matt Taibbi; "A society at peace with itself wouldn't have reacted in the way it did to the partly true/partly crazy remarks of Obama's former pastor."
AlterNet; Deeply Insecure Side; panicky; Wright Controversy Revealed America's Gutless.
Wed 2008-03-26 00:00 EDT
Barack Obama's Smart Speech "A More Perfect Union": Did It Reveal Him To Be Too Intellectual To Be President? | The Smirking Chimp
Barack Obama's Smart Speech "A More Perfect Union": Did It Reveal Him To Be Too Intellectual To Be President? by John Dean | The Smirking Chimp; "Republicans have spent the past half century dumbing-down the American presidency, for it has helped them win the White House"; "Anti-intellectual Republican presidents have led this nation into a new age of unreason"
Barack Obama's Smart Speech; intellectual; Perfect Union; President; revealed; Smirking Chimp.
Thu 2007-11-01 00:00 EDT
blackagendareport.com
- The Handwriting is On the Wall: It's a Clinton-Obama Ticket in 08, by Bruce Dixon; "For Democratic and Republican wings of America's permanent ruling party, the all-important selection which precedes the election isn't about poll numbers, votes or the citizens that cast them. It's about winning the favor of military contractors, the banking and financial sectors and Big Oil. It's about reassuring insurance and pharmaceutical companies, cozying up to agribusiness, the cable and telecom monopolies, allaying the fears of chambers of commerce, and wooing Hollywood."