Tue 2009-06-16 00:00 EDT
public Topic in The Credit Debacle Catalog
Tue 2009-04-21 00:00 EDT
Clusterfuck Nation by Jim Kunstler : Note: Hope = Truth
``What it comes down to, apparently, is a leadership elite across all sectors -- politics, business, academia, media -- that is incapable of processing the truth, and then conveying it to the broad American public.''
The IRA Analyst Tue 2009-04-21 00:00 EDT
The Institutional Risk Analyst: Stress Test Zombies: Not Too Big To Fail? Tough Tootsies Little Banks!
2009-03-13; ``The Bernanke/Geithner approach to not dealing with the financial crisis amounts to a hideous public subsidy of the global transactional class, a transfer of wealth from American taxpayers to the institutional investors who hold the bonds and derivative obligations tied to the zombie banks, AIG and the GSEs. All of these companies will require continuing cash subsidies if they are not resolved in bankruptcy.''
bank; big; fail; Institutional Risk Analyst; IRA Analyst; Stress Test Zombies; Tough Tootsies.
Wed 2009-04-01 00:00 EDT
Electric Politics | Show Me the Money!
How to Shake Down the Wall Street Gangsters, by Werther; ``RICO would seem ideally suited to obtain restitution from criminals who use computerized trading models and complex transactions rather than a .45 to fleece the public.''
Wed 2009-04-01 00:00 EDT
naked capitalism: Is the Public/Private Plan Inferior to TARP?
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 2009-01-15 00:00 EST
The Institutional Risk Analyst: GSE Nation: Interview with Robert Feinberg
GSE Nation: Interview with Robert Feinberg; The Institutional Risk Analyst (IRA); 2008-03-17; ``the government-sponsored entity or "GSE" is now the preferred business model in the US'' ``public policy has been replaced by public relations in this country. Our leaders don't get told what they don't want to hear because the spin machine let's them pick up the Wall Street Journal and read what they want to read because it was placed by the PR firm hired by the banks or the GSEs for that purpose.''
GSE nationalization; Institutional Risk Analyst; interview; Robert Feinberg.
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.