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To: JPG

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): White House press secretary Robert Gibbs

Nice hair buddy!

Gibbs talking about the policy Obama outlined...mmm__seems to me that policy was described as vague

Obama Picks Populist Fight by Taking on the Big Banks

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2435582/posts

The President did not offer specific remedies for the main source of public ire toward the banks - the executive bonuses that Mr. Obama yesterday labelled as “obscene.” And the rules unveiled by the President raised as many questions as they answered.

Still, the proposals do not appear to prohibit banks from trading in the same kind of risky financial products on behalf of clients.

As a result, Mr. Obama’s move yesterday “is the kind of thing the public, in its anger at the moment, will buy without really understanding what it means,” offered Lawrence Baxter, who also a professor at the Duke law school. “But it may not have the effect they’re looking for, which is greater safety and soundness in the financial system,

because it was the underlying financial products, not the trading practices, that were the problem.”


67 posted on 01/24/2010 6:12:09 AM PST by Son House (The Learning Curve for Democrats on Macroeconomics is getting Exponential)
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To: Son House

How on earth does Chris keep from puking all over that gasbag?

And what’s that stupid purple bracelet he’s wearing?


72 posted on 01/24/2010 6:13:21 AM PST by Timeout (Brits have the royals. Russia, the Nomenklatura. WE have our Privileged "Public Servant" class.)
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To: Son House
Wonder if the 60% of Americans with 401ks or Union pensions funds will thank Dear Reader for picking a fight with the banks when his posturing are crashing the stock market.
157 posted on 01/24/2010 6:52:44 AM PST by MNJohnnie ("The trouble with socialism is that eventually you run out of other peoples' money" Lady Thatcher)
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