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  • Book: Treasury Secretary ignored Obama directive

    09/15/2011 8:55:58 PM PDT · by quantim · 15 replies
    AP/WorldMag ^ | Sep 15, 9:05 PM EDT | ANTHONY McCARTNEY
    NEW YORK (AP) -- A new book offering an insider's account of the White House's response to the financial crisis says that U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner ignored an order from President Barack Obama calling for reconstruction of major banks. According to Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Suskind, the incident is just one of several in which Obama struggled with a divided group of advisers, some of whom he didn't initially consider for their high-profile roles. Suskind interviewed more than 200 people, including Obama, Geithner and other top officials for "Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and The Education of A President,"...
  • Pat Buchanan: The Weimar Solution

    03/24/2009 7:55:28 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 24 replies · 1,881+ views
    Townhall ^ | March 24, 2009 | Patrick J. Buchanan
    "The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency," said Lord Keynes. Ben Bernanke disagrees. A student of the Depression, the Fed chair appears far more fearful of deflation -- a vicious cycle of falling prices, debt defaults, home foreclosures and rising unemployment. Deflation is what America underwent in the 1930s. A Fed-created bubble burst, causing margin calls to go out to stockholders, who ran to their banks that, besieged, collapsed, wiping out a third of our money. As Milton Friedman, who won a Nobel for his thesis that the Federal Reserve caused the Great Depression,...
  • Buchanan to Obama [Tells it exactly like it is]

    03/26/2009 8:03:19 PM PDT · by upchuck · 25 replies · 1,794+ views
    Westside Gazette ^ | Mar 18, 2009 | Patrick J. Buchanan
    Barack says we need to have a conversation about race in America. Fair enough. But this time, it has to be a two-way conversation. White America needs to be heard from, not just lectured to. This time, the silent majority needs to have its convictions, grievances and demands heard. And among them are these: First, America has been the best country on earth for Black folks. It was here that 600,000 Black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40 million, were introduced to Christian salvation, and reached the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity...