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I guess we really shouldn't be surprised. After all, this is what Obama and his team of globalists wanted, wasn't it? It's pretty much what he promised his hate-America base. If anyone was listening, they would have heard it. US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has told the BBC that the world "cannot depend as much on the US as it did in the past". He said that other major economies would have to grow more for the global economy to prosper. He also played down any differences in policy between the US and Europe regarding deficit reduction. Mr Geithner was...

US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has told the BBC that the world "cannot depend as much on the US as it did in the past". He said that other major economies would have to grow more for the global economy to prosper. He also played down any differences in policy between the US and Europe regarding deficit reduction. Mr Geithner was speaking in Washington ahead of G8 and G20 meetings this weekend in Toronto. He said all members of the group were "focused on the challenge of [building] growth and confidence", and would be working to this end at the...

Geithner To World: Spend Now. Cut Deficits Later. by Jacob Goldstein There's this big debate in both the U.S. and Europe right now: cuting government spending to reduce deficits versus continuing to spend heavily to promote economic growth. Europe has been moving to lower deficits. The Obama administration is pushing for spending, at least in the short term. Ministers from the G-20 — the world's 20 largest economies — are meeting in Toronto this weekend, and hashing out this question is at the top of their to-do list. Tim Geithner and Larry Summers land on the WSJ op-ed page this...

A U.S. Marine who served in Iraq is suing the federal government for distributing billions of dollars in taxpayer funds to the Shariah-supporting American International Group.The lawsuit, Murray v. Geithner et al., was brought against the Fed and the Treasury by the Thomas More Law Center on behalf of Kevin Murray, a former Marine who served honorably in Iraq to defend the United States from Islamic terrorists....Coughlin, a lawyer and decorated Army Reserve officer, is a leading Pentagon expert on the link between Islamic law and jihad. He explained that by engaging in Shariah-compliant financing, AIG and the federal government...

Diplomacy: When the U.S. sends its top diplomat and No. 1 economic official to the same country at the same time, it expects results. By that measure, our high-level overture to China this week was a big disappointment. The trip of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner to China this week can only be called a diplomatic failure. The U.S. has several things on its plate right now that require Chinese cooperation. They include help in financing our soaring debt, which on Wednesday passed $13 trillion for the first time, and getting North Korea, a Chinese...

'Glenn Beck': ShoreBank's Tangled Web Friday , May 21, 2010 GLENN BECK, HOST: I want to talk to you a little bit about ShoreBank. And all you need to know about ShoreBank in Chicago is it's a really good local bank — that's it — a really good local bank. I want to start over here. Do you remember Crime Inc.? This is a story that we've been telling you here for a while. And I just want to run this down. Joyce Foundation, when Barack Obama was on the board of the Joyce Foundation — this is a really...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Wednesday that he wanted to see Europe "follow through" with its rescue package aimed at stemming the spread of the Greek debt crisis. Geithner, speaking to CNBC Television in an interview, said: "Absolutely Europe has the capacity to manage through this. We just want to see them follow through."

House Republicans are drafting a bill that would force Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to vote against IMF loans to European countries. The legislation is a response to the European Union and International Monetary Fund’s bailout of Greece, and possible future aid to other debt-ridden European countries. The IMF and EU have agreed to create a nearly $1 trillion fund that would offer loan guarantees to any country that needs the help. The idea is to prevent turbulence in financial markets and currencies given the wariness with which traders are viewing Europe. The U.S. has not offered any direct assistance to...

May 3 (Bloomberg Government) -- The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and 12 other business groups asked members of President Obama’s cabinet including Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner for more leeway in implementing the health-care overhaul. The groups said they’re being forced to make contract, employee-benefit and other decisions without guidance on how to comply with provisions that take effect in September. The letter dated April 30 was sent to Geithner, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Labor Secretary Hilda Solis.

What's Hidden in the Dodd BillApril 30, 2010 BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Some interesting things are being gleaned from the financial regulatory reform bill. The Washington Times has an editorial today, and I'm waiting for the liberals in this country, when they find out about this, to start screaming fascist like they did at Bush over the Patriot Act. Remember, they hated Bush because they were going to spy on them, they're gonna monitor their phone calls out there. Why, why, that's a civil rights violation, human rights violation, fascism, they were just in sheer panic. "The next time you make...

When I had read the headline, IT TOOK ME BY SURPRISE. The U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner admits he never really had a real job. What was he doing all his life. Even I had a better track record then he does. But then again, he had a job position that he does not even admit he has, and it is that of being AN ACTOR who is playing the role of being U.S. Secretary of the Treasury. He has performed the role very well.

The USA is preparing to lead in a new tough international economic regulatory reform effort after the G20 and the International Monetary Fund meeting this recent past weekend.

Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner on CNN.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Sunday that proposals to more tightly regulate the financial sector are not a threat and will ultimately be a benefit to banks by making them more credible. Interviewed on CNN's "GPS" program, Geithner said the financial crisis had exposed the degree to which banks had strayed from their traditional mission of channeling Americans' savings into growing businesses. When trouble developed because of excessive risk-taking, customers suddenly went from "banks falling all over themselves to lend them money at unrealistic rates, to credit drying up in a heartbeat," he noted. "That system...

"...Just days before the Senate was due to vote to start working on Democrats' legislation, Senator Olympia Snowe said that strong derivatives regulation goes to the heart of an effective financial reform bill..." http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN2415678120100424

Anyone even casually following the financial crisis, precipitated by the burst in the housing bubble which was inflated by sub-prime mortgages (low interest, no interest, no money down mortgages sold to people with sub prime credit), should know that “ground zero” in this entire meltdown was the quasi government banking institutions Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Yet in this so called Financial reform bill authored by Connecticut’s senior Senator Chris Dodd, there is not an iota of regulation that corrects this gangs business. You would think it would be at the top of the list?

"The president does not support [it], but we all recognize that our deficits are too high and we've got to bring them down."

Treasury-Secretary Timothy Geithner, the tax cheat who had not paid his taxes when nominated by Obama for the position, is now using the IRS to smear GOP Senatorial candidate Marco Rubio in Florida. Rubio now leads Florida Governor Charlie Crist for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate, prompting the governor to hint that he may drop out of the race and run as an independent. As a young, bright, articulate small-government conservative, Rubio is viewed by many within the GOP and the Tea Party movement as a potential star in conservative politics with the same charisma and gravitas as...

As the country's attention is directed to the Goldman-Sachs scandal, a much greater story lurks beneath the surface involving massive government corruption that makes Wall Street firms pale in comparison. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak). Sen. Chris Dodd, D-CT. The current government of the United States of America under the leadership of Barack Obama and the Democrat-controlled Congress is the single most corrupt entity in the nation, worse than all of the private sector scandals combined. One would be hard-pressed to find an era of U.S history when government was any more corrupt than it is at present. The manner in which...

It’s April 20. Which means that, in addition to taking the day off to smoke weed, you filed your tax return last week. On both fronts, you’re feeling pretty good. On the former, your clients will totally understand that you can’t get to that filing because you’re busy munching almond M&Ms and watching Wizard of Oz synched to the Dark Side of the Moon (again). And on the latter, well, TurboTax says you get a refund. And nothing ever ever goes awry with TurboTax, right? Well, not exactly. Mistakes do get made while using the popular software program. And when...