Category: Banks
By Anita Finlay ("Ani") on Dec 7, 2011 in Bank Bailouts, Current Affairs, Obama-Barack & President Barack | View Comments
* Bumped up* WaPo’s Dana Milbank asked this question in his latest opinion piece while doing his best to romanticize the movement. Milbank centered his story on folk rocker Jackson Browne’s recent attempts to rally a small group of OWS protesters in Washington, D.C.: He played five political tunes but left out the one most [...]
By Steve_in_KC on Jul 28, 2011 in Banks, Current Affairs, Economy | View Comments
* Bumped Up * In the office where I work, there is one guy I consider a friend. Our friendship is based mostly on our shared political leanings and our ability to converse intelligently. We talk about the way things are with the economy, politics, and world events. Most of the time we agree with each [...]
By Anita Finlay ("Ani") on Dec 29, 2010 in Bank Failure, Barack Obama, Congress (House & Senate), Democrats, Economy, Unemployment/Jobs | View Comments
The joy of the season eludes many in dire economic straits. NY Times columnist Bob Herbert points out as much is his latest piece The Data and the Reality. Lamenting “data zealots” who use impressive holiday sales figures as evidence of an economic turnaround, Herbert stresses the vital need to focus instead on those being [...]
By Anita Finlay ("Ani") on Dec 9, 2010 in Austan Goolsbee, Bailouts, Bank Bailouts, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Bush administration, Bush/Cheney, Campaigns & Campaign Financing, Don't Ask Don't Tell, GLBT, Gay Rights, George Bush, Keith Olbermann, Media, Print, Media, Television, New York Times, Obama Administration, Obama's Broken Promises, Obama-Barack & President Barack, President Barack Obama, Washington Post | View Comments
In the current bout of progressive hand-wringing over President Obama’s latest “compromise” on the Bush tax cuts, everyone from Keith Olbermann to Frank Rich to Paul Krugman to Bill Maher to Eleanor Clift is directing their erstwhile wunderkind to return to his principles, get his mojo back, stop being wimpy and declare his refusal to [...]
By Anita Finlay ("Ani") on Nov 1, 2010 in Bank Bailouts, Corruption, Elitism, Hillary Clinton, Media, Television, President Barack Obama, Tax stimulus package | View Comments
In today’s WSJ, Scott Rasmussen tells us that the tsunami most likely headed for Democrats at the voting booth tomorrow is simply A Vote Against Dems, Not for the GOP. Voters don’t want to be governed from the left, right or center. They want Washington to recognize that Americans want to govern themselves. The trends [...]
By Linda Anselmi on Oct 26, 2010 in Banks, Current Affairs | View Comments
Process matters — if results matter. Our government designed HAMP (Home Affordable Modification Program) with three fatal flaws (features?) for homeowners: Bank were not required to participate. Banks were paid fees for homeowners entering into the modification process, without ever having to actually achieve permanent modifications. Bankruptcy judges were not empowered to modify the mortgage [...]
By Anita Finlay ("Ani") on Oct 2, 2010 in Arrogance, Bank Bailouts, Barack Obama, Flip Flopping, Huffington Post, Obama's Broken Promises, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Wall Street | View Comments
* Bumped Up * With the mid-term elections five weeks away, it’s desperation time. President Obama scolds voters for “apathy,” and for “not being serious in the first place,” VP Biden tells them to “stop whining,” and Senator John Kerry pronounces voters ill-informed on the issues, i.e. stupid. One has to wonder if that is [...]
By Anita Finlay ("Ani") on Jul 19, 2010 in Bank Bailouts, Current Affairs, DNC idiocy, Democratic Party, Economic Stimulus, Joe Biden, Obama Administration, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Transparency, Vice President | View Comments
Sometimes I feel sorry for Joe Biden. Our Vice President has to get out there every day and deliver the talking points. He pretends what is bad is good and makes policies we knew wouldn’t work sound like the greatest thing since sliced bread. I guess it goes with the territory. No wonder he wanted [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on May 25, 2010 in ACORN, Banks, Barack Obama, CNN, California, Crime, Current Affairs, Labor, Obama's Thugs, Terrorism, Wall Street | View Comments
I have often mentioned SEIU, the union co-founded by ACORN’s founder, Wade Rathke. That really should tell people as much as they need to know. Of course, there is more, though. SEIU’s recently resigned director, Andy Stern, has been a frequent visitor at the White House. And yes, SEIU helped to get Obama elected. The [...]
By Anita Finlay ("Ani") on May 9, 2010 in Bailouts, Bank Bailouts, Bank Nationalization, Current Affairs, Democratic Party, Obama Administration, Obama's Broken Promises | View Comments
Scrolling through a number of blogs the other day, I came across this comment to a story in The Confluence. Many thanks to WMCB for posting it: … I have a family member who is as conservative as it gets. We disagree a lot on how much the federal govt should do. But we wholeheartedly [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on May 9, 2010 in Arrogance, Bailouts, Bank Bailouts, California, Congress (House & Senate), Current Affairs, Illegal Aliens, President Barack Obama, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Texas, U.S. Constitution | View Comments
Just when you think our Elected Officials cannot possibly be any stupider, there is this article, Pelosi: It’s Cheaper to Treat Teens for Drug Use Than Interdict Drugs at Border. Sigh. Okay, here’s the thing. I love San Francisco. It is a beautiful city. But seriously, how can they keep electing this woman?? Read it [...]
By Anita Finlay ("Ani") on May 2, 2010 in Bailouts, Bank Bailouts, Bush administration, Current Affairs, Economic Stimulus, Elitism, Hillary Clinton, Immigration Reform, Mortgage Crisis, Obama Administration, Obama's Broken Promises, Off-Shore Drilling, President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Wall Street | View Comments
If anyone wonders why 24% of the population identify with the Tea Party movement, or what prompted Jane Hampsher of FireDogLake to note that Progressivism Is Dead, while expressing fury at being sold out to corporate oligarchs and government elite, look no further than Peggy Noonan’s WSJ piece, The Big Alienation, which aptly describes the [...]
By Anita Finlay ("Ani") on Apr 29, 2010 in Bailouts, Bank Bailouts, Banking Institutions, Campaign promises, Credit Card Companies, DNC, Deficit, Democrats, Depression, Earmarks, Economic Stimulus, General Motors & Chrysler, National Debt, Obama Administration, Obama's Broken Promises, Obama-Barack & President Barack, Obamatopia, TARP, Toxic Assets, Wall Street | View Comments
President Obama made a visit to Ottumwa, Iowa Wednesday. As reported by Jake Tapper on ABC’s Political Punch: “We’re going to have to make some tough choices” about the deficit and national debt, President Obama said to a crowded gymnasium full of supporters at Indian Hills Community College, after a lengthy riff on how the [...]
By Anita Finlay ("Ani") on Apr 26, 2010 in Bailouts, Banking Committee Hearings, Banking Institutions, Banks, Bernie Madoff, Current Affairs, Wall Street | View Comments
ABC’s Jake Tapper covers an interesting proposition from Republican Senator Bob Corker on financial reform for Wall Street — he wants a “clawback provision” forcing failed executives who have driven companies into the red to give back their earnings for the past five years. Loving it!!! Read how Austan Goolsbee, one of Obama’s chief economic [...]
By Anita Finlay ("Ani") on Apr 25, 2010 in Bailouts, Bank Bailouts, Depression, Economic Stimulus, Economy, Joe Biden, Stimulus Plan, TARP, Toxic Assets, Vice President, stimulus tax package | View Comments
On Friday’s Political Punch, it was reported that Vice President Biden Predicts Massive Job Growth in Coming Months: Usually the Obama administration downplays expectations for job growth, but apparently Vice President Joe Biden didn’t get the memo – or he did, but just blew it off. Well, it wouldn’t be the first time our loquacious [...]
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