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A badly needed gift for Socially Challenged Larry Summers »

By Uppity Woman on Apr 25, 2009 in Larry Summers | 8 Comments

During discussions of what a racist, bigoted, sexist pig Larry Summers is, one commenter got to the heart of Larry’s problem.
The knocks against Mr. Summers are by now familiar. During his five years at Harvard, his most high-profile moment came in 2005 when the school’s faculty attacked him for comments he made about differences between [...]

Now that the damage is done, our President pledges Credit Card reform »

By Uppity Woman on Apr 25, 2009 in American Consumers, Banking Institutions, Credit Card Companies, Larry Summers, President Barack Obama | 47 Comments

Pretty much everyone you know has already been gouged by credit card companies while the Band Played On.
Congress said nothing, the President said nothing. Nobody stopped every major credit card company in the USA from screwing with everyone’s credit scores by cranking up their interest rates in mid-stream and offering customers no options other than [...]

“Obama’s Economic Guru” »

By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Apr 5, 2009 in Barack Obama, Economy, Health Care, Larry Summers, Women and Children | 92 Comments

I’m speaking, of course, of Larry Summers. He is the one to whom Obama turns for his economic advice:
President Obama likes to tease Larry Summers as a “propeller head” and a “numbers guy,” shorthand for a policy wonk who relishes the kind of esoteric arguments that everyday people might find boring and incomprehensible. But [...]

The Identical Plutocrat Pigs Who Destroyed the Economy Are Eating at OUR Trough Again [Updated] »

By SusanUnPC on Mar 26, 2009 in AIG, Larry Summers, Middle America, President Barack Obama, Tim Geithner, Toxic Assets | 36 Comments

The plutocrat pigs are at our trough again, thanks to one Timothy Geithner and one Lawrence Summers. Well, if you have seen my posts featuring interviews or columns by Princeton’s Paul Krugman, Nobel Laureate in Economics, you know Geithner’s “toxic assets plan,” announced Monday under Geithner’s, not Obama’s name, is designed to 1) Avoid any [...]