By Larry Doyle on Jan 3, 2010 in Bailouts, Barney Frank, Current Affairs, Economy, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Housing & Housing Crisis, Larry Summers, Sense on Cents (Larry Doyle blog), U.S. Treasury | View Comments
Blank checks are the antithesis of good public policy. America can not allow the passage of time to lessen the outrage over the Obama administration’s Christmas Eve bonus to the financial sinkholes known as Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. Platitudes and posturing aside, the American taxpayer is being set up as never before. A blank [...]
By Anita Finlay ("Ani") on Nov 30, 2009 in Bailouts, Bank Bailouts, Current Affairs, DNC idiocy, Democratic Party, Larry Summers, Media Bias, New York Times, Newsweek, Obama Administration, Obama-Barack & President Barack, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Tim Geithner | View Comments
*This importance treatise on the Obama presidency has been bumped up * During the presidential campaign, Peggy Noonan rhapsodized about an Obama presidency, trashing Hillary Clinton to the bargain. Recent months have seen Ms. Noonan pen several articles deconstructing her prior romantic notions, reaching the same conclusions as the very people she derided for not [...]
By Uppity Woman on Apr 25, 2009 in Larry Summers | View 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 [...]
By Uppity Woman on Apr 25, 2009 in American Consumers, Banking Institutions, Credit Card Companies, Larry Summers, President Barack Obama | View 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 [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Apr 5, 2009 in Barack Obama, Economy, Health Care, Larry Summers, Women and Children | View 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 [...]
By SusanUnPC on Mar 26, 2009 in AIG, Larry Summers, Middle America, President Barack Obama, Tim Geithner, Toxic Assets | View 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 [...]