Gretchen Morgenson: Banks Bilking Taxpayers By Refusing To Buy Back Toxic Loans They Sold To Fannie And Freddie
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on June 6th, 2010 4:49 am by HL
Gretchen Morgenson: Banks Bilking Taxpayers By Refusing To Buy Back Toxic Loans They Sold To Fannie And Freddie
From the earliest days of the credit crisis, the nation’s big financial institutions have been less than forthcoming about ballooning loan losses buried inside their…
Morris Davis: Support a Patriot: Confirm Jim Clapper
I spent my entire adult life serving as a military officer where I was precluded from direct involvement in partisan political activity. I retired from…
Republicans Push Again For DOJ Investigation Of White House Deals
WASHINGTON — Rebuffed before, Republicans are renewing demands for a Justice Department investigation into White House dealmaking in two Senate races. The Obama administration says…
Arianna Huffington: Sunday Roundup
Isn’t it interesting how so many Gulf state Republicans are anti-big government — until they need its help? It’s “big government for me, but not for thee.” You know what they say: a Republican is just a Democrat who hasn’t been the victim of a catastrophic oil spill yet. The BP disaster is the inevitable result of the Bush-era habit of filling regulatory agencies with industry lobbyists and cronies. So this is a teachable moment. Just as Reagan put forth his grand, unifying theory that government is the problem, not the solution, Obama needs to seize this opportunity to reframe the debate and show how Corporations Gone Wild are the real problem. What we have now isn’t free market capitalism, it’s corrupt third world cronyism. Tony Hayward would like his life back. Well, Americans would like our democracy back.
Alvin McEwen: McCollum overruled staff warnings, concerns about Rekers
According to the Miami Herald, Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum’s staff tried to warn him against hiring the now disgraced George Rekers as an…