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21 Oct 09

Volcker Has Obama’s Ear, but Not on Overhaul of Banks - NYTimes.com

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker advocates breaking up banks that are "too big to fail" by separating their banking operations from their gambling operations. But so far, the Obama administration (chock full of the same Wall Street insiders who infested the Bush-Cheney regime) resists the idea.

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18 Sep 09

Hurry Up and Credit My Checking Account - NYTimes.com

Ron Lieber discusses why banks instantly charge for overdrafts but take their own sweet time crediting deposits.

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30 Jun 09

U.S. Plan to Stem Foreclosures Is Mired in Paper Avalanche - NYTimes.com

Banks and other financial institutions are "losing" paperwork from thousands of people who seek to have their mortgages adjusted under new law. There is an argument for taking the bastards out back and giving them last cigarettes with their blindfolds. Not that I would support such an action, of course.

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02 May 09

Economists, Reading Same Data, Differ on Forecasts - NYTimes.com

Various Nobel laureate economists (including Stiglitz, Solow, and Krugman) grade the administration's handling of the economic crisis and express guarded optimism about the second half of 2009.

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23 Apr 09

Banks Show Clout on Legislation to Help Consumers - NYTimes.com

Banks try to stop or cripple proposed legislation that would help working people adjust their mortgage payments and would outlaw some bank abuses of their credit card customers.

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12 Apr 09

Crisis Reshaping Wall St. as Stars Begin to Scatter - NYTimes.com

If their "top talent" is to run the economy into a ditch, then all I can say is "Don't let the door hit you on your way out."

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09 Feb 09

Trying to Live on 500K in New York City - NYTimes.com

Boo-hoo. It costs lots of money to hire a chauffeur/bodyguard, to have both a posh apartment and a $4 million summer home. Are we supposed to feel sorry for these pampered incompetents who wrecked the U.S. and world economies?

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26 Nov 08

The Reckoning - Citigroup Saw No Red Flags Even as It Made Bolder Bets - Series - NYTimes.com

How everyone in the corporate and ruling-class food chain cashed in on the subprime lending bubble, and walked away with the money when they caused economic catastrophe for the world.

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Op-Ed Columnist - All Fall Down - NYTimes.com

How everyone in the corporate food chain corruptly or foolishly cashed in on the subprime bubble and caused disaster.

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23 Oct 08

F.D.I.C. Chief Points to Efforts to Aid Homeowners - NYTimes.com

More fakery from the Bush regime and its appointees, pretending to help homeowners fend off predatory banks.

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22 Oct 08

Editorial - Only Half a Bailout - NYTimes.com

Argues that help for troubled mortgage-holders is needed to prevent even worse problems in the banking industry.

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