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Secret Deals Involving No One; AIG Coverup Conspiracy Unravels

28 Jan 2010 21:24:35 PST

Written by Michael Shedlock(noreply@blogger.com)
We’re talking about the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, whose role as the most influential part of the federal-reserve system -- apart from the matter of AIG’s bailout -- deserves further congressional scrutiny. April 24, 2009: Let the Criminal Indictments Begin: Paulson, Bernanke,...

Original story at Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis .

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Thoughts on Geithner, AIG, the Fed, and Tax Cuts -- By: Larry Kudlow

28 Jan 2010 07:08:37 PST

Written by webmaster@nationalreview.com (Larry Kudlow)
The question now becomes how to unwind the AIG bailout. The big banks have de-TARPed. The issue of AIG secrecy, however, still remains. But that’s not Geithner’s issue. He wasn’t part of the secrecy; he was part of the solution. (Incidentally, former Treasury man Henry Paulson will join me on T...

Original story at National Review Online .

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Financial Terrorism? You Decide

24 Jan 2010 13:03:00 PST

Written by nospam@example.com (Karl Denninger)
Yet in the middle of this "liquidity crisis", while Ben Bernanke and Hank Paulson were corralling House and Senate leaders in the Capitol and demanded $700 billion in bailouts for Hank's unlimited and purely discretionary use, The Fed inexplicably drained $125 billion from the ba...

Original story at The Market Ticker .

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Obama and Paulson Saved the Financial System? Oh Please... - Seeking Alpha

24 Dec 2009 01:08:34 PST

Obama and Paulson Saved the Financial System? Oh Please... Seeking Alpha (blog) II of the Constitution, but it is nevertheless a theme that Mr. Obama has picked up from President Bush's treasury secretary, Henry Paulson, whose book, ...

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The Financial Villain of the Decade (On the Street)

20 Dec 2009 21:00:00 PST

Written by letters@smartmoney.com (Clancy Nolan)
Former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan nabbed 17% of the vote. Five percent of the votes went to former Enron CEO Lay. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson tied with 4% of the vote. Former Countrywide Financial CEO Angelo Mozilo grabbed 3%, as did Fed...

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Bernanke Guilty of Coercion and Market Manipulation

20 Oct 2009 07:42:11 PDT

Written by Michael Shedlock(noreply@blogger.com)
The case against Bernanke was weaker because of Bernanke's selective memory. When confronted by Congress with his role in this mess, Bernanke defense was that he did not remember what he said and Paulson called Bank of America a "Turd in the Punchbowl". Bank of America / Merrill Lynch Recap

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Henry Paulson news and blogs - February 27, 2010

27 Feb 2010 00:00:01 PDT

Below is today's roundup of news and blogs that haven't yet hit top story status by our community. Visit Henry Paulson news and blogs for even more news and blogs converage.

• WE THE PEOPLE (Have Had Enough) -- by nospam@example.com (Karl Denninger) from The Market Ticker
• Truth Peeks Out From Under The Blanket -- by nospam@example.com (Karl Denninger) from The Market Ticker
• Janine R. Wedel: Who Can You Trust? Tom Daschle, Michael Chertoff, Barry McCaffrey, Robert Rubin Or An Airline Employee? -- by Janine R. Wedel from The Blog
• Gee, Who WASN'T Bribed? -- by nospam@example.com (Karl Denninger) from The Market Ticker
• After the Bailouts, Washington's the Boss -- from Wall Street Journal
• Bush White House alumni, prominent Republicans highlight spring book list -- from The Hill
• SC senators split on Bernanke -- from CharlotteObserver.com
• NOT FOR USE BEFORE SAT. DEC. 26 PLEASE -- from Kelowna.com
• Economic crisis shifts nation's financial center to Washington -- from Washington Business Journal
• Belated IRS ruling is good news for schools -- from San Antonio Express

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September 19, 2008 (Friday): Mortgage Bailout Talks; Backstop for Money-Market Funds

18 Sep 2009 21:00:00 PDT

The Distress Test After a horrific week on Wall Street, the question in Washington seems to be: Can what you don’t know not hurt you? With fears that the U.S. economy is at a precipice, Bush administration officials go to Congress and ask for carte blanche in buying billions of dollars in dist...

Original story at Smartmoney.com .

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September 18, 2008 (Thursday): Bailout Buzz; Cracking Down on the Shorts

17 Sep 2009 21:00:00 PDT

Written by letters@smartmoney.com (SmartMoney.com)
Huge Government Bailout Envisioned on Mortgages Remember the Resolution Trust Corporation? The RTC was the government entity created to buy up government group assembled to take over assets from failed savings and loans in the early 1990s. Now it could serve as a model for a government b...

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Paulson and Bernanke: Indictment Time?

22 Apr 2009 17:18:00 PDT

Written by nospam@example.com (Karl Denninger)
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and then-Treasury Department chief Henry Paulson pressured Bank of America Corp. to not discuss its increasingly troubled plan to buy Merrill Lynch & Co. -- a deal that later triggered a government bailout of BofA -- according to testimony by Ke...

Original story at The Market Ticker .

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Podcast: President Bush Meets with Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson - November 24, 2008

23 Nov 2008 21:00:00 PST

President Bush on Monday said, "The Secretary and I share the concerns of our citizens, concerns about jobs, concerns about their savings accounts. This is a tough situation for America. But we'll recover from it. And the first step to recovery is to safeguard our financial system."

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Ok Mr. Obama, Time To Choose

13 Nov 2008 05:28:00 PST

Written by nospam@example.com (Karl Denninger)
We are literally on the precipice of a full-on meltdown despite what the talking heads are saying. Henry Paulson and Ben Bernanke came to you and the rest of Congress about a month ago and said they would "fix it" by buying up illiquid assets.

Original story at The Market Ticker .

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Opinion: Fed Watch: Misguided Policies

13 Nov 2008 00:24:00 PST

Written by Mark Thoma
15:30 *PAULSON SAYS MARKET TURMOIL WON'T ABATE UNTIL HOUSING REBOUNDS In a similar vein, we are seeing increasing interest in support consumer access to credit. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson today announced that TARP is no longer about troubled assets:

Original story at Economist's View .

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Henry Paulson has a brand-new plan

12 Nov 2008 00:03:00 PST

Written by Andrew Leonard
Furthermore, I think, as a nation, we're better off owning stock in the banks that we are injecting capital in, rather than owning toxic assets that are probably never going to be worth their original valuations. I can envision a future in which Citigroup and JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs end...

Original story at Salon .

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Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid Want Henry Paulson To Use Bailout Money For Auto Industry

09 Nov 2008 03:48:00 PST

The letter increases pressure on the administration of George W. Bush to take action as he prepares to hand power to president-elect Barack Obama on Jan. 20. Obama said yesterday that policy options to help the industry will be a “high priority” for his transition team.

Original story at Say Anything .

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Leo W. Gerard: Paulson Deal Cheats American Taxpayers

30 Oct 2008 11:49:17 PDT

Written by Leo W. Gerard
Paulson cheated American taxpayers with his initial expenditure from that $700 billion Wall Street bailout fund -- the $125 billion he gave to nine financial institutions. Now Paulson is no rube. He's a former Goldman Sachs CEO, who has surrounded himself with former Goldman Sachs execu...

Original story at Huffington Post .

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Kevin Phillips: The New Hooverites

28 Oct 2008 10:07:38 PDT

Written by Kevin Phillips
The policies that Paulson and Bernanke did implement at such staggering cost have only begun to do their full long-term damage, which will probably come in a round of even more serious inflation. Kevin Phillips's new book is Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics and the Global Cri...

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Talking with Paulson

16 Oct 2008 21:09:09 PDT

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Morning Brief: The bleeding goes on

16 Oct 2008 05:39:15 PDT

Written by Blake Hounshell
Broader economic recovery will not happen right away," cautioned Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke in a closely watched speech in New York. McCain especially hammered Obama on "Joe the plumber," a voter and small business owner the Democratic nominee met in Ohio.

Original story at Foreign Policy .

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Opinion: Call the G.O.P.’s Bailout Bluff

30 Sep 2008 14:28:40 PDT

Written by Joe Conason
The failure to pass bailout legislation reflected a political system as bereft of confidence as the financial markets. President George W. Bush and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson had no credibility to match the arrogance of their initial demand for absolute power in distributing $70...

Original story at New York Observer .

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Podcast: Chinese products safety fears

30 Jul 2007 00:09:32 PDT

US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson visits China this week amid concerns over their exported goods.

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Opinion: SOX Silliness at HuffPo: US Capital Markets are Becoming Less Competitive

27 Jun 2007 11:35:18 PDT

Written by Steve Bainbridge
From the Journal:Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, concerned that regulators may not be best positioned to properly oversee fast-moving capital markets, said he is launching an internal review to recommend changes to the regulatory system. To maintain our capital markets' leaders...

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Podcast: Treasury chief opposes investor efforts to recover losses

21 Jun 2007 00:00:00 PDT

WASHINGTON Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said Wednesday that he personally initiated his departments role in a Supreme Court case that could hurt shareholders efforts to recover losses in securities fraud lawsuits.

Original story at AZ Central.com .

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Ted Frank on Stoneridge v. Scientific-Atlanta

30 May 2007 23:54:53 PDT

Written by Steve Bainbridge
In the W$J, Ted explains why this securities fraud case pending before the US Supreme Court is of momentous import:Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson called securities litigation the Achilles heel for our economy, endangering the global competitiveness of American financial market...

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Podcast: President Bush Participates in Swearing-In Ceremony for Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson - July 10, 2006

09 Jul 2006 22:00:00 PDT

President Bush on Monday said, "Hank comes to his position with a lifetime of experience in business and finance. He has an intimate knowledge of global markets. He will work to keep this economy of ours competitive and growing, and he will work to ensure fair treatment for America's goods a...

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Podcast: Mr. Risk Goes to Washington

01 Jun 2006 17:00:00 PDT

Investment bankers are making bigger bets with their own assets than ever before, gambling that huge returns will make up for losses when things turn ugly. BusinessWeek Executive Editor John Byrne and investment banking editor Emily Thornton talk about how the skills that Treasury Sec...

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