Question by Some Chick: Can we afford Obama? If Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) Could Enact All Of His Campaign Proposals, Taxpayers Would Be Faced With Financing $ 874.35 Billion In New Spending Over One White House Term: Updated February 14, 2008: Obama’s National Infrastructure Reinvestment Bank Will Cost $ 60 Billion Over Ten Years; Equal [...]
Question by Vote Republicrat: Is Obama’s “financial regulatory overhaul” essentially the last piece of the socialist pie? http://www.examiner.com/x-13396-Minneapolis-Economic-Policy-Examiner~y2009m6d19-Fed-up-with-Ben-Bernanke I don’t know whether housing prices are where they should be, but much of what has happened has been supported by the strength of the U.S. economy.” This was Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke speaking on CNBC [...]
Question by A Culpeper Minuteman: Why Flip Out About AIG Executives Bonuses, When AIG Is Being Used to Funnel BILLIONS Into Foreign Banks? Yes, Billions of dollars are being funneled through AIG into banks in Switzerland, the UK, and Germany, to name a few… So why is America distracted with $ 165 Million (or 1/10th [...]
Question by flyerd1: Does everyone understand why Rick Santelli’s tirade is wrong? Steve Liesman is correct but other people (like Santelli, Kudlow, Caruso-Cabrera, etc.) basically have trouble with the ole’ “forest for the trees”… The strange “visceral” reaction people often have to the thought that “someone” (other than themselves of course) “may” get a little [...]
Question by : One year after near complete collapse what has changed? http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/09/13/one-year-after-crisis-banks-back-to-risk-taking/ EW YORK (Sept. 13) – A year after the financial system nearly collapsed, the nation’s biggest banks are bigger and regaining their appetite for risk. Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase and others – which have received tens of billions of dollars in federal [...]
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