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How the Fed and the Treasury Stonewalled Mark Pittman to His Dying Breath
Originally published at www.CounterPunch.org. by Pam Martens On the President’s first day in office on January 21, 2009, he issued an Open Government memo promising the American people a new era of transparency. On March 19, 2009, under the President’s orders, the Attorney General’s office issued detailed guidelines on how Federal agencies were to respond
Bloomberg Freedom Of Information Act Lawsuit Goes To Supreme Court Without Fed
In November of 2008, I reported a lawsuit brought by Bloomberg News which requested the Federal Reserve disclose which securities it had accepted on behalf of taxpayers as collateral for $1.5 trillion in loans to banks during the financial crisis (see original story here). Since then, the courts have backed Bloomberg’s suit under the Freedom
Kartik Athreya for Fed Chairman
Frederick Sheehan is the author of Panderer to Power: The Untold Story of How Alan Greenspan Enriched Wall Street and Left a Legacy of Recession (McGraw-Hill, 2009). Federal Reserve economist Kartik Athreya has written what all Federal Reserve apologists believe: "Economics is Hard. Don’t Let Bloggers Tell You Otherwise." This paper of June 17, 2010,
Other Alpha Sources
A post on the latest economics debates by Claus Vistesen Steve Waldman has a very good post this week about the folly about the austerity vs non-austerity discussion which seems to be going the rounds at the moment. In fact, it you take a mental picture of the current financial market discourse most arguments can
More On The Supposed Economic Illiteracy Of Bloggers And Other Links
Must-reads Rajiv Sethi: On Blogs and Economic Discourse Time to shut down the US Federal Reserve? – Telegraph Blogs The Usual Fare Morgan Stanley – Global Economic Forum – The Case for Argentina Leaving oil spill alone might have been better for environment – National Post Zoo plans to bring rare animals back from the
On Bloggers’ Supposed Economic Ignorance and Other Links
In defense of bloggers on the economy Marginal Revolution: How hard is economics? Signal and Noise in Economics Writing, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty Matthew Yglesias » Do I Have Anything Interesting to Say? TheMoneyIllusion » Why won’t those &$*%#@ bloggers go away? FT Alphaville » Bloggers can’t do economics.
Portrait of the anonymous online poster
Check out the related article at the Globe below. Where are the gals, pray tell? Hat tip Tracy Alloway Source: Inside the mind of the anonymous online poster – Boston Globe
Edward Hugh profiled in the New York Times and other links
Must-Read Blog Prophet of Euro Zone Doom – NYTimes.com The Usual Fare BBC News – Finland in double-dip recession Sarkozy, Merkel urge faster EU curbs on speculation – National Post BP well may be spewing 100,000 barrels a day, scientist says | McClatchy Guest Post: Predatory Pharma – An End to Too Big to Nail?
Lena Horne: 1917-2010
Sources Lena Horne Dies at Age 92 – Art Beat Lena Horne – Wikipedia Lena Horne Obituary – The State, SC Remembering Groundbreaking Jazz Icon, Actress Lena Horne –
Full Statement of UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Decision to Step Down
Below is the transcript of Brown’s remarks. "We have a parliamentary and not presidential system in this country and as I said on Friday, with no party able to command a parliamentary majority arising from the general election, my constitutional duty as prime minister is to ensure that government continues while parties explore options for
Is the Goldman case a one-off or the first of many?
This is THE issue that everyone wants to know. When I wrote the The politics of the Goldman fraud case and referred to "leeway in how to proceed later against Goldman and other firms using the same practice," I meant that it was not at all clear whether this was a politically-motivated one–off or the
Vicky Ward: On Lehman "we really do need prosecutors to get people into a courtroom"
Vicky Ward, author of "The Devil’s Casino: Friendship, Betrayal, and the High Stakes Games Played Inside Lehman Brothers," told Bloomberg that prosecutors need to get going if we are going to get any answers regarding why Lehman Brothers collapsed in a heap in the largest bankruptcy in US history and revealing a massive $150 billion