
Analysis Topic: Politics & Social Trends
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.Wednesday, March 25, 2009
The Apprentice Returns Today at 9pm on BBC1 / Politics / Mainstream Media
By: BBC

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Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Geithner's Thirst for Greater Regulatory Powers and Sir Alan of Selective Amnesia / Politics / Market Regulation
By: Rob_Kirby
March 24, 2009 , I sat, watched and listened as U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Federal Reserve Chairman Benjamin Bernanke gave sworn televised testimony to a U.S. Senate Banking Committee.
The gist of the testimony and solutions posed by both Geithner and Bernanke were that the Federal Reserve / Treasury combo be mandated more regulatory power to cure the existing financial crisis and prevent future financial disasters from occurring – because their existing mandate was inadequate.
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Russia Expects New Financial System Crisis Outburst / Politics / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Pravda
Russia's Finance Ministry is expecting another outburst of problems in the financial system. The problems are going to be connected with the credit default in the real sector of economy and with the reduction of oil prices , Russia's Finance Minister Aleksei Kudrin said Tuesday. Russian stock indexes collapsed after the minister's statements.Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Geithner Asks Americans to Bend Over to Uncle Sam / Politics / Credit Crisis Bailouts
By: Mike_Whitney

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Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Geithner's Arrogance Knows No Bounds, The Most Dangerous Man in America / Politics / Credit Crisis Bailouts
By: Mike_Shedlock

Rep Gresham Barrett : "The last question I have guys, which is the $64 million question or I guess I should say $64 trillion question is: What's the backup plan? If everything fails what do we do? Where do we go from here?"
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Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Who Created The Financial Crisis And Why / Politics / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Steve_Selengut

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Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Krugman's Fatally Flawed Thinking on $200 Billion Lunch / Politics / Credit Crisis Bailouts
By: Mike_Shedlock

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Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Iran's View of President Obama / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: STRATFOR

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Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Bank Bailouts Judgment Day for Geithner / Politics / Credit Crisis Bailouts
By: Mike_Whitney

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Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Economic Stimulus is Bankruptcy of the Economy / Politics / Economic Stimulus
By: Dr_Ron_Paul
The distraction on Capitol Hill this week has to do with the jackpot bonuses that executives at AIG recently received. The argument is over a relative drop in the bucket. The total amount of bonuses given out was $165 million. The government has put $170 billion into AIG so far. Many now are demanding we get this money back. We ought to be spending our time and effort doing something more worthwhile, like figuring out how the Federal Reserve is handling the trillions of dollars they are creating and pumping into the economy, and how that is affecting the purchasing power of dollars in your pocket.Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, March 23, 2009
Geithner's Galling and Dangerous Plan For Bad Bank Toxic Assets / Politics / Credit Crisis Bailouts
By: Mike_Shedlock

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Monday, March 23, 2009
Bailout's Dangerous and Unintended Consequences Will Prolong America's Second Great Depression / Politics / Recession 2008 - 2010
By: Money_and_Markets
Martin Weiss writes: I've just returned from Washington, DC, where I held a press conference at the National Press Club and a round-robin series of meetings with members of Congress … with more to come this week.
Let me first tell you what I told them. Then, I'll explain what I think you should do about it …
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Monday, March 23, 2009
Ben Bernanke Money Printing U.S. Banana Republic Policies / Politics / Quantitative Easing
By: Michael_Pento

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Monday, March 23, 2009
Obama Economic Program Increases America's Bondage to Wall Street Billionaires: / Politics / Credit Crisis Bailouts
By: Richard_C_Cook

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Monday, March 23, 2009
China Afraid of Loss of Value of $2 Trillion of Reserves / Politics / US Bonds
By: Pravda
Dominick L. Auci writes: Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao is worried. His country keeps over $2 trillion of its foreign reserves in U.S. Treasuries. He's afraid that Obama's big spending plans will weaken the dollar and erode the value of those enormous assets. Given the dismal financial state of the rest of the world, that's a pretty high-class problem, especially for a devout communist. Jiaboa called on the United States to “honor its word, stay a credible nation and ensure the safety of Chinese assets”.Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, March 23, 2009
Diverse Economy Comes After Communism and Capitalism / Politics / Global Economy
By: Pravda

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Monday, March 23, 2009
Geithner's Financial System Plan, a Gigantic Confidence Game / Politics / Credit Crisis Bailouts
By: Mike_Shedlock

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Sunday, March 22, 2009
How Citigroup Incompetence Squanders U.S. Taxpayers Money / Politics / Credit Crisis Bailouts
By: Mike_Shedlock

Mar. 19--Lenders have become so overwhelmed by the foreclosure crisis that they are starting to unload properties in bulk to investor groups at steep discounts. Investors then flip the properties for a profit without necessarily improving the home.
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Sunday, March 22, 2009
An American Outrage: Bernie, AIG, and Us / Politics / US Politics
By: Walter_Brasch
There have now been more than 4,000 deaths and 30,000 casualties of American military in the war in Iraq. More than 100,000 Iraqis and others, most of them civilian, have also been killed in what is now known to be an unnecessary war. But, we as a nation are not outraged.Read full article... Read full article...
Sunday, March 22, 2009
U.S. Dollar as the World’s Only Reserve Currency is illegal / Politics / US Dollar
By: Pravda
A new world currency must be created under the aegis of the United Nations Organization, Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev stated during his speech at the 21 st Congress of the Eurasian Association of Universities in Astana.Read full article... Read full article...