
Analysis Topic: Politics & Social Trends
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.Thursday, October 02, 2008
Bailout Bill Marks the End of America as We Know It? / Politics / Credit Crisis Bailouts
By: Richard_C_Cook

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Wednesday, October 01, 2008
Europe Puts Pressure on Bush to Pass Bailout Plan / Politics / Credit Crisis Bailouts
By: Mike_Shedlock
Bloomberg is reporting Trichet Says U.S. Must Pass Plan to Rescue `Global Finance'European Central Bank President Jean- Claude Trichet said U.S. lawmakers must pass a $700 billion rescue package for banks to shore up confidence in the global financial system.
"It has to go, for the sake of the U.S. and for the sake of global finance," Trichet said in an interview in Frankfurt with Bloomberg Television late yesterday. "I am confident, but of course it is the decision of the U.S. Congress."
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Wednesday, October 01, 2008
The Political Nature of the Credit Crisis / Politics / Credit Crisis 2008
By: STRATFOR

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Wednesday, October 01, 2008
Why the Bailout Vote Failed / Politics / Credit Crisis Bailouts
By: Walter_Brasch
The Republican leaders of the House of Representatives grabbed a half dozen bags of sincerity, looked directly into every TV camera they could find, and lied. The House had just defeated, 228–205, a bipartisan $700 billion bailout bill. But it was the Democrats who were the subject of vicious rhetoric.Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
The Pre-Planned Financial / Economic 9-11 of 2008? / Politics / Market Manipulation
By: T_Anthony_Michael
WHAT: A pre-planned collapse of the US (and global) financial and economic systems.
WHO: The same characters who perpetrated the original 911.
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Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Wall Street Mega-Crash: The Last Bank Standing / Politics / Credit Crisis Bailouts
By: Steve_Selengut

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Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Bernanke and Paulson in the Dark on Bailout Impact / Politics / Credit Crisis Bailouts
By: Mick_Phoenix
Pre Vote Commentary - Welcome to the Weekly Report. This week we use the words of Ben Shalom Bernanke to describe why the $700Billion bailout will fail. I am going to assume the Bailout is enacted in one form or another and is probably announced around the Far East market opening times. However, there is a possibility that if Congress has not agreed then no soothing words will be forthcoming and a crash in share prices is used to "galvanise" action. We shall see.Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
How To Stop A Run On The Banks / Politics / Credit Crisis Bailouts
By: Mike_Shedlock

Bloomberg is reporting Libor Rises Most on Record After U.S. Congress Rejects Bailout .
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Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Political Leaders and Pundits Are Clueless About Bailout Rejection / Politics / Credit Crisis Bailouts
By: Richard_C_Cook
Stephen Pearlstein is the Washington Post 's Pulitzer Prize-winning business columnist. In print and as a TV talking head—like on Chris Matthews' Hardball late last week—Pearlstein is one of the foremost media cheerleaders for the $700 billion Wall Street bailout bill.
Or should we call it the Bush-Paulson-McCain-Obama- Pelosi-Reid-Dodd-Frank Wall Street bailout bill?
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Monday, September 29, 2008
How Voter Fury Stopped The Bailout Plan / Politics / Credit Crisis Bailouts
By: Mike_Shedlock
Inquiring minds are considering the Wall Street Journal article How Voter Fury Stopped Bailout
Left-Right Combo By Opponents Put Plan on the Ropes.
The defeat in Congress of a proposed $700 billion economic-rescue package followed an intense outpouring of voter anger, fanned by politicians, interest groups and media on the left and right, that overwhelmed calls from the president and top lawmakers to pass the deal.
Monday, September 29, 2008
The Bailout Battle Continues: What's Next? / Politics / Credit Crisis Bailouts
By: Mike_Shedlock
We won the battle. Please remember this is a war.Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank, Treasury Secretary Paulson, Obama, and McCain all still want to pass this stupid bill.
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Monday, September 29, 2008
Republicans Defy Bush and Vote NO to Socialist Bailout Bill / Politics / Credit Crisis Bailouts
By: Richard_C_Cook
FINALLY, someone said “No” to the criminal gang that runs the U.S. economy when the House voted down the Bush-Paulson $700 billion Wall Street bailout plan by a vote of 228-205.
Shame on the Democrats! Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, and Majority Whip Rahm Emanuel delivered “yea” votes from 60 percent of Democratic House members and thereby gave the bill the only chance of passage it had.
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Monday, September 29, 2008
Congress Votes NO to Bailout Plan- We Won!!! / Politics / Credit Crisis Bailouts
By: Mike_Shedlock
I want to thank each and every one of you who took the time and energy to defeat this monstrosity. This was an enormous victory for Democracy.205 Yes - 228 No - We Won!!!!
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Monday, September 29, 2008
Financial Catastrophe Entire Global Financial System in Collapse / Politics / Credit Crisis 2008
By: Stephen_Lendman

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Monday, September 29, 2008
Bailout Plan No Solution to America's Ponzi Scheme Economy / Politics / Credit Crisis Bailouts
By: Mike_Stathis

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Monday, September 29, 2008
Financial Crisis Bailout or Not, Economic Depression is Upon Us / Politics / Credit Crisis Bailouts
By: Mike_Stathis

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Sunday, September 28, 2008
Mainstream Media's Failure to Understand the Credit Crunch / Politics / Credit Crisis 2008
By: Gerard_Jackson

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Sunday, September 28, 2008
World of Unreal Finance Hitting the Real Economy / Politics / Credit Crisis Bailouts
By: David_Chu
“It's not the economy, stupid!” - Bill Clinton's campaign slogan was: “It's the economy, stupid!”
Actually that was James Carville's maxim and battle cry for the 1992 presidential election. Mr. “Ragin' Cajun” Carville, as you probably don't remember, was the commander-in-chief of Bill Clinton's first campaign for the White House. He was and is married to Mary Joe Matalin who happened to be working on George H.W. Bush's 1992 re-election campaign! Ms. Matalin was also an assistant to President George W. Bush and a special counselor to Vice President Dick Cheney until 2003.
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Sunday, September 28, 2008
Banking System in Meltdown, Fed Fights to Keep Dead Banks Alive / Politics / Credit Crisis 2008
By: Mike_Whitney

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Sunday, September 28, 2008
US Congress Bailout Deal Passes But... / Politics / Credit Crisis Bailouts
By: Mike_Shedlock
Well I am now convinced there is a deal of sorts. The New Your Times is reporting Breakthrough Reached in Negotiations on Bailout .Officials said that Congressional staff members would work through the night to finalize the language of the agreement and draft a bill, and that the bill would be brought to the House floor for a vote on Monday.
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