huffingtonpost.com — An arm of the Federal Reserve, then led by now-Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, told bailed-out insurance giant AIG to withhold key details from the public about overpayments that put billions of extra tax dollars in the coffers of major Wall Street firms, most notably Goldman Sachs.
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georgetirebiterJan 9, 2010
Whenever he can find a bigger piece of crap.
ptronJan 9, 2010
BTW it's still going on. On Christmas Eve the treasury snuck this one in:<a class="user" href="http://treasury.gov/press/releases/2009122415345924543.htm" rel="nofollow">http://treasury.gov/press/releases/200912241534592 ...</a>It basically says the treasury will provide unlimited support for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac over the next 3 years. This is spending power that only Congress can authorize, yet they do it without permission. So now the people of the US are on the hook for an even bigger amount of bad loans, up to an additional 300 Billion!
transporter2000Jan 9, 2010
hope and change /s
Closed AccountJan 10, 2010
It's okay because the Dems are cool with this sort of thing. That's why they elected Obama in the first place.
tmbrownJan 10, 2010
Keynesian economics.
tmbrownJan 10, 2010
Peter Schiff!SchiffforSenate.com
stonerthomasJan 10, 2010
I've been pondering civil disobedience for awhile now. There's definitely ways to handicap some of the blatantly illegitimate policies. But since our communications are all logged, how to organize? How to distribute obstructionist information?It all just seems impossible to me. At least until everyone owns walky-talkies.
yesitsme111Feb 7, 2010
What about Paulson the Former Treasury Secretary just before Geithner you know Paulson had over 200 million in Goldman sachs and he was a former CEO of goldman sachs the company that was paid back 100 percent on the dollar from AIG.Yet they came to us saying the sky was falling and the economy in the united states would come to a End. And it was to help the American People Not for Personal gains by Geithner and Paulson and their greedy criminal banker friends.Ha Look were are these clowns now with more people going into foreclosure losing their homes well jobs first and all the small businesses folding up people moving in tents analyst predict 9 million more foreclosures this year at 3 people per home thats what 27 million more homeless.Wow we really can't thank Geithner and Paulson enough for helping us and looting all are money Say good by to America the land of the Free, I want justice We the American People Of The United States Want Justice.And cut Off that 23 trillion free money credit to the banks NOw I am Outrage and every American that can Understand this Is.
yesitsme111Feb 7, 2010
I wish the president would stop saying that they almost paid us all back every time he is on the TV. They did not almost pay us back forget about the billions they have a credit line of 23.7 Trillion they can come and get anytime at the fed window. if they lose it so what its the hard working class that will suffer Not the criminal bankers and Geithner and Paulson