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edhopper

(33,587 posts)
Fri Jul 13, 2012, 01:56 PM Jul 2012

Confirming my opinion that Geithner is Obama's worst decision.

"New York Fed's Libor Documents Reveal Cozy Relationship Between Regulators, Banks "

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/13/new-york-fed-libor-documents_n_1671524.html

The New York Federal Reserve on Friday released documents showing it knew banks were manipulating a key interest rate more than four years ago.

The documents, which date back to 2007, show that the Fed was fully aware that banks were lying about their borrowing costs when setting Libor, and chose to take no action against them.

The documents will likely feed growing concerns about whether the New York Fed, its former chief Timothy Geithner and other market watchdogs did everything they could to stop the manipulation. The documents also raise more questions about whether the New York Fed and other regulators were too cozy with the banks involved, looking the other way in order to spare the banks too much pain at a time when the financial crisis was still brewing.


Picking a Bankster insider, who is more concerned with Wall Street than working American always seemed wrong to me.
This just confirms that he is one of the big reasoned we did not and will not get true reform from this administration.

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Confirming my opinion that Geithner is Obama's worst decision. (Original Post) edhopper Jul 2012 OP
did you see that chart on DU yesterday showing.. grasswire Jul 2012 #1
No edhopper Jul 2012 #2
Link? AnotherMcIntosh Jul 2012 #3
don't have one grasswire Jul 2012 #4
I guess we're all Concern Trolls now.... Junkdrawer Jul 2012 #5
Geithner wasn't the only bad pick by Pres. Obama... matmar Jul 2012 #6
Not the only one, true edhopper Jul 2012 #7
This: CrispyQ Jul 2012 #8

grasswire

(50,130 posts)
1. did you see that chart on DU yesterday showing..
Fri Jul 13, 2012, 01:58 PM
Jul 2012

....the various members of the Treasury Dept. and their ties to Wall St.? It was surely, surely disheartening.

edhopper

(33,587 posts)
2. No
Fri Jul 13, 2012, 02:16 PM
Jul 2012

I'll have to look for it. Not that I need more things to get depressed about.
As Atrios says, we are in servitude to our Galtian Overlords.

 

matmar

(593 posts)
6. Geithner wasn't the only bad pick by Pres. Obama...
Fri Jul 13, 2012, 02:45 PM
Jul 2012

...Larry Summers ranks right up there with him.

This election shouldn't even be close but it will be because Obama and Reid wanted to play nice with the schoolyard bully.

It may be too late.

CrispyQ

(36,478 posts)
8. This:
Sat Jul 14, 2012, 10:33 AM
Jul 2012
This election shouldn't even be close but it will be because Obama and Reid wanted to play nice with the schoolyard bully.
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