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"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.
grasswire
(50,130 posts)....the various members of the Treasury Dept. and their ties to Wall St.? It was surely, surely disheartening.
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.
AnotherMcIntosh
(11,064 posts)grasswire
(50,130 posts)The chart was posted inside a thread somewhere.
Junkdrawer
(27,993 posts)Welcome to the club.
matmar
(593 posts)...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.
edhopper
(33,587 posts)but the worst.