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A 25 Billion Dollar Secret: The NY Fed, Goldman & The AIG Cover-Up
A 25 Billion Dollar Secret: The NY Fed, Goldman & The AIG Cover-Up
How The FRBNY's President Tim Geithner And Chairman Stephen Friedman Demanded Par For Goldman Sachs And The Rest Of Wall Street And Then Tried To Cover It All Up
Geithner Urges Banks to Resume Lending, Help Recovery (Update1)
Geithner Urges Banks to Resume Lending, Help Recovery (Update1)
bloomberg.com — Nov. 1 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said the country’s economic recovery and job creation hinge on banks taking more risk and restoring the flow of credit to businesses. “The big risk we face now is that banks are going to ... (more) Geithner Urges Banks to Resume Lending, Help Recovery ...
Guest Post From Dylan Ratigan: Step 1 -- Fire Tim Geithner
Guest Post From Dylan Ratigan: Step 1 -- Fire Tim Geithner
dailybail.com — Submitted to The Daily Bail by Dylan Ratigan ******* A year ago it was revealed to the American people that our banking system was a legalized Ponzi scheme in which bank and insurance CEOs paid themselves billions of dollars in personal compensation to lend and insure assets with ... (more) Guest Post From Dylan Ratigan: Step 1 -- Fire Tim Geithner
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FT Alphaville — Principal content Further reading Posted by Izabella Kaminska on Nov 06 08:14. Elsewhere on Friday, - The dollar as a funding currency . - Thermodynamics and US executive pay. - A dollar shortage in China? - What’s up with the UUP Dollar ETF? - Lessons for the foreign exchange market from the global financial crisis. - IASB at odds with FASB on ‘ extend and pretend ‘. - The $25bn secret . - Is the market worried about the wrong deficit ? - Chart of the day: Bank failures . - Further, further ...

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