timothy geithner
Seems There Will Be Tax Hikes for the Middle Class…
By PUMA Pundit on August 3, 2009
Can anyone claim to be surprised? It is amusing that tax-cheat Timothy Geithner would actually say taxes are probably going to be raised for Middle America, but it is what it is… AP President Barack Obama’s treasury secretary said Sunday he cannot rule out higher taxes to help tame an exploding budget deficit, and his [...]
Posted in White House | Tagged Alan Greenspan, barack obama, Face the Nation, federal reserve, Fox News Sunday, jim demint, larry summers, mccain, meet the press, middle class, national economic council, State of the Union, tax hikes, This Week, timothy geithner, treasury secretary
As 467,000 Jobs Lost In June, Abject Failure of Stimulus Becomes Clearer…
By PUMA Pundit on July 2, 2009
When Barack Obama was pushing for his stimulus, anyone who understood basic economic theory knew that the premise for it was fundamentally flawed; you grow the economy by lowering taxes, not by printing more money and increasing government spending. Either way, despite the Stimulus, official unemployment numbers have hit a 26 year high of 9.5%, [...]
Posted in Featured | Tagged barack obama, gdp, healtcare insurance reform, jobs, stimulus, timothy geithner, unemployment, unemployment benefits
Dept. Of Treasury Documents Reveal Banks Were Forced To Take TARP Money…
By PUMA Pundit on June 3, 2009
A quick summary of events thus far: Banks were forced to take TARP Money Banks which took TARP money subjected themselves to far reaching govt control As a result, the nine major banks were effectively nationalized. Some argued that banks have only themselves to blame for taking TARP money as they knew the consequences. However, [...]
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Obama’s ‘Bank Stress Test Is A Sham’- William Black, Former Federal Bank Regulator
By PUMA Pundit on April 6, 2009
Did anyone really think the ‘Stress Tests’ Obama and his lapdog Tim Geithner promised to conduct to determine the health of banks had anything to do with reality? Obamatons did, the rest of us already knew better. (video after article) There is no real purpose [of the stress test] other than to fool us. To [...]
Posted in Media | Tagged barack obama, potemkin model, s&l prosecutor, stress test, timothy geithner, william black
U.S Economic Policy Now Resembles That of an Emerging Market Economy
By PUMA Pundit on March 26, 2009
And our national saga of being led by an inept Obama administration continues, our economy policy has become an international laughing stock, having taken on the characteristics of the economies of emerging nations. The parallels between U.S. policymaking and what we see in emerging markets are clearest in how we’ve mishandled the banking crisis. We [...]
Posted in Op-Ed | Tagged aig, argentina, barack obama, bear sterns, desmond lachman, domingo cavallo, economic policy, henry paulson, latin america, russia, timothy geithner, wall street