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By PUMA Pundit on March 25, 2009
How the cookie crumbles. So much for the transparency and accountability that Barack Obama promised. It seems Chris Dodd’s wife, Jackie Clegg Dodd was a director at AIG. RCP No wonder Senator Christopher Dodd (D-Conn) went wobbly last week when asked about his February amendment ratifying hundreds of millions of dollars in bonuses to executives [...]
Posted in Capitol Hill | Tagged aig bonuses, chris dodd, jackie clegg dodd, kevin rennie, Treasury Department |
By PUMA Pundit on March 24, 2009
America’s journey through the twilight zone continues. Now, Barack Obama wants to have the power to seize a host of previously-unregulated financial firms on the pretext of the seizures providing economic stabilization. Firstly, why would a government which can’t even find the manpower to staff the top echelons the Treasury Department want to get involved in [...]
Posted in Featured | Tagged aig, barack obama, congress, timothy geithner, Treasury Department, treasury secretary, White House |
By PUMA Pundit on March 23, 2009
With the economy being in free fall mode, a reasonable person would not be remiss in assumming it would be Barack Obama’s #1 priority. Well… Not only has Barack Obama not filled 17 of 18 positions at the Treasury Department requiring Senate Confirmation, but Obama’s vaunted Presidential Economic Recovery Advisory Board has yet to meet [...]
Posted in White House | Tagged barack obama, federal reserve, paul volcker, Presidential Economic Recovery Advisory Board, Treasury Department
By PUMA Pundit on January 28, 2009
I am surprised that the MSM is surprised at discovering that Obama is a hypocrite. If they had actually engaged in real journalism during the campaign, none of this would come as a shock to them, but they didn’t, and now they cry wolf… CNN Unfortunately, we are again asking the president to explain why [...]
Posted in White House | Tagged barack obama, goldman sachs, lobbyists, mark patterson, tim geithner, Treasury Department |
By PUMA Pundit on January 13, 2009
Interesting… WSJ According to people familiar with the matter, Mr. Geithner employed a housekeeper whose immigration papers expired during her tenure with Mr. Geithner, currently president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The woman went on to get a green card to work legally in the country and federal immigration authorities didn’t press [...]
Posted in Capitol Hill | Tagged barack obama, IMF, irs, taxes, timothy geithner, Treasury Department |