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Tim Geithner's "Financial Crisis" Declassified Phone Log Released
Politico has obtained the phone log of conversations performed by then FRBNY President Tim Geithner during the period of the financial crisis, or specifically September 14, 2008 through the end of the year. Some of the people called include (many of them repeatedly) pretty much all the usual suspects:
- Robert Rubin
- Lloyd Blankfein
- Larry Summers
- Hank Paulson
- Jamie Dimon
- Ben Bernanke
- Dick Fuld
- Larry Fink
And also... who is the mysterious ex-Goldmanite Dan Jester and why was he, together with Hank Paulson, the first two people Tim calls the day Lehman files?
As for the phone list, focusing on Wednesday, September 17th, two days after the Lehman failure, and the day when the money markets seize the order of calls is as follows:
- 10:54 pm - Larry Summers
- 10:50 pm - Scott Alvarez
- 10:36 pm - Jim Wilkinson
- 10:11 pm - Don Kohn (our next Federal Reserve Chairman pro tem)
- 9:34 pm - Jeff Immelt
- 8:19 pm - Don Kohn
- 8:13 pm - Cathy Cassidy
- 7:30 pm - Hank Paulson
- 7:07 pm - Lloyd Blankfein
- 6:58 pm - Lloyd Blankfein
- 6:47 pm - Rodgin Cohen
- 6:42 pm - Bob Steel
- 6:31 pm - Jamie Dimon
- 6:27 pm - Bob Greenhill
- 6:25 pm - Hank Paulson
- 5:45 pm - Ben Bernanke/Don Kohn
- 5:30 pm - Don Kohn
- 5:14 pm - Chris Cox
- 5:09 pm - Chris Cox
- 5:03 pm - Ed Liddy
- 5:01 pm - Don Kohn
- 4:47 pm - Paulson
- 4:27 pm - Mike Neal/Cathy Cassidy
- 4:23 pm - Robert Rubin
- 4:15 pm - Bob Kelly
- 4:11 pm - Bill Dudley
- 4:00 pm - Jeff Immelt
- 2:29 pm - Jamie Dimon
- 2:20 pm - Don Kohn
- 2:10 pm - Bob Kelly
- 1:46 pm - Don Kohn
- 1:19 pm - Blankfein
- 12:49 pm - Paulson
- 12:15 pm - Paulson
- 12:10 pm - Bernanke
- 10:41 am - Peter Fisher
- 10:39 am - Paulson
- 10:35 am - Ken DeRegt(Morgan Stanley risk management)
- 10:33 am - Paulson
- 10:29 am - Chris Cox
- 9:41 am - Paulson
- 9:40 am - Warsh
- 9:32 am - Michelle Smith
- 8:18 am - Dan Jester (Goldman Sachs)
- 8:17 am - Dan Jester
- 8:17 am - John Mack
- 8:16 am - Jamie Dimon
- 8:15 am - Jamie Dimon
- 8:10 am - Sheila Bair
- 7:59 am - Larry Fink
- 7:56 am - John Thain
- 7:49 am - Brian Leach
- 7:48 am - Paulson
- 7:44 am - Blankfein
- 7:39 am - Dimon
- 7:31 am - Chris Cox
- 7:22 am - Paulson
And here is the call log from September 15, the day Lehman files:
- 9:05 pm - Tony Ryan & Don Kohn
- 8:18 pm - Michelle Smith
- 7:56 pm - Hank Paulson
- 7:15 pm - Governor Shirakawa, Bank of Japan
- 6:34 pm - Hillary Clinton
- 6:20 pm - Hank Paulson
- 6:20 pm - Don Kohn
- 6:16 pm - Paulson
- 6:07 pm - Bob Kelly
- 5:52 pm - Dan Jester
- 5:38 pm - Peter Fischer, Blackrock
- 5:32 pm - Lloyd Blankfein
- 5:04 pm - Dan Jester
- 4:58 pm - David Patterson
- 4:23 pm - Peter Kraus
- 4:04 pm - Bernanke
- 3:58 pm - Brady Dougan/CS
- 3:57 pm - Dan Jester
- 3:52 pm - Bob Diamond
- 3:49 pm - John Thain
- 3:40 pm - Jeff Immelt
- 3:36 pm - Hank Greenberg
- 3:31 pm - Meg Mcdonnell
- 3:27 pm - Meg Mcdonnell
- 3:23 pm - Larry Fink
- 3:05 pm - Lee Sachs
- 2:52 pm - Bernanke
- 2:37 pm - Paulson
- 2:34 pm - Vik Pandit
- 12:10 pm - Bernanke
- 1:45 am - Calum McCarthy
- 1:42 am - Barry Zubrow
- 1:28 am - Jamie Dimon
- 12:43 pm - Jeff Lacker
- 12:38 pm - Hildebrand
- 12:30 pm - Paul Volcker
- 11:50 am - Chris Cox
- 11:27 am - Peter Petterson
- 11:21 am - Charles O'Byrne
- 10:59 am - Jerry Corrigan
- 10:50 am - Michael Bloomberg
- 10:36 am - Eric Dinallo
- 10:30 am - Hank Paulson
- 10:25 am - Chuck Schumer
- 10:19 am - Bob Willumstad
- 9:56 am - Jerry Corrigan
- 8:51 am - Shirakawa
- 8:05 am - Paulson
- 7:38 am - Jean-Claude Trichet
- 7:30 am - Dan Jester/Hank Paulson
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Well done sire, well done. Nothing like some friday night Haiti telethon financial laundry!
Why isn't Barney Frank on here? LOL
I would like to see the phone logs 5 days before they filed.
+infinity
I want to see the phone log within a few days before AIG was bailed out the first time (the money went out throught the back door to counterparties). You may see how much GS was involved in that decision.
I would like to see subpoenas with all those names on them.
send em to gitmo for questioning
+infinity+1
Psychic Friends Network on this phone list or did he call from the cell?
Is his mom on the list?
...and all the kings horses
and all the kings men
couldn't put humpty dumpty back together again...
Has this dumb butt never heard of a conference call? Jesus Christ almighty. I have seen a lot of stupid stuff here, but this beats them all. It is not the number of calls, it is how long each lasted. Was he taking a vote, over and over and over again? Or, is no one answering his call? Could caller ID be in place. Hillary Clinton? He called Hillary Clinton? WTF.
You completely missed the point of what was going on here. This list of people together has massive implications. What is it that links them all together? think...
I appreciate the hint Altan. It is too late on a Friday for me to think. I'll have to give it a try on Monday. But I will guess, it is his address book.
I believe you are referring to the so called Zionist Conspiracy. It is a myth perpetrated by Mossad to divert attention from George Soros' One World Government.
Not what I was referring to at all, and I in turn postulate that your soros one world gubment talk is diversion from the cyclical market debasement we are about to enter. Consider this: why would these people who have no such confirmed relationships in the visible media complex be placing personal phone calls to each other? Answer: they are seasoned operators whose reality is probably far different than what is portrayed to us. I do think intelligence communities are involved, however more in the capacity they always have been. I recommend Bloody Treason, and also Deep Politics.
god bless you - someone finally fucking gets it!!
peter dale scott is highly recommended for deep
politics...
i could rabble rouse on a soapbox for hours
on end but suffice it to say that the visible
and de jure government is quite different
from the invisible and defacto government....
hillary clinton is a cia operative....many many
congressshits and other are cia assets/operatives/agents/et al.
read fletcher prouty to understand how the cia
began systematically infiltrating all federal
government agencies to control them....read
catherine austin fitts (former hud under secretary)
for living proof that government employees
answer to "higher authority" - and it is no one
inside the government acting in official capacity....
then read how the bank of england operated the
first and most important intelligence agency in
the world...the nexus between the cia and fed
is indivisible....
the people who rule america are not your elected
officials...it is the very military industrial
complex of which eisenhower warned and which
murdered kennedy...truman acknowledged the same
in a stunning 12/22/1963 op-ed piece in the nyt....
if you wanted names of the oligarchy - you just
got an eye full on this list....until the fed
and the cia are destroyed there is no chance
of republican government...that horse crap from
fucktards thinking that a dem vs repub makes a
difference is so naive, foolish, and laughable
that i sometimes wonder why i bother to point out
the stupidity....
Truman signed the National Security Act of 1947, start from there because it's a different country after that,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Act_of_1947
Intelligence is an extension of Capital. The people in the phone log are Capital operatives.
truman claimed (and i believe it to a point) that
his only interest in creating the cia was to
form an agency capable of cohesively collating
disparate intelligence information into a coherent
synopsis.....as he stated in his nyt op-ed he did
not have any interest whatsover in permitting it
to conduct operations...(operations is a generic
term which includes among other things "executive
action" - i.e. murder of heads of state including
those of the usa.)
unfortunately, eisenhower, to his later regret,
issued nsam 10 which authorized the agency to
engage in covert operations provided that it
supplied plausible deniability to the official
de jure government. that order has never been
rescinded.
correction - the directive was nsc-10/2 and
was issued in 1948 making it truman's baby...so
truman's editorial was self-serving hogwash
although still a jaw dropper when read with the
right knowledge...
It looks like Tim Geithner was committing open treason or at least egregious insubordination in contradicting the Obama on his new bank measures.
Who's running this show anyway? < that was rhetorical :)
no shit sherlock.
with whom did you want him to conference?
we also do not have call duration although in
some cases it can be inferred....
the hillary clinton call is interesting...
When do we arrest these people?
That should have been done in September, 2008....it'll never happen now....
"We"? What "we" are you referring to Orly? Let us know when you have them handcuffed.
"We"? What "we" are you referring to Orly? You go ahead and start. Let us know when you have them handcuffed. We will all show up then, guaranteed. Call me?
The A-team includes Dan Jester, a former strategic officer for Goldman who has been involved in most of Treasury’s recent initiatives, especially the government takeover of the mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Mr. Jester has also been central to the effort to inject capital into banks, a list that includes Goldman.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/19/business/19gold.html?pagewanted=all
Dan Jester (obvious)
OT
save this for a Saturday morning read from one of Obama's biggest supporters Mort Z
The Incredible Deflation of Barack Obamahttp://www.usnews.com/articles/opinion/mzuckerman/2010/01/21/mort-zucker...
...
Obama going downhill
He's like popcorn, he'll fill you up but there's no substance.
send the monkey back to the zoo
send him back to his country of citizenship -
indonesia....
i am thinking that there is a very strong connection
between clinton, Mochtar Riady, and soetoro....
riady was a big bag carrier for supposedly clinton's
slush funds but he may have been more connected
to soetoro and training him for the presidency...
#2 on the list, Scott Alverez, is general counsel of the Fed. Alan Grayson shredded him like mozzarella a few months back.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXmNpdYpfnk
I know what the fuck it is all about. His kid was selling Girl Scout cookies for a trip to Disney World and he was taking orders.
+1 heehee
Are all my phone calls this short?
The mysterious Dan Jester? What mysterious? He's a billionaire from Goldman Sachs who pulls the puppet strings from a behind a green curtain in the land of fucking Oz.
What was he doing when he wasn't on the phone?
He was probably trying to remember who he just called.
reading zh?
Learning to smoke cigarettes? Fingernails gone!
one hand on his 'johnson' while the other one takes everything out of our pockets.
that's what I was thinking but didn't want to say...
me too. But I was getting ready to write it up till I saw this comment.
reviewing the turbotax tutorial
preping for the taping of his turbotax commercial.
First, bahahaha!
Second, I bet that popularity is his main concern.
Third, what a douche!
"The A-team includes Dan Jester, a former strategic officer for Goldman who has been involved in most of Treasury’s recent initiatives, especially the government takeover of the mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Mr. Jester has also been central to the effort to inject capital into banks, a list that includes Goldman."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/19/business/19gold.html?pagewanted=all
jinx
whoa...nice play, team.
+11
All this and I've never heard of him. This guy smells like trouble.
His name is so perfect you couldn't make it up.
The A-team includes Dan Jester, a former strategic officer for Goldman who has been involved in most of Treasury’s recent initiatives, especially the government takeover of the mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Mr. Jester has also been central to the effort to inject capital into banks, a list that includes Goldman.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/19/business/19gold.html?pagewanted=all
jinx Caught me looking for a tag "jester", Lizzy.
You owe Lizzy a Coke.
Now now. Let's not get them hooked on drugs just because they participated in a synchronicity.
This list of contacts is (by and large) like a "Who's Who" of douches.
Could he call Mr. Jester more often? What is that guy, his puppeteer?
It would be nice to have times with the phone logs, but the article seems mostly useless honestly (just because there are no times). Unless you know every person on the list.
Regardless, if you look at the time gap on the first day, it looks like Timmy took a very, very late lunch (that is if he was on the phone ALL day), and for that at least he should be rewarded (even if he didn't get any work done, he get's an A FOR EFFORT!)
Timmah needed twitter
<TimTheTaxMax> Down Goes Frazier!
<Cankles> Thx 4 hedup, B Hussein O gonna owe me big for this info!
<HankDaddyWarBuck$> That one about Frazier never gets old - LOL!
Cankle bitch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BOGCqne0lE
Most likely he knew this was coming again "he makes a
fine second in command" from the lips of one who would know. Not taking anything away from him but as everyone can witness he is in way over his head.
Dp you suppose this phone log is news to SIGTARP? I think not.
Are all these outgoing calls? Either way, I'm sure that first call with Governor Shirakawa must have been pretty uncomfortable.
I would like to see the log a few days before they first bailed out AIG, the money that went out the back door to the counterparties. You may see how much GS was involved in that decision.
How come Warren was never called?
considering he's called derivatives financial WMD then is it really a surprise they didnt call him?
Others may well have. Geithner may well have, from a different phone. Just not on that phone according to the information presented.
WB=Patsy, not mole.
Geithner Spoke to Buffett on AIG Aid Day
Why didn't Warren buy out AIG? His an insurance man and AIG is a insurance company? Instead he invests 5 billion/pertuity in GS.
What about the phone log for Sept 11, 2008; the day of the 550 billion dollar run at the Fed Window. It never made the evening news but some senators, Jankorski, for example were briefed by Paulson. It was the dynimate that got this avalanche started. Of course it starts in London. The electronic bank run should be made public or investigated , maybe on 2 years as the Fed wants.
I noticed Chris Cox took down his photo from the net. He dosn't like being accused of being GS man man at the exchange, greasing the markets, raising margins, peeking at others books, all on behalf of Goldman; all to get the market tumbling: it makes sense he is on list multipy times.
The best part has to be they install an ex Goldman to head AIG: With Cox at SEC and Karnashi at CFTC and the new CEO of AiG, GS has created a total vertically integrated criminal organization untouchable by law.
More and more I see the date of 9/11/2008 as having great significance in this entire charade, and yet no public investigation and report of the event itself:
"Good article; I'm seeing more and better explanations of what happened in those critical September days. However, most of the new analysis leaves out the most important fact: the real run on the money market funds that drained more than half a trillion from the system in two hours happened on Thursday, September 11, 2008 between 9:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. (article,"September 11, 2008 -- America's Economic 9/11?" American Free Press)Does that date and time frame ring any bells? Many observers mistake the Monday, September 15 when Paulson and Bernanke went to congress in a cold sweat for the event itself. This was not just a run on the banks as many assume, it was the first-ever cyberspace financial attack that let Washington know exactly who had Uncle Sam by the short and curlies. That's why congress hurriedly and overwhelmingly passed the bailout in spite of the public being overwhelmingly opposed to it. They couldn't tell us why they had to pass it without also telling us about the attack. That's why the Kanjorski slip-up is so important in getting the truth out."
No worries. Lord Blankfein had him on the other line.
Holy smokes, no wonder everyone is on skype!
Who is Timmy's broker? That would have been my first call that morning ROFML.
I want to see the phone log within a few days before AIG was bailed out the first time (the money went out throught the back door to counterparties). You may see how much GS was involved in that decision.
the dude is gay - no booty call in sight
Not so. He did call Hillary!
And Shiela
Observation - is it not possible for you to throw in a racial slur every time you post? You degrade yourself, nephew.
since when is gay a race???
Are you seriously demanding good categorization and focus skills from a racist? I don't think you understand how racism works from a detailed perspective.
Are you seriously demanding good categorization and focus skills from a racist? I don't think you understand how racism works from a detailed perspective.
goddamn moron.
Sorry - I had dark pools racialy charged comments from last week, confused with his comments regarding "gays" this week. My bad. My intent was to draw attention to a poster on this site that routinely bashes jews, gays, etc. I am assuming that some find it offensive too. Frankly, I don't like the guy.
And Cheeky, what happened to you? I used to enjoy your musings, as I'm sure many have. But you seem to have become a distortion, like you're avatar. And btw - your racial lean hasn't gone unnoticed.
Personally, I am for free expression on this site. And I love the fact that so many on this sight are on the attack. But when the attacks turn inward toward the people who contribute to this site, well, it's kind of disturbing. And it may have a weakening effect on what many are trying to achieve on ZH?
Bottom line - be angry, but don't fuck up what's happening here by being a hater. The "bad guys" will definitely use it to their advantage.
EDIT: the comment about racial slurs was in response to dark pools.
um you have an odd imagination... every post a racial slur? probably just one, that bothered you, so you mount a crusade of false accusations
and you are an Anon which is subhuman... so add this post to your list
Hey, it only takes one comment about *how many jews can you fit in an ashtray" kind of comment before you are going to attract negative attention. And your "jokes" especially that one, don't raed like jokes. You want to be an angry dude - knock yourself out. But be prepared to marginalize yourself - which would be too bad because you do occasionaly offer valid views/opinions.
And regarding this business about someone not being of the same caliber of contributer because they don't come up with a creative name and avatar - that's funny! But you need to take that up with Tyler, Marla, and crew.
Anon may be old or uncool. All the college students know what a booty call is, in fact it is kind of a stale reference now (no offense intended, the joke is still funny with the Hillary answer). You call late at night for sex, nothing else.
NOTHING RACIAL ABOUT IT.
Read TBTF by Andrew Ross Sorkin, an eye opener even if a lot of the provided content was "for public consumption."
As for Jester...search for the name, guess whose idea it was for capital injections?
http://firedoglake.com/2010/01/17/fdl-book-salon-welcomes-andrew-ross-so...
Like a crazed chimpanzee with speed dial. Lotta blow? Xanax?
Need the prescription pad.
Cheers to digging this data up. Something else to catch your eye this weekend:
Charlie Rose which not enough people watch because he is on PBS did an excellent interview with Prince Alwaleed($16B networth). I have known of the Prince for sometime because of his massive ownership stake in Citigroup. But most recently they purchased The Four Seasons Hotel brand along with Bill Gates. The interview is wide ranging from the Middle East, his investments, global change, China. Take a look. If you get bogged down with the Mid-East political talk Charlie draws him into, just skip ahead as there are some real insights here.
http://thegreatloanblog.com/
Mr Jumbo Mortgage
Excellent source of information. Journalism with integrity. PBS
The head of the lamestream propaganda arm himself, Jeff Immelt. Robert Rubin, the angew of death to all he touches.
lest you forget, remember who appointed Timmay, nominated Benny, sought counsel from Rubin and accepted tens of millions from Immelt and his surrogates
I am just a beaver licking reject from the puppy mill. My brain is a V-8 running on two cylinders. I either kill it or eat it. On rare occasions both. Even I would know not to answer the phone at a time like this. A call from an idiot who is subject FOIA.
From the log, you don't know if the call was answered. No? Just that the call was made.
That might explain all the rapid fire calling - someone who is calling a new person every minute or two is someone who is hearing a lot of ringtone and nothing else. Or maybe dialtone if they were hanging up on him.
There's going to have to be a major terrorist attack somewhere to get the focus off the Banksters, force Bernanke's confirmation, and take the blame for a "flight to safety" rally in USD and Treasuries while the markets crash again.
Oh Hey! Britain has just hiked its terrorist threat attack level to "Severe"! At least they've figured out how the game is played.
common people dont be hard on little Timmy....he is working so hard...with exception of Benny of course!
First reaction? He has the potential to be a fine telemarketer. I'd like to see a few more calls on the busy days, but considering he was connecting 55-60 calls during the day shows promise.
I'm thinking Porn Club Memberships or Cemetary plots.
Think. This is TTT we are taalking about. A lifetime .gov worker. No promise shown whatsoever. 50+ connections is way way way over his paygrade. This must be a lie.
...unexpectedly...
lmao....telemarketer...
I suggest TD creates a heatmap based on the the highest number of calls from one individual. (most at stake) Next put a waiting on it based on the last calls arrived.(urgency). At first glance, it appears some of the merchant banks are "in" on it. The general trend through the crisis was merchant gobbles up retail bank. The one exception was the Thain/Merill deal. It was really Merrill buying Bank of America. That's why Thains name is on the list. Also, just by the sheer size of the losses at Citi; makes me believe that they were walked into the lions mouth, possiblely by Rubin. JP Morgan, barclays, GS are all difinitrely members of the club. Black Rock and Pimpvo are diffentely the chop shops. This of course is all my first take on the subject on the matter sittin at a bar on my iPhone. I 'll investigate the matter more when I get some time and post at www.WallStOnion.blogspot.com. In regards to the Fed, we have to wait 2 Fu$king years to see the "transperancy".
the comments on this board get worse every week
Can they come up with everybody on the list logs for the same time? Might be a big circle jerk.
How did he make time run backwards?
They worked from nine a.m. to three a.m. the next morning.
....
TD, I think I figured it out. Everything happened before 7am!! That's it. All the calls that happen before 7am are the players that are in on the conspiracy. That's why you see paulson, blankfein, dimon, bernake all making their calls before 7am. The calls made during the day are by non club players, adding to the confusion.
Patrick the Painter,
Denver, CO
Now that my marijuna plantation is up and running I will not be posting as often. When I do, it will be at WallStOnion.blogspot.com
I will try to infuse some comic relief into this financial crisis.
Tyler/Marla - possible interesting topics for discussion - were the HFT reversion algos switched off today to panic the Senate to confirm Bernanke? Why did Goldman shutter its flagship hedge fund a year after propping it up, even after years of mediocre returns? Has the capital market totally devolved into sword of Damocles swaying over our collective throats to insure the needs of the banksers, politicos and the elites? How can Vocklerism be practical with +1 trillion $ of net new Treasury funding this year?
Tell me where he's wrong??
Goldman Sachs -the center of gravity-must be broken up!
http://inpoints.blogspot.com/2010/01/fear-itself-blocking-symbols-center...
Pete Peterson and his bought off stooge David Walker are NWO/CFR types as most all on the lists, but he' bigtime power even over HRC.
Few on the list shouldn't be in jail for conspiring treason against the taxpayer.
I've found these very illuminating indeed, all free and mostly disgusting, but what govt least wants us to know that is imperative we do for freedom, whats left of it, to survive and maybe improve the wiser to their crap we get:
20th Century Democide
http://hawaii.edu/powerkills/20TH.HTM
The Merchants of Death
http://yamaguchy.netfirms.com/7897401/merchants/merchant_list.html
The US Constitution
http://mises.org/media/976
The Rise of the Nation-State
http://mises.org/media/972
David Hume on Colonial Secession
http://mises.org/media/2936
Constitution: Four Disputed Clauses
http://mises.org/media/1836
The Hard Money Issue in American Political History
http://mises.org/media/2844
What has Governmennt Done to Our Money?
http://mises.org/media.aspx?action=search&q=what has government done to our money
The History of the House of Rothschild
http://www.erichufschmid.net/TFC/Rothschild-timeline-revised-excerpt.html
Gold and Economic Freedom (Greenspans 1967 essay-A+++)
http://www.usagold.com/gildedopinion/greenspan.html
Democracy: the God that Failed
http://mises.org/media/1099
The Fed and the Power Eilte
http://mises.org/media/2787?silverlight=0
Introduction to the Financial Elite
http://thehiddenevil.com/introduction.asp
Why did America get into World War I?
http://www.mises.org/mp3/rothspeak/ww1Morgan.mp3
Peace in the Middle East: Empire, Oil, and the Reshaping of the Middle East After World War I
http://mises.org/multimedia/mp3/ASC2009/ASC09_Tooley.mp3
A Century of War
http://mises.org/MultiMedia/mp3/20thCentury/10_20th_Denson.mp3
War and Inflation: The Monetary Process and Implications
http://mises.org/multimedia/mp3/misescircle-ny06/Salerno.mp3
The Song that Is Irresistible: How the State Leads People to Their Own Destruction
http://mises.org/multimedia/mp3/25thNYC/03-Higgs.mp3
Six Months that Changed the World
http://mises.org/multimedia/mp3/bb05/Denson-07-20-2005.mp3
Roosevelt's WWII Policies of Unconditional Surrender and the Morgenthau Plan
http://mises.org/mp3/ss03/Denson.mp3
World War I: A Failure of State Elites
http://mises.org/multimedia/mp3/MU2005/mu05-Raico4.mp3
Lincoln's Tariff War
http://mises.org/MultiMedia/mp3/tax/DiLorenzo2.mp3
Teddy Roosevelt and the Origins of the Modern Welfare-Warfare State
http://mises.org/mp3/Pres/Pres9.mp3
The Warren Commision: A Rothbardian Analysis
http://mises.org/mp3/Pres/Pres3b.mp3
The Spanish-American War as Trial Run
http://mises.org/mp3/War/War12a.mp3
The Old Breed and the Costs of War
http://mises.org/mp3/War/War7a.mp3
Historians and the Welfare-Warfare State
http://mises.org/mp3/HofL-2001/Hist30.mp3
World War I as the End of Civilization
http://mises.org/mp3/War/War8a.mp3
Two Just Wars: 1776 and 1861
http://mises.org/multimedia/mp3/War/War4.mp3
Origins of War: Civil War and World War I
http://mises.org/mp3/HofL-2001/Hist27.mp3
The Creature from Jekyll Island a Second Look at the Federal Reserve by Ed Griffin
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=F3TAh1gy6rc&feature=related
Still Don't Believe In The New World Order?
http://www.svpvril.com/nwo.html
A CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORY OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER
http://www.crossroad.to/Excerpts/chronologies/cuddy-nwo.htm
Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard66.html
Big Business and the Rise of American Statism
http://praxeology.net/RC-BRS.htm
The Great Depression, World War II, and American Prosperity, Part I (video)
http://mises.org/multimedia/video/Woods/Woods5.wmv
The Great Depression, World War II, and American Prosperity, Part II (video)
http://mises.org/multimedia/video/Woods/Woods6.wmv
Despotism Loves Company: The Story of Roosevelt and Stalin by Soviet defector Yuri Maltsev
http://mises.org/mp3/Pres/Pres8b.mp3
The Economics of the New Deal and World War II
http://mises.org/multimedia/mp3/Woods2/12.mp3
I think there is one more important piece of information to track. Who originated the call ? Who called Who first ?
Are we a bunch of losers if we're not on that list?
Psychos R' Us short list.
Charlie Schwab 10/27/08 RFLMAO
Talk to Chuck!
He knows what the F uv$k Is Up
this is fun connecting all of these dots.
on 10.20 he speaks to Frank Brosens, ex Goldman, who runs Taconic Capital (you know the guy who was supposed to get neel kashkari"s job but begged off) and Paul Tudor Jones. Now why would he be calling hedgies?
ZH -
I am an curious as to the average call time. Were these a series of 5 min spontaneous calls, or were these thought out and well defined conversations.
Just wondering if these calls were 1-3 minute nipple jerkers with my money, or if someone was actually thinking before they talked about where my money was going.
-Curious Tax Payer
many of the people with whom tax cheater conversed are officials of federal reserve system banks....so casting aspersions and insinuations is an ill-conceived game...
I read the Hilary Clinton call to be a Sec State consultation before the call to Japan.
Hill was senator from NY at the time, not sec of state. Unless timmay is the new kreskin.
Dan Jester made his name taking the opposite side to Nick Leeson in the 90s. He was one of the youngest to make partner.
Kind of funny that GS top markets guy is helping to coordinate US policy. Gives GS quite a dose of insider information in all of their transactions end of 2008/start of 2009. No wonder they had a blow out year. The entire management committee should be put in jail.
lol, we all se it differently
my take away, well on that day, I'm at my screen with alot of WTF's going on in my head, anyone with a scintilla of brains now this is big and not good, and it's not who he calls, jeeze, of course he called them they are his regular biz contacts, to me it's who doesn't call or ask questions:
a. whitehouse
b. governors
c. sec/fdic captains etc.
d. congressional and seante big wiggers
if some two bit stock jockey like me, knew it was big, and none of these folks u know we are doomed, due to the fact, it's is factually true, they are clueless
jeff inmelt multiple times, so cnbs could spin the news
Sure looks like he's calling the squid and others to get their stories straight or something, then thinking about it for 10 minutes, then calling sheila bair. Then calling the other guys back....going...hey the gov said......and continue. Doesn't mean much by itself, but it looks like he was the middleman for the business interests, and sheila bair was on the other end. (at least the first round of calls or so)
Until everyone stops participating in the money machine, the problem will never go away.
Don't spend except for necessities.
Don't borrow.
Park all your money in assets, invest in an American farmer, buy seed, buckets, hoes, diesel & gas tanks, fill them up, tractors, farm equipment, grain mill, community canneries, cisterns, lime & fertilizer or invest in American clothing manufacturing. When China stops shipping, we will be dressed in rags.
Spend all your money on assets before a dollar devaluation. But only spend it on assets that will contribute to survival of the everyday man.
If you aren't part of the solution, YOU are part of the problem.
104 comments so far, but noone seems to have actually opened the attachment to take a look for themselves.
Maybe it is my English that is off track, but I understand the headline "CALLER" as an indicator that this is a list of INBOUND calls.
Since everybody here instantly assumes, that Mr. Geithner has had a serial spastic attack on his touchstone telephone, based on the introduction above, I can only conclude that commentators are getting sloppy with their evaluation of the presented material.
This appears to be correct and I also overlooked this thinking that is was some type of strange classification system instead of the more obvious inbound call list. When one cross references the "Call List" with TFG's calendar (which was subject to a FOIA release from The New York Times) one can see instances when he is already on a scheduled conference call and calls come in and someone else takes and/or responds to those calls. Also, in the calendar one can see that there were calls to discuss market conditions and it would make sense for market participants to call him and give him color on what was going on.
http://documents.nytimes.com/geithner-schedule-new-york-fed
Dow 30:
9/15/08 -500
9/16 +140
9/17 -450
9/18 +410
9/19 +370
It would be interesting to plot calls versus stock prices during the day 9/17 and 9/18. But I'm not that interested to do it.
At the time, I wrote that I thought there were alot of people with bad cases of the runs in NY, which is what happens when you lose control and the financial system begins to implode. The number of calls and the brevity reflects the seriousness of the situation and the panic at the time, at least to me. I would be more concerned if there were only a limited number of calls during the week of 9/15.
New Transparency Rule: All incoming/outgoing phone calls(including cellular), emails, and text messages between any Federal Reserve employee and employees of private corporations must be recorded and made available to the public within one year. This will give the attorney general ample time to file relevant charges before any statute of limitations period passes.
Why is Paul Volcker's name on that list? At the time, he was an "advisor" to candidate Obama. I'd like to see an overlay of campaign contributions to the various candidates by every member on the list. I'd like to see the contents of the logs going back a month.
Me thinks Paul Volcker is the don of the Group of 30.
+11
He does like to play goodguy hehe.
Very great discussion here indeed. I have read all other people opinions and I wanted to add something. Well, I'm missing the part where Volker was promoted to deity status.
Also I am missing the part where even economists at conservative think-tanks agree that Obama's handling of the economic crisis saved us from GOP and Bush-induced disaster. Other information is good I think. Thanks a lot for the publication. Regards, Adam from iphone application development
Many of us hoped that Obama would change things, if nothing else, transparency would be the order of the day, or so he said. He may be able to cop that he inherited a corrupt financial market, but by his actions, or inaction, it's clear that he has no intention of delivering on his promise. If anything, the message from his administration has been that he's going to continue to protect the people who made these deals and all who benefitted from them. Dark pools are still in operation, naked shorting continues to occur as a matter of course, insider trading, market manipulation, the inflation of commodities continue unimpeded and almost without comment. The lack of transparency and reliance on the shield of government confidentiality will be our undoing. Sooner or later, the top-heavy nature of our markets will fall on itself so hard, no efforts to reinforce it will be mighty enough. Then, the folks who have failed to demand accountability from our government will pay, large. Regards, Allie from iPhone development