George Washington's blog
Do Summers, Geithner and Bernanke Have to Share Credit for Saving the Banks with Drug Kingpins?
Submitted by George Washington on 12/14/2009 15:00 -0500Strange bedfellows ...
Larry Summers Is Like a Guy Who Yells That the Sun Really DOES Revolve Around the Earth and that the Current Orbit is Just a Temporary Aberration . . . and That If We Just Wait a Little While, "Everything Will Return to Normal"
Submitted by George Washington on 12/14/2009 14:57 -0500Heretic! Heretic!
House Passes Bill to Audit the Fed
Submitted by George Washington on 12/11/2009 17:43 -0500We've won round 1!
Copenhagen Framework Demands Huge Amounts of Spending, But Allows Enron-Style Accounting Tricks So That Carbon Isn't Actually Reduced
Submitted by George Washington on 12/11/2009 12:17 -0500Breathtaking ...
Are Food Stamps the Soup Lines of this Great Recession?
Submitted by George Washington on 12/10/2009 19:31 -0500No dramatic photos, but the statistics are dramatic ...
Financial Reform Is Being Gutted ... And Congress Might Not Even Realize It
Submitted by George Washington on 12/10/2009 15:24 -0500Dumb ... or complicit?
Giant Banks Are Trying to Make Bailouts Permanent. They'll Succeed Unless We Raise a Ruckus
Submitted by George Washington on 12/10/2009 12:49 -0500And they're close to succeeding ...
Volcker: Financial Innovation is Worthless, and Banks Should Be Limited to Traditional Depository Functions
Submitted by George Washington on 12/09/2009 14:50 -0500Volcker, Soros, Taleb, Krugman and many others call for old-timey banking ...
Head of California's Cap and Trade Offsets Program: Cap and Trade Won't Work for Climate, It's a Scam
Submitted by George Washington on 12/08/2009 13:49 -0500It's a scam ...
Woman Who Invented Credit Default Swaps is One of the Key Architects of Carbon Derivatives, Which Would Be at the Very CENTER of Cap and Trade
Submitted by George Washington on 12/07/2009 21:12 -0500Oh great ...
79% of Americans Want an Audit of the Fed, Only 21% are in Favor of Confirming Bernanke, and Only 20% Think Geithner is Doing a Good Job
Submitted by George Washington on 12/07/2009 02:37 -0500The economy will not recover until Ben and Tim are fired ...
Dollar Up, Gold Down ...
Submitted by George Washington on 12/05/2009 00:38 -0500Dollar up, gold down ... check.
Dollar up, Dow up ... huh?
A Cheaper and More Effective Military Strategy for Afghanistan
Submitted by George Washington on 12/04/2009 14:42 -0500Supporters of an escalation of the Afghanistan war often respond to criticism by asking "okay smart guy, what would YOU do to fight Al Qaeda in Afghanistan?"
Here's one answer ...
Prolonging the War is a "Threat to Our National Security"
Submitted by George Washington on 12/03/2009 18:47 -0500Congressman Kucinich said today:"America is in the fight of its life and that fight is not in Afghanistan -- it's here ... We are deeply in debt. Our GDP is down. Our manufacturing is down. Our savings are down. The value of the dollar is down. Our trade deficit is up. Business failures are up. Bankruptcies are up."
