naked capitalism

Anonymous says:

No good Yves. You get a -3 on a scale from 1 to 10.

Keep the fuzzy animal assembly line going. Violence BY fuzzy animals against humans is acceptable.

doc holiday says:

1. WASHINGTON, Sept 27 (Reuters) – Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives are pushing for a new Wall Street tax that would cover the potential costs of a $700 billion bailout being negotiated by Congress and the Bush administration.

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, speaking to reporters after a meeting with fellow Democrats, said the fee could be assessed after five years if the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office determined taxpayers had lost money in the bailout.

“If after five years … the CBO decides that the American taxpayer has lost money in this, then there would be a fee on financial institutions,” Pelosi said, adding that she hoped the provision could be part of a final bailout deal.

Pelosi said that the Secretary of the Treasury could determine how to assess the fee.

2. ABC News’ Tahman Bradley and Arnab Datta Report: Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., on Sunday described Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson’s request for billion of dollars to buy debt from struggling Wall Street financial firms as “un-American” and said the secretary should have stepped down.

Gingrich even expressed concern with Paulson’s connections to Wall Street. The treasury secretary served as the chairman of a major global investment banking and securities firm before joining the Bush administration.

“You have the former Chairman of Goldman Sachs asking for 700 billion dollars, and in his initial request, asking for it in such an un-American way that I think he should have resigned,” said Gingrich. “I think Paulson has terminally misunderstood the nature of the American system. Not just no review, no judicial review, no congressional accountability. Give me 700 billion dollars, 700 BILLION dollars! ‘I’ll be glad to spend it for you.’ That’s a centralization of power that is totally un-American.”

Early Sunday, congressional leaders and the Bush administration reached a tentative agreement on the $700 billion Wall Street bailout proposal. The bill is expected to come up for a vote in the House on Monday.

Gingrich, who made his remarks on the “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” roundtable conceded that he would probably end up reluctantly voting for the plan because Congress was given no choice

doc holiday says:

If Bush is to save America he needs to take control and fire Paulson today!

EGISLATIVE PROPOSAL FOR TREASURY AUTHORITY
TO PURCHASE TROUBLED ASSETS

http://downloads.newsok.com/docu…/ s28bailout.pdf

Sec. 8. Review.

Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are
non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be
reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency.

>> This is absurd to have this level of abuse and to allow a person like Paulson to destroy America. Where is there any outrage or concern? Where are the representatives that will grant this power???