Archive for January, 2010
Amateur Hour In The White House?
Has there ever been and administration as crossed and confused as this one? The Bush administration was consistently Pro business and in many respects Consistently poor!. However, the Bush administration made clear its intent to allow free markets to prevail no matter what and even if Oil hit $500 per barrel, a free market system was better then Government intervention. The Obama administration however is trying to be all things to all people.
Geithner’s New York Fed Told AIG to Limit Swaps Disclosure
an. 7 (Bloomberg) -- The Federal Reserve Bank of New York, then led by Timothy Geithner, told American International Group Inc. to withhold details from the public about the bailed-out insurer’s payments to banks during the depths of the financial crisis, e-mails between the company and its regulator show.
Lessons Learned In 2009 ?
The new Obama administration promised change and change was delivered all right. Trillions of dollars were borrowed from China in an effort to get the economy and more important the jobs created. One year later and the administration is learning the hard way what all of us in the Brokerage world already know: The Government does not create lasting jobs, the private sector does.
