Henry M. Paulson

Feel the Rage All Over Again With Financial Disaster Doc Inside Job

Bloomberg Foundation Looks a Lot Like Bloomy for Prez Committee

​Mayor Bloomberg unveiled the new board for his multibillion-dollar foundation yesterday and it looks a lot like a potential Bloomberg for President advisory board. For Republicans down in Florida, there's a Bush (Jeb) and a Cuban-American (Miami mayor Manny Diaz). For right-wing Dems, he's got th ... More >>

Ben Bernanke Named Time Man of the Year, in Honor of Achievements TBD

​"Ben Bernanke is a nerd," says Time magazine. "He just happens to be the most powerful nerd on the planet," and thus the 2009 Man of the Year "Those green bills featuring dead Presidents," Time informs us, "are labeled federal reserve note for a reason: the Fed controls the money supply." As ... More >>

We've Bailed out the Banks. When Do We Go After the Crooks Behind our Financial Collapse?

​"Ben Bernanke is a nerd," says Time magazine. "He just happens to be the most powerful nerd on the planet," and thus the 2009 Man of the Year "Those green bills featuring dead Presidents," Time informs us, "are labeled federal reserve note for a reason: the Fed controls the money supply." As ... More >>

American Casino Snipes at America's Subprime Bloodsuckers with TV-Blandness

​"Ben Bernanke is a nerd," says Time magazine. "He just happens to be the most powerful nerd on the planet," and thus the 2009 Man of the Year "Those green bills featuring dead Presidents," Time informs us, "are labeled federal reserve note for a reason: the Fed controls the money supply." As ... More >>

Gucci Mane Has Ice To Spare

Fuck mortgage-backed securities, default credit swaps, AIG, Fanny Mae, Freddy Mac, Alan Greenspan, George W. Bush, Citigroup, Chrysler, Washington Mutual, Bernie Madoff, Sir Allen Stanford, Henry Paulson, Timothy Geithner, suicide loans, TARP, GM, Wells Fargo, Jerome Kerviel, al-Qaeda, Iran, Osama b ... More >>

How Rightbloggers Made "Fascist" the New "Socialist"

Rightbloggers talked a lot over the past eight years about Bush Derangement Syndrome, liberal sufferers of which thought Bush engaged in a totalitarian overthrow of our liberties. One of the symptoms was calling the President a fascist. "A strong word to fling about," warned The Anchoress, who not ... More >>

Some New York Tea Party Protesters Want Government Investment, Re-Regulation

As we said, the dozen-plus protesters in Bowling Green today -- while less numerous than the previous New York tea-party's speakers, who called Obama a socialist and compared him to Hitler -- were a little more down-to-earth. There was a guy in a grey suit and shades who talked about commodity mon ... More >>

Voices in the wilderness: Bill Moyers and Simon Johnson take on 'American oligarchs'

Lost in the babble about the Wall Street rubble was last week's provocative piece on Bill Moyers Journal. Beyond its hackneyed title, "Following the Money," it gets to the heart of the global financial meltdown (video, transcript). Last night's Frontline episode, "Inside the Meltdown," was an int ... More >>

The stadium-naming deal? Make Citigroup and the New York Mets bail the public out for a change.

In what's obviously a P.R. move, Citigroup says it's looking into pulling out of a $400 million marketing deal with the New York Mets. Here's the current situation: Citigroup is supposedly on the hook to pay $400 million to the Mets for the naming rights to the unwarranted new stadium. Meanwhile, ... More >>

What Cooked the World's Economy?

It wasn't your overdue mortgage.

Barack Obama's roadblocked info highway

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American kids' college plans face auto-destruct

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Godfather Paulson's bailout plan: It's not personal. It's strictly business.

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Daily Flog: For the recession, some remedial English lessons

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Credit Crisis: The Story So Far

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What's Behind Mort Zuckerman's Citigroup Crush?

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Daily Flog: Feds bail out Citibank, automakers. You're still at the end of the bread lines.

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It's not a wonderful life

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Henry Paulson ends bailouts, saying, 'Mission accomplished!'

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Shelved in fiction: 'Henry Paulson and the Toxic Assets'

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Daily Flog: Saudia Arabia bails out homeowners while we still haven't

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Daily Flog: It's so bad that capitalists plan to help proles

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Dead presidents in Africa and on Wall Street

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Daily Flog: Wall Street down the drain; White House plumber summoned

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Daily Flog: Banks. You're welcome.

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Krugman called it: 'Heads they win, tails we lose'

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Passing the bucks

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Daily Flog: Frantic banks make a run on us; automakers drive up to Treasury's ATM

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Release the news hounds!

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Shock and awe: Pentagon rejects 'Bush Doctrine'

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Daily Flog: California, here we go; crisis also sweeps through Asia

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Fuld: 'I feel horrible about what happened'

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Rich Guy Backs Other Rich Guy

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Daily Flog: America's King Henry; money bailout for Wall Street but no bailout from Mets' bullpen

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House rejects bailout; Dow plummets

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Lede of the Week

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Daily Flog: Panic spreads to McCain; White House meeting will solve everything; the world sneers

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Daily Flog: Race colored; Wall Street red-faced; Bloomberg white-knighted; future black

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Krauts Sour on Wall Street Bailout

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Bush Bailout? Rightbloggers Say OK -- Fight Hackers, Sandra Bernhard Instead!

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Daily Flog: In NYC, the end of the houses that Ruth and ruthlessness built

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Mayor On MTP: Taxes to Preserve Our "Future"

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Times: Mayor Talked to Wall St. VIPs, Is "Elder Statesman"

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Wall Street Humor

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Daily Flog: Wall Street's broken brokers go for broke; McCain's lie is buried by meltdown news

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Daily Flog: 'No one convicted!'; nationwide search for Obama's mojo; McCain wallows in blood of Christ

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Daily Flog: Bailing out the planet's investors; a swift boot to Olbermann

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Who's Next at the World Bank?

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Going, Going Goniffs: Wolfowitz, Gonzales Get Fragged

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