
and the U. S. Treasury
| Congressman Kevin Brady -- November 19, 2009 Treasury huckster Geithner asked to quit Rep. Brady asks Treasury Secretary and tax cheat Timothy Geithner to step down at hearing. |
| Dr. Paul Craig Roberts -- VDare.com -- October 26, 2009 Are you ready for the next crisis? Evidence that the US is a failed state is piling up faster than I can record it. -- One conclusive hallmark of a failed state is that the crooks are inside the government, using government to protect and to advance their private interests... [Related video interview with Max Keiser today] [See Obama Watch] |
| Paul Craig Roberts -- VDare.com -- October 16, 2009 The rich have stolen the economy Bloomberg reports that Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's closest aides earned millions of dollars a year working for Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and other Wall Street firms. Bloomberg reports that none of these aides faced Senate confirmation. Yet, they are overseeing the handout of hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayer funds to their former employers.... [See Obama Watch and Audit the Fed ] |
| Michelle Malkin -- October 14, 2009 Obama's Treasury money men: "Counselor" is the new czar If you read Chapter 6 of Culture of Corruption, you know all about President Obama's Wall Street money men who look an awful like President Bush's bailout-happy money men from the world of Government Sachs and CITI. I’ll include an excerpt below.... |
| Simon Johnson -- The Daily Beast -- October 10, 2009 Timmy's telephone travesty New revelations about Tim Geithner's phone records show an appallingly small Wall Street circle. With a probe likely, Simon Johnson says the Treasury secretary needs a bailout -- from Larry Summers. -- Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner faces a major public-relations problem. His phone records and broader calendar... |
| Prison Planet -- Austin, Texas -- August 25, 2009 Geithner: Auditing the Fed is a "line that we don't want to cross" In an interview released today by Digg and the Wall Street Journal, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner was pressured about the growing popular movement to Audit the Fed spearheaded by Texas Congressman Ron Paul. A visibly uncomfortable Geithner attempts to dismiss the question by stating "I'm sure people understand that you want to keep politics out of monetary policy." [See Audit the Fed] |
| Glenn Hall -- The Street -- Washington -- August 4, 2009 Today's Outrage: "Shifty Tim" Geithner goes ballistic Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner lost his cool with fellow regulators who aren't marching to the administration's beat on financial reforms. -- Geithner reportedly launched an all-out cussing tirade Friday in a meeting with Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro and FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair... [Related WSJ item] [See Audit the Fed] |
| This Week with George Stephanopoulos -- August 2, 2009 Geithner won’t rule out new taxes for middle class To get the economy back on track, will President Barack Obama have to break his pledge not to raise taxes on 95 percent of Americans? In a "This Week" exclusive, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner told me, "We’re going to have to do what’s necessary." [See Obama Watch] |
| Daily Finance -- August 2, 2009 After $182 billion taxpayer rescue, is AIG on the verge of collapse? You may remember American International Group (AIG). The U.S. government gave it $182 billion of taxpayer money last fall in exchange for a 78 percent stake. Of that money, $165 million went for bonuses to a handful of people in its Financial Products Group (FPG), which sold Credit Default Swaps (CDSs)... [See Obama Watch] |
| Frank Salvato -- Family Security Matters -- July 25, 2009 A government run by Mrs. Kravitz ...President Obama, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner coerce many of the nation's largest and most influential banking and financial institutions into ceding control and financially ingratiating their privately held companies to the government under the notion that government knows best how to fix the economy... |
| Prison Planet -- Austin, Texas -- July 21, 2009 Cost of bailout hits a whopping $24 trillion dollars According to the watchdog overseeing the federal government’s financial bailout program, the full exposure since 2007 amounts to a whopping $23.7 trillion dollars, or $80,000 for every American citizen. -- The last time we were able to get a measure of the total cost of the bailout, it stood at around $8.5 trillion dollars. Eight months down the line and that figure has almost tripled... [See Obama Watch] |
| London Telegraph -- July 6, 2009 US lurching towards 'debt explosion' In a 2003 paper, Thomas Laubach, the US Federal Reserve’s senior economist, calculated the impact on long-term interest rates of rising fiscal deficits and soaring national debt. Applying his assumptions to the recent spike in the US fiscal deficit and national debt, long-term interests rates will double from their current 3.5pc... [See Obama Watch] |
| Fox News -- June 21, 2009 Judge Napolitano on Obama's ourageous Federal Reserve scheme ...The essence of the proposal is to give the Federal Reserve -- authority to regulate any aspect of any firms that and it's discretion. Its sole discretion. Could adversely affect the economy if they -- The Fed would thus be the only unregulated private entity on the planet. This private super secret bank... [See Obama Watch] [This show aired 6.19.09] |
| Paul Craig Roberts -- VDare.com -- June 4, 2009 Why the Chinese laughed at Geithner If a person lives long enough, he can watch everyone forget everything they learned. -- Everyone includes Federal Reserve Chairmen, economists, Bank of America "strategists," and even Bloomberg.com. -- Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke thinks he can hold down US long-term interest rates.... |
| Infowars.com -- May 14, 2009 Geithner to take orders from global elite At Bilderberg According to a London Times report, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner will probably be in attendance at this week's Bilderberg Group meeting, as top globalists meet to plot the financial future of the planet behind closed doors. -- The Times article notes that "US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner's public schedule is mysteriously empty for the next two days..." |
| Robert M. Engstrom -- Human Events - Washington -- April 28, 2009 Radicals run Obamaland Not surprisingly, Barack Obama, who was the most liberal member of the last Senate, is now filling his administration with dozens of liberal activists, many of whom have been associated with left-wing policies and organizations. Here, in alphabetical order, is a sampling of the most egregious, so far.... [Includes Solis, Geithner, Emanuel, Hillary, Napolitano, other menaces] |
| John Armor -- Family Security Matters -- April 21, 2009 sc Want to know how this administration is subverting the Constitution? Read this... The Treasury Department announced yesterday that it would "convert its preferred stock in the nation's largest banks into common stock." The stated advantages were that this would allow Treasury to aid more banks without going back to Congress for more money than what was already approved. Some Administration officials even said that this would "get around Congress." [See Obama Watch] |
| Pepe Escobar -- Real News Network -- April 14, 2009 Welcome to the new "New World Order" This video gives the viewer an idea of just what is happening with this deliberate global finance meltdown caused in part by suspected crooks such as Tim Geithner, Hank Paulson, Alan Greenspan, and their puppet masters. Runs just over 12 minutes (9 minutes devoted to the NWO issue). [See Obama Watch] |
| Jeffrey Sachs -- Huffington Post -- April 9, 2009 The Geithner-Summers scheme is even worse than thought Two weeks ago, I posted an article showing how the Geithner-Summers banking plan could potentially and unnecessarily transfer hundreds of billions of dollars of wealth from taxpayers to banks. The same basic arithmetic was later described by Joseph Stiglitz in the New York Times.... |
| Bill Moyers -- PBS -- April 6, 2009 Wall Street meltdown the result of massive fraud by top elites For months now, revelations of the wholesale greed and blatant transgressions of Wall Street have reminded us that "The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One." In fact, the man you're about to meet wrote a book with just that title. It was based upon his experience as a tough regulator... [See Obama Watch] |
| Raw Story -- April 5, 2009 US collapse driven by 'fraud'; Geithner covering up bank insolvency In an explosive interview on PBS' Bill Moyers Journal, William K. Black, a professor of economics and law with the University of Missouri, alleged that American banks and credit agencies conspired to create a system in which so-called "liars loans" could receive AAA ratings and zero oversight, amounting to a massive "fraud" at the epicenter of US finance.... [See Obama Watch] [See NWO Treason Watch] |
| Old Thinker News -- April 3, 2009 Treason Alert: CFR unveils global governance agenda ...Globalist forces are hard at work in the economic and political realms in an attempt to shape the future of the world, furthering the dominance of the global elite. Calls for a global currency in response to the economic crisis are regularly occurring, drawing the tacit support of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, speaking to the CFR... |
| Phyllis Schlafly -- Human Events -- March 31, 2009 Will the real Tim Geithner please stand up? Does Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner favor replacing the U.S. dollar with a global currency or doesn't he? Or, as Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., pointedly asked on Sean Hannity's program, "Which Tim Geithner do we believe?" -- Let's review the soundbites of the week of March 23... |
| Ben Smith -- Politico -- March 26, 2009 Geithner comment causes dollar drop I noted earlier that Tim Geithner had been surprisingly sanguine about a new world currency, and had to be pulled back onto his tightrope by former Clinton Treasury official Roger Altman. -- Currency traders noticed too: The dollar fell on his initial remarks, though it recovered a bit after Altman steered him back on message... |
| Reuters -- March 24, 2009 Geithner nonbank plan a power grab U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's request for government authority to wind down failing non-bank financial firms is an unprecedented power grab, House Minority Leader John Boehner said on Tuesday. -- "This is an unprecedented grab of power, and before that occurs, there ought to be a real debate about whether we should give that authority to the Treasury Secretary..." |
| EarthFrisk Blog -- March 24, 2009 Watch this video and tell everyone now! Watch this video now with Glenn Beck. Your life literally depends on this as now it is mere months not years before Obama must outlaw guns and the Bill of Rights. In so doing he will plunge America into a real Revolution. You can read about the news on page 20 in your newspaper, or hidden where the sun doesn't shine.... |
| We Get E-Mail -- March 23, 2009 Who is Timothy Geithner? ...Who is Geithner? He is a creature of the eastern banking establishment and ruling class through and through. His résumé nicely matches his actions in handing out government money and guarantees to the "right people." Geithner's father Peter is director of the Asia program at the Ford Foundation, a New World Order operation... |
| American Patrol Report -- March 23, 2009 Geithner - Ford Foundation link Secretary of the Treasury Geithner's father, Peter Geithner, was with the Ford Foundation for 28 years. The Ford Foundation created the National Council of La Raza and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund. Any guesses as to how he will treat the funding for illegal aliens? |