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GE’s Terrible Jeff Immelt Self-Servingly Lauds Cap-and-Tax
General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt, a left-wing panderer who has presided over his company’s decline in recent years, says the economy-killing cap-and-trade system of trading emission permits is the best…
by Matthew Vadum on May 21, 2009

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Bank Bailout Chief Gelded
Neel Kashkari, the holdover from the Bush administration who is running the Wall Street bailout program (TARP), is unable to be effective in his job because it’s known that…
by Matthew Vadum on March 6, 2009

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Carbon Trading Markets Collapse
As policymakers here in America ponder adopting a disastrous so-called cap-and-trade system that will do little but fatten the wallets of Goldman Sachs, Hot Air reports that carbon trading markets…
by Matthew Vadum on February 25, 2009

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Goldman Sachs Plugged in at Geithner’s Treasury
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has made former Goldman Sachs lobbyist Mark Patterson his chief of staff. From a report in the D.C. Examiner: The selection is at least the…
by Matthew Vadum on January 29, 2009

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Taxpayer Subsidized Lobbying.
Who said this? “Nobody mentioned that you are giving up your Constitutional right to petition the government” when you accept federal tax dollars. Nan Aron? Independent Sector? Nope. It’s Edward Yingling, president…
by Robert Huberty on January 28, 2009

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Hurricane Hank to Strike D.C. One More Time
With just 11 days remaining in the awful Bush administration, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is moving forward with plans to access the second $350 billion installment of the $700 billion…
by Matthew Vadum on January 9, 2009

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How to Spend $178 Billion in 86 Days
I just went to the Brookings Institution to hear Treasury assistant secretary Neel Kashkari describe his success in organizing the federal government’s bailout program, otherwise known as the Troubled…
by Robert Huberty on January 8, 2009

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Bailout Money for Goldman Sachs Bonuses
ABC News reports that Goldman Sachs, which has received $10 billion in bailout money from the U.S. Treasury, is using those taxpayer dollars to pay for employee bonuses. Here is…
by Matthew Vadum on December 18, 2008

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A Favor to Goldman Sachs?
How come the Federal Reserve and Treasury Department let the investment bank Lehman Brothers fail last September but gave the insurance company A.I.G. $85…
by Robert Huberty on December 16, 2008

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No Longer Master of the Universe
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson’s flip-flop over how the Bush Administration will use the $700 billion it requested from Congress has hurt his reputation, frightened the stock market, and…
by Robert Huberty on November 13, 2008