I’ve just finished reading the key points to Senator Chris Dodd’s alternative to the bail out plan and I have to say I agree with the folks like Paul Krugman who are saying this is more like it — it’s a “step in the right direction.” The thing is, as Krugman points out: Paulson displayed a lot of arrogance here — he basically marched in and said Daddy knows best, don’t worry your pretty little heads about the details....
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McCain Aide Schmidt Blasts New York Times on Conference Call and Gets Smacked Down
McCain aide Rick Davis wasn’t too happy today about being called out by the NY Times, on his ties to Fannie & Freddie and particularly the role he “played in helping Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac beat back regulatory challenges when he served as president of their advocacy group, the Homeownership Alliance, formed in the summer of 2000.” Davis and fellow McCain aide Steve Schmidt took out their frustrations on the NY Times on a conference today: Marc Ambinder...
About That Blank Check
I spent the weekend preparing for my move cross country, which I have been alluding to here for a while. I will finally be posting about it later this week. What I can tell readers now, is that the planned move has arisen out of the financial crisis our country is in. As I noted here last Monday when the news started emerging on how deep the crisis is, as a “small business owner, I’ve watched my sales slide...
Ten Post Round-Up
Two good things about Fall: 1) fashionable clothes that don’t require the revealing of copious amounts of skin and 2) only a few more weeks left in this election cycle. Thankfully, I have the first one sewn up, easily, since Fall fashions favor big girls, like me. But, this continuing election cycle is getting on my last nerve. Now, with the economy in full-blown crisis mode, the yammering from both sides of the political spectrum is really making me...
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