I’m pushing hard now to finalise a draft of my book-in-progress, It’s currently titled Zombie Economics:Undead Ideas that Threaten the World Economy. Full Article at Crooked Timber

2009 isn't quite over yet, but we're pretty sure most automakers would rather forget that it ever happened. Full Article at AutoblogGreen

A lawyer for the U.S. Treasury department said Wednesday that the U.S. will lose $30 billion of the $82 billion bailout investment it made in the auto industry. Full Article at International Business Times

The advisers include Gene Sperling, who last year took in $887,727 from Goldman Sachs and $158,000 for speeches mostly to financial companies, including the firm run by accused Ponzi scheme mastermind R. Allen Stanford. Full Article at Huffington Post

Small-business groups are lobbying Congress to allow firms with as many as 100 employees to buy health insurance through new exchanges that would be created through health care reform legislation. Full Article at Wichita Business Journal

The G-20 finance ministers meet in Scotland on November 6th and 7th, and they will all be bleating about the fall in the dollar. France started this week, and the others will follow. Their currencies are rising in value and they do not like it. Full Article at Global Research

WASHINGTON - A key Treasury official on Friday told a gathering of community activists that he was open to suggestions about how to improve a White House initiative announced earlier this week that seeks to spur lending to small community banks and... Full Article at FOX Business

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - A key Treasury official on Friday told a gathering of community activists that he was open to suggestions about how to improve a White House initiative announced earlier this week that seeks to spur lending to small community... Full Article at MarketWatch

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury Department is considering ways to provide support through its bailout program to community development loan funds, a senior Treasury official said on Friday. Full Article at ABC News

Looking for a print version? Simply use your browser’s ‘Print’ command and a printer-friendly document will be generated automatically. Full Article at The Badger Herald

Some of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithners closest aides, none of whom faced Senate confirmation, earned millions of dollars a year working for Goldman Sachs Group Inc. , Citigroup Inc. and other Wall Street firms, according to financial disclosure... Full Article at Global Research

Why is there no outcry for Obama to fire guys like Gene Sperling, who was paid $887,727 by Goldman Sachs right before going into the Treasury department--where he helped give back billions to Goldman and prevented tens of billions in losses for Goldman? Full Article at Open Left

This year Sperling is among the small circle of intimate staffers advising Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner on financial bailouts and other matters. Last year in private life, Sperling was paid $887,727 by Goldman Sachs as a consultant. Full Article at The Nation

The stench emanating from inside the Beltway is enough to knock a buzzard off of a hunk of week old roadkill. Full Article at Town Hall

: Some of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithners closest aides, none of whom faced Senate confirmation, earned millions of dollars a year working for Goldman Sachs Group Inc, Citigroup Inc and other Wall Street firms, according to financial disclosure... Full Article at Expressindia.com

Oct. 14 (Bloomberg) — Some of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s closest aides, none of whom faced Senate confirmation, earned millions of dollars a year working for Goldman Sachs Group Inc. , Citigroup Inc. and other Wall Street firms, according to... Full Article at Sweetness & Light

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Well, it certainly IS a criminal enterprise. That’s for sure! The U.S. Treasury Department is the central headquarters of Wall Street, and Timmy Geithner is its demigod. Full Article at The Classic Liberal

The advisers include Gene Sperling, who last year took in $887,727 from Goldman Sachs and $158,000 for speeches mostly to financial companies, including the firm run by accused Ponzi scheme mastermind R. Allen Stanford. Full Article at Ludwig von Mises Institute

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. Full Article at Michelle Malkin