Entries by Dr. Pitchfork (134)
Apr 26, 2013 at 9:24 AM
BUSTED: Watch TARP Republican Paul Ryan Begging Congress To Vote For The Bailout
"My fellow colleagues, we've heard a lot of nonsense and nay-saying this morning, some of it hard to believe, but the pile of bullshit I'm about to deliver, is going to be massive."
"Obamacare Will Kill 800,000 Jobs": CBO Chief Testifies To Congress (VIDEO)
Video - CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf before Congress - Feb. 10, 2011
Keep in mind as you watch that CBO is an independent arm of Congress that is without political affiliation. They work with numbers and facts, not spin.
Janet Tavakoli On Warren Buffett's Love For Bailouts
By Janet Tavakoli
Fed Economists Gara Afonso and Anna Kovner with MIT finance professor Antoinette Schoar offer new evidence suggesting that although credit terms were tougher for large underperforming banks in the two days after Lehman's bankruptcy, the much-hyped market "freeze" was a myth.
Thomas Paine, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, urged Colonists not to trust the words of "interested men" tied by money and status to British royalty.
Today's interested men defend the bailouts and subsequent absence of felony indictments.
Inside Job Wins The Oscar: "Not A Single Financial Executive Has Gone To Jail, And That's Wrong"
Video - Inside Job director, Charles Ferguson, at the Oscars - Feb. 27, 2011.