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Wednesday
Oct282009

Henry Blodget: Tim Geithner Is Screwing You Again

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You remember GMAC.  Bored by the mundane world of vehicle financing, they plunged into mortgage originations only to get stomped.  They've already received $12.5 billion via TARP since December 2008 (because TARP was designed to help auto loans, remember?...or was it the toxic muffler market?), and now Tim Geithner is preparing to offload another $5 billion to the strategically important entity.

Are you kidding me?  We can't get 1 billion for updates to air-traffic control infrastructure that relies on 1950s technology, but we got $18 billion for GMAC.

That's $18 billion of borrowed bamboozle being shoveled down a rat hole.

Don't miss this one.  Blodget offers an alternative GMAC rescue plan.


Video (4:52): Henry Blodget Talks GMAC, Tim Geithner & AIG Payouts At Par

Blodget's AIG-Geithner rail is the best part and begins at the 3-minute mark.

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Reader Comments (10)

I think it's time to put Geithner, Paulson and several others where they belong--in jail!!! Why do we need representatives in Washington? They can't or will not do anything to stop this madness. I have lost a lot of faith in our government recently.

When I was in the Vietnam war I was proud of America. Our leadership in Washington needs to wake up and do what's right for America and Americans.
Oct 28, 2009 at 8:05 PM | Unregistered CommenterPapa
Josh Rosner has a great piece on TBTF posted over at The Big Picture. The big take-away:

"Those legislators who are truly seeking to protect the public interest and to be worthy of re-election, should demand that legislation spell out, in plain English, that the entire capital structure of a TBTF institution be wiped out, and its holding company held responsible as a source of strength, before taxpayers are exposed to a single dollar of loss."

To which, Barry Ritholtz adds:
"If leadership won’t add such language, call your elected official and ask how much they actually receive when they agree to put on the kneepads."
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/10/congress-and-tbtf-%e2%80%93-bring-in-the-bomb-squad/


Good on the both of them. If our other favorite bank analyst, Chris Whalen, is gregarious and provocative, Rosner is just as smart and was even more prescient in sounding the early warning alarms.
http://www.hudson.org/files/documents/Feb.15%20CDO%20Event%20Transcript.pdf
Oct 29, 2009 at 1:18 AM | Unregistered CommenterJames H
Associated Depressed...

By BEN FELLER, Associated Press Writer Ben Feller, Associated Press Writer – 1 hr 26 mins ago
DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Del. – Standing in the pre-dawn darkness, President Barack Obama saw the real cost of the war in Afghanistan: The Americans who return in flag-covered cases while much of the nation sleeps in peace.

The dramatic image of a president on the tarmac was a portrait not witnessed in years. Former President George W. Bush spent lots of time with grieving military families but never went to Dover to meet the remains coming off the cargo plane. Obama did so with the weight of knowing he may soon send more troops off to war.

With…Photo op of Obama saluting the returning coffins of our heroes. I wonder if the AP would write the same fluff piece for a Republican like McCain. Bush just met with the families in private to show his respect, how creepy.
Oct 29, 2009 at 9:50 AM | Unregistered Commentergobias
Congratulations to Henry Blodget for continuing to "tell truth to power."
Our financial emperors have been going around naked for a very long time but most people see this as a profit opportunity instead of a call to action.
Let us hope that our collective inaction and rush to the moral bottom does not end in financial and social catastrophe.
And going beyond hope, let's all get ready to do something courageous and intelligent for our country and not only for ourselves and our immediate families ... before it's too late.
Oct 29, 2009 at 10:35 AM | Unregistered CommenterJames Street
Here is how to make copies of Alex Jones "Fall of Republic" and to distribute in your own town. Wake up folks for noble cause to Save the Republic from Tyranny
http://www.thetinyspark.com/

CHART OF THE DAY: Cash-For-Clunkers MASSIVELY Distorted GDP
If anyone mentions the just-released 3.5% U.S. third quarter GDP growth, just throw this chart in their face.
http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-motor-vehicle-output-2009-10?utm_source=Triggermail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Clusterstock%20Chart%20of%20the%20Day%2C%20Thursday%2C%2010%2F29%2F09
Oct 30, 2009 at 12:16 AM | Unregistered CommenterKen
Tim Geithner, Don't You Dare Bail Out GMAC Again
http://www.businessinsider.com/henry-blodget-tim-geithner-dont-you-dare-bail-out-gmac-again-2009-10


Thanks for the Posner link, james...hadn't seen that.
Oct 30, 2009 at 5:18 AM | Registered CommenterDailyBail
Henry leaves out that the CEO from AIG, Liddy, was a former Gold Man and that the US Treasurer at that time, Paulson, was the former Gold Man CEO. Henry again forgets ot mention that a good chunk of GMAC only recently became CAPMARK after being sold to Goldman Sachs. CAPMARK is now well into bankruptcy. GMAC still owns over 20% of CAPMARK. Once again, it looks like free TARP money going to the Gold Men.
Oct 30, 2009 at 9:16 AM | Unregistered Commenterblack swan
Are You Ready For The Next Crisis? - By Paul Craig Roberts (27/10/09) PDF Print E-mail
Paul Craig Roberts
Tuesday, 27 October 2009 08:28

Information Clearing House

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.

Another conclusive hallmark is rising income inequality as the insiders manipulate economic policy for their enrichment at the expense of everyone else.

(EDITED for length)
Oct 30, 2009 at 11:01 AM | Unregistered CommenterKen
Ken, just post it once please. You are even driving me crazy now.
Oct 30, 2009 at 11:32 AM | Unregistered Commentergobias
Henry leaves out that the CEO from AIG, Liddy, was a former Gold Man and that the US Treasurer at that time, Paulson, was the former Gold Man CEO. Henry again forgets ot mention that a good chunk of GMAC only recently became CAPMARK after being sold to Goldman Sachs. CAPMARK is now well into bankruptcy. GMAC still owns over 20% of CAPMARK. Once again, it looks like free TARP money going to the Gold Men.

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Repeated from Black Swan...
Oct 30, 2009 at 3:42 PM | Registered CommenterDailyBail

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