Category Archives: banking

Game Plan

After three years of anger over ObamaCare and the housing crisis, the Republican nomination is boiling down to RomneyCare vs The Freddie Mac water boy. Here’s Krauthammer.

Banking on Europe

The Fed sent a gusher of cheaper dollars to European banks. Robert Samuelson tells us what this means.

Bye Bye, Barney

We won’t have Barney Frank to kick around any more and vice versa – here’s Dana Milbank on Barney the Bully.

This was inspired by one of my favorite Don Wright cartoons. Unfortunately I can’t seem to find a link to it. The cartoon featured a Vietnamese family standing in a landscape of bomb craters waving thanks to American jets as they flew away at the end of the war.

I’ve always considered Barney Frank just as much a friend to the poor as we were to the Vietnamese.

Newt Loot

As surprise front-runner Newt Gingrich begins unpacking his baggage in Iowa the first item up for inspection is his $1.8 million dollar punched ticket on the Freddie Mac gravy train.

The figures in the chart for Franklin Raines and James Johnson are from IBD. Gorelick’s $26 mil came from CNSnews.

Watch Your Step

Jon Stewart explores inequality inside Occupy Wall Street. OWS didn’t quite achieve a classes society but it can point with pride to a few classless people.  You can watch one here but it’s kind of gross.