'Helicopter Ben' Reborn as 'Banana Ben' Bernanke

Ben Bernanke earned the nickname "Helicopter Ben" for comments he made in a November 2002 speech, Deflation: Making Sure "It" Doesn't Happen Here, delivered at the National Economists Club in Washington, D.C. More...

POLITICS TRIUMPH OVER ECONOMICS: US Congress to Tax Bonuses

US Congress of morons wants to enact a law to tax Bonuses AKA Retention Awards rather than enacting the law there can not be any Bonuses or Awards as long as Companies are in loss. If this Law would have been there...

Circular Logic Defines Obama’s Turn At President

  " Leaders of the White House economic team and the Senate's top Republican bellowed about bonuses at a bailed-out insurance giant and pledged to prevent such payments in the future.From one Sunday talk...

Fed Chief Bernanke Sees End to Recession

"Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says he thinks the recession will probably be over by the end of this year but he still sees a risk there is not enough political will to stabilize the banking and financial...

Loathe Jim Cramer or Love Him, You Now Subsidize His Salary

How does it feel to finance the looting of your own retirement money.  The parent company of CNBC, which hired Jim to do Mad Money, is General Electric (GE), a company which received 139 billion dollars under...

Foreclosure

Our present economic crisis was brought on by a dynamic based upon the illusionary American Dream and the PT Barnum Scam presented by bankers and their ilk. People, of course, want their own home, their own space...

Special envoy for Burma or advocate for Burmese Regime

Burma Democratic Concerns (BDC) has determined that it is time for Ibrahim Gambari to vacate his post as United Nations Envoy to Burma. His continual failure to stem the tide of genocide has yielded catastrophic...

A appeal to the Canadian prime minister and US presidant Obama

The U.S. terror war as seen through the eyes of a prisoner When we first began corresponding with Khalid Awan in 2007, we had no idea why he was serving time in U.S. federal prison. We soon discovered Awan was one of the first of thousands of Muslims taken prisoner in the...

US officials presented incriminating evidences against Khali Awan

 Dear Sir / Madam I am 46 years old, Canadian citizen and native of Pakistan (Muslim). I was an immigration consultant in Canada and also member of Canadian Bar Association as part of my business , I had an...

Squeeze the Banker

Feeling stressed by economic woes? Get a grip with CreativeFeed’s Squeeze the Banker stress dolls. You know you really want to squash, squish, squeeze and shake down Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke,...

Fed Readies for Balance Sheet Tool as Rate Nears Zero

Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke may lower the the main US interest rate to the lowest level in history today. The interest rate is now approaching almost zero." The Federal Reserve may today reduce its main interest rate to the lowest level on record and prepare for one of the...

Federal Reserve Refuses to Disclose Recipients of $2 Trillion in Emergency Loans

The privately-owned Federal Reserve Corporation is giving away another $2 Trillion in taxpayer's money under rules that were mostly made up in the last 15 months as their economic shell game began to fall apart with the collapse of the Wall Street-inflated housing market...

Update: Bailout=A Sort of Universal Hedge Fund?

Daniel Gross, contributing to Slate.com, writes ".... It's massively leveraged. It's buying distressed assets. It's taking equity stakes ....", like a hedge fund, his assertion in the article,...

UPDATE: The Paulson Bailout IS a Stick Up!

An article, appearing at Forbes.com, on September 23, 2008, discussing Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson's bailout plan, supported by Federal Reserve Chairman, Ben Bernanke, the plan...

The Great, Great Depression...Not Just Yet-UNLESS

The American People must NOT blink! This is high stakes poker and we Must determine the bluff of our unfortunate opponent – the misguided and incapable GOP Bush White House! read more

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