Archives for “JP Oliva”

Now that the Senate has passed a boated and, absent raising the FDIC insurance limit- materially indistinguishable bill from the one that the House voted ...


So far, the revised Paulson Plan looks very bad. Suspends mark-to-market pricing (not surprising, as it would BK many banks), allows banks to maintain ...


It is getting difficult to find this picture anymore: From a press conference held on June 3, 2003 — Pictured are Bush Administration officials from ...


We are at a critical juncture in our country's history.  Congress is being pressured to pass a bailout package that will cost the taxpayers trillions ...


Please read this, Petition: Economists against the Paulson Bailout Plan.


Here's the text of what I've been mailing and faxing to my Senators and Representatives in Congress.  Feel free to co-opt all or part of ...


Ok, gentle readers, this is THE moment we have to stop the largest fraud our Government has ever attempted to perpetrate on the taxpayers. ...


"How can we bailout Lehman without the public knowing about it?"  That's about the gist of the current thinking behind Bernanke & Paulson's latest scheming ...


Here's a great historical chart showing the DOW movements against the FED and Treasury interventions over the course of this crisis, good read (PDF): ...


Republican senator (and former Phillies Pitcher!) Jim Bunning calls for the resignations of Treasury Secretary Paulson and Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke. We no longer ...


Opining on the news of the Fannie Mae / Freddie Mac seizures by the Treasury Department, both Presidential candidates, as well as President Bush have ...


That is the sound of your party pilfering our bank accounts (socializing the losses), to pay for their bad investments. In the last twelve ...


Here's an interesting commentary on how the FED is allowing highly leveraged trades of Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac bonds for hard cash from the ...


For those of you who might still need convicing that there are real policy differences at stake in the up coming US presidential election, here ...