Posts Tagged ‘goldman-sachs’

Obama hearts Goldman Sachs

April 20th, 2010 | No Comments

A few days ago President Obama decided he was going to go after the finance industry.  The SEC immediately filed charges agaisnt Goldman Sachs.  Obama immediately hit the road attacking Republicans who supposedly went to Wall Street. So, the question I’ve got is if Obama’s going to return the $1,500,000 he’s taken from Goldman Sachs [...]

The Greatest Trade Ever

April 19th, 2010 | 2 Comments

Last week President Obama announced he was sick and tired of all the financial abuses going on and was going to do for the finance industry what he’s done to health care.  In the same fashion as he did the health care take-over, he didn’t say what he was going to do, but by God, [...]

Pay to Play – Obama’s fat cats

December 14th, 2009 | No Comments

Obama laid blame to the entire financial meltdown to the finance industry.  He trashed their bonuses as an example of why people don’t like banks right now. He sang a different tune last year.  He gladly accepted parts of their bonuses as the economy was melting down. Lehman Brothers $ 344,609 Bear Stearns $ 60,754 [...]

Marcy Kaptur tackles the subprime mess

January 18th, 2008 | No Comments

From Reuters: U.S. Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur came to a House committee hearing on Thursday prepared to ask U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson tough questions about his involvement in the subprime mortgage crisis. Unfortunately, she was questioning the chairman of the Federal Reserve. The Ohio Democrat, at a House of Representatives Budget Committee hearing, said she [...]