Posts Tagged ‘subprime’

Economy, federal rules challenge Kentucky banks

October 28th, 2009 | No Comments

I get the newsletter from the Kentucky Legislative Research Commission.  It’s full of all kinds of neat stuff that doesn’t make the news a whole lot.  In fact, more often than not I have to just paste the text in here because no media feels like fooling with it.  So far, this has been the [...]

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 [...]

Sometimes The Hill is hard to believe

October 8th, 2007 | 1 Comment

I read The Hill’s Congress Blog probably a lot more than I should.  It labels itself “where lawmakers come to blog”.  However, just about anyone can get a post on it.  PACs, unions, 527s, you name it, they’re there.  It seems to have become the primary communications vehicle for the whackiest representatives as well.  One [...]