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	<title>The Swamp Report &#187; Geithner</title>
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	<description>Political, Economic, and Finance related commentary. J.D. Swampfox Associates report on battles for prosperity against the &#34;Tarleton&#34; of big government.</description>
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		<title>Corruption in Treasury is mainstream news</title>
		<link>http://www.swampreport.com/economy/corruption-in-treasury-is-mainstream-news/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:19:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. D. Swampfox</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The NYT reports: The inspector general who oversees the government’s bailout of the banking system is criticizing the Treasury Department for some misleading public statements last fall and raising the possibility that it had unfairly disbursed money to the biggest banks. Is it just misleading or plain ole lying? Former Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The FED is presently independent from Congress but not from the banks</title>
		<link>http://www.swampreport.com/politics/the-fed-is-presently-independent-from-congress-but-not-from-the-banks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.swampreport.com/politics/the-fed-is-presently-independent-from-congress-but-not-from-the-banks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:25:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. D. Swampfox</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bernanke and Geithner both argue that the FED should be free from congressional audit review.  While this &#8220;freedom&#8221; is in effect, the FED is truly free to do whatever its owners, the banks, tell it to do.  Minyanville has a great piece that argues that &#8220;the Federal Reserve has been responsible for every financial crisis [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Faber: Bernanke is a &#8220;criminal&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.swampreport.com/economy/faber-bernanke-is-a-criminal/</link>
		<comments>http://www.swampreport.com/economy/faber-bernanke-is-a-criminal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:29:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. D. Swampfox</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.swampreport.com/?p=1649</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Click the button below to hear Dr. Marc Faber tell the truth about Bernanke and Geithner (from Kingworld News): [audio:drmarcfaberintro.mp3]]]></description>
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		<title>Ken Lewis told the truth</title>
		<link>http://www.swampreport.com/politics/ken-lewis-told-the-truth/</link>
		<comments>http://www.swampreport.com/politics/ken-lewis-told-the-truth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 00:33:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. D. Swampfox</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coverup]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Geithner]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.swampreport.com/?p=1382</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Zero Hedge has a must read on Judicial Watch&#8217;s release of Treasury Department talking points of the meeting with the nine big banks in October. The release demonstrates that Ken Lewis was telling the truth when he says he was threatened.  The Obama Administration withheld information specific to Tim Geithner&#8217;s role.  This paste is from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will government or the invisible hand do the trick?</title>
		<link>http://www.swampreport.com/economy/will-government-or-the-invisible-hand-do-the-trick/</link>
		<comments>http://www.swampreport.com/economy/will-government-or-the-invisible-hand-do-the-trick/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:58:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. D. Swampfox</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Douglas McIntyre]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[invisible hand]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.swampreport.com/?p=1251</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Douglas A. McIntyre at 24/7 Wall St. is a little cynical that the government is up to the task of turning the economy around: &#8220;After the GDP numbers were released, the Fed put out the minutes of its two-day Federal Open Market Committee. At the core of the statement was one of the greatest hedges [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WSJ: Banks need more capital</title>
		<link>http://www.swampreport.com/politics/wsj-banks-need-more-capital/</link>
		<comments>http://www.swampreport.com/politics/wsj-banks-need-more-capital/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:04:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. D. Swampfox</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investments]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[bank stress tests are a sham]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the WSJ, the sacrificial lambs will include B of A, Citi and a few regionals: Regulators have told Bank of America Corp. and Citigroup Inc. that the banks may need to raise more capital based on early results of the government&#8217;s so-called stress tests of lenders, according to people familiar with the situation. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Geithner proposed government gaurantee ALL bank assets</title>
		<link>http://www.swampreport.com/politics/geithner-proposed-government-gaurantee-all-bank-assets/</link>
		<comments>http://www.swampreport.com/politics/geithner-proposed-government-gaurantee-all-bank-assets/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:13:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. D. Swampfox</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bureaucrats]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[bank oligopoly]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.swampreport.com/?p=1159</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From the New York Times: Last June, with a financial hurricane gathering force, Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. convened the nation’s economic stewards for a brainstorming session. What emergency powers might the government want at its disposal to confront the crisis? he asked. Timothy F. Geithner, who as president of the New York Federal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cuomo stirs the cover-up</title>
		<link>http://www.swampreport.com/politics/cuomo-stirs-the-cover-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.swampreport.com/politics/cuomo-stirs-the-cover-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:55:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. D. Swampfox</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investments]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.swampreport.com/?p=1062</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is a link to New York Attorney General Cuomo&#8217;s letter to the SEC, Elizabeth Warren, Barney Frank and Chris Dodd regarding the government&#8217;s coverup of the extent of Merrill&#8217;s losses by threatening Ken Lewis to keep quiet or lose his job.  Let&#8217;s hope Cuomo and others keep the backbone to chase this wherever it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Geithner&#8217;s a bureaucrat through and through</title>
		<link>http://www.swampreport.com/bureaucrats/geithners-a-bureaucrat-through-and-through/</link>
		<comments>http://www.swampreport.com/bureaucrats/geithners-a-bureaucrat-through-and-through/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:48:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. D. Swampfox</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bureaucrats]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.swampreport.com/?p=1056</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Portfolio.com&#8217;s Gary Weiss has a fair assessment of Timid Tim here. It&#8217;s worth the read.  The real question raised in the article is: Are we really OK with a innovation-averse bureaucrat learning on the job to lead the treasury department in the middle of a financial crisis?  Swamp Report is not, but Obama will never [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bill Black: Bank stress tests are a sham&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.swampreport.com/economy/bill-black-bank-stress-tests-are-a-sham/</link>
		<comments>http://www.swampreport.com/economy/bill-black-bank-stress-tests-are-a-sham/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:51:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. D. Swampfox</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.swampreport.com/?p=684</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;If we lie to the people and they believe us, all will be well.&#8221;   We think only the most naive don&#8217;t already know it, but since we have seen the suckers move markets on ignorance in the past, it may help to let experts, like Bill Black, a former senior bank regulator responsible for helping [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Treasury Plan is a travesty for taxpayers, boon for PIMCO and Blackrock&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.swampreport.com/economy/the-treasury-plan-is-a-travesty-for-taxpayers-boon-for-pimco-and-blackrock/</link>
		<comments>http://www.swampreport.com/economy/the-treasury-plan-is-a-travesty-for-taxpayers-boon-for-pimco-and-blackrock/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. D. Swampfox</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[bailout]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[But what about the banks?Â  It is indeed a travesty that the taxpayer is funding most of the &#8220;deal&#8221; and is giving up most of the upside to the bond daddy&#8217;s, like PIMCO and Blackrock.Â  However, the greed of said bond daddy&#8217;s will make it hard for them to turn this deal down.Â  Setting conscience [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An example: how Geithner&#8217;s plan would work</title>
		<link>http://www.swampreport.com/politics/an-example-of-how-geithners-plan-could-work-you%e2%80%99ve-also-transmuted-a-30mm-economic-loss-into-a-3675mm-economic-loss-because-of-the-laundering-so-its-incredibly-inefficient/</link>
		<comments>http://www.swampreport.com/politics/an-example-of-how-geithners-plan-could-work-you%e2%80%99ve-also-transmuted-a-30mm-economic-loss-into-a-3675mm-economic-loss-because-of-the-laundering-so-its-incredibly-inefficient/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:23:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. D. Swampfox</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we said in a previous post, the proposed program is designed to hide the fact thatÂ  the taxpayer is paying for all the losses on the assets and the bank bondholders are unscathed.Â  But according to this comment by John C. Halasz on James Kwak&#8217;s Baseline Scenario coverage of the Geithner plan , it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>White House confident in Treasury&#8217;s AIG oversight</title>
		<link>http://www.swampreport.com/economy/white-house-confident-in-treasurys-aig-oversight/</link>
		<comments>http://www.swampreport.com/economy/white-house-confident-in-treasurys-aig-oversight/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. D. Swampfox</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bureaucrats]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Associated Press: &#8220;White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said President Barack Obama had confidence in Geithner and the Treasury Department&#8217;s oversight. But Gibbs underscored that Obama is working as quickly as possible with Congress to find ways to block the bonuses at the American International Group Inc. or at least to recoup the money.&#8221; Whenever we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mike Whitney: TALF Witness Protection Program</title>
		<link>http://www.swampreport.com/economy/mike-whitney-bernankes-talf-witness-protection-program/</link>
		<comments>http://www.swampreport.com/economy/mike-whitney-bernankes-talf-witness-protection-program/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:35:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. D. Swampfox</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mike Whitney at Market Oracle comments on a WSJ article describing Bernanke and Gethner&#8217;s 2 trillion dollar TALF and associated private/public partnership program: &#8220;The Fed&#8217;s culpability in this boondoggle is undeniable. Bernanke and his wily friend at Treasury have given their full support to a plan that does nothing but move trillions of dollars of [...]]]></description>
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