Given the breadth and depth of bailouts last September, it should come as no surprise that some of the conditions of the rescue packages were unclear to both parties. Take, for example, the support for forthcoming regulation that was apparently expected of banks in exchange for taxpayer dollars. Repayment of principal and interest is nice and all, but the real debt repayment was buried somewhere in the implied fine print.
Banks receiving aid are “literally going and fighting the very type of regulations and reforms that are necessary to prevent, again, a crisis like this happening”, Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said on CNN’s “State of the Union” yesterday.
While there is more than a hint of biting the hand that feeds, it’s not as though every single financial services organization was on the verge of being Lehmanized and needed to be TARPed. You’d think firms that were better positioned to withstand the economic hurricane would have a right to speak there minds. Just don’t tell that to Larry Summers.
“There is no financial institution that exists today that is not the direct or indirect beneficiary of massive taxpayer support for the financial system,” Summers said in remarks to a conference sponsored by the Economist magazine.
Including the US Treasury. Or would Timmy G like to have that one back?
Obama, Advisers Fault Rescued Banks for Opposing Rules Revamp [Bloomberg]
I’ll know the market has topped when:
-Greg gets his old job back or finds any job tangentially related to finance.
-The LSO guy comes back saying he was too hasty to quit.
Greggums:
I was so scared for you when I saw Mommy’s balloon fly off into the sky. YOU STAY BY MOMMY’S SIDE!!!
You know in the office when michael realizes that toby is actually back, thats what i just did when i saw this articles headline. didnt even need a by line.
There’s so much fucking poetry in the idea of Rahmn Emanuel calling anyone a hypocrite.
And, clearly, there is no politician in the US that is not the direct beneficiary of every source of revenue in this country.
Check out Frank Rich’s 10/18/09 NY Times column where he goes after Goldman and says some unkind things about Timmy…
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/18/opinion/18rich.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=frank%20rich&st=cse
Same Frank Rich that was hailing the new political age just a year ago.
I was holding my breath hoping management and Greg finally had “the talk” this morning but nooooooo
Oh. Great. Greg is still alive. Sigh
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Greg -
I don’t know where you were on Friday, but it certainly wasn’t writing school. You douche.
Love,
Mom
#5 Nailed it. Muffy?
“There is no financial institution that exists today that is not the direct or indirect beneficiary of massive taxpayer support for the financial system,”
Vague statement that’s impossible to disprove? Sounds good, Larry. Put it out there. The hoi polloi will eat it up.
Q: What’s the difference between Rahm Emanuel and a carp?
A: One is a scum sucking bottom feeder and the other is a fish.
@6
You mean you couldn’t hold it a little longer to make the world a more interesting place and kill off another boilerplate Greg commenter?
@13 – Nice try, Greg
@14
Utterly predictable.
-13… not Greg
@15 – Nice try, Greg’s Mom.
Rahm Emanuel is a schmuck who makes other schmucks look bad.
No doubt he will be the first of Obama’s staff members to resign “to spend time with his family.”
@16
You’re obviously a little slow, which is to be expected from those who keep making the same tired comments over and over again. Greg’s mom hates him now too, or have you not been paying attention. Try to keep up kiddo.