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Re: Honey, I Found the Voter Registration Fraud
05/22/12 6:02 am
Question: Does the GOP at any level do anything like a basic background check? It'd make elections a lot less embarassing.Re: Morning Awful: Libertarians
05/18/12 12:42 pm
Quoth Cerberus at Sadly, No!: You know, I want a magic button that deprives people who say they are self-made and didn’t rely on no gover...Re: Morning Awful: Libertarians
05/18/12 5:11 am
:: facepalm :: Libertarians remind me of starry-eyed 19 year-old college students who have lots of lofty ideas that would never work in ...05/17/12 6:40 am
Conrad Black did it to get a fancy title and thought he wouldn't get caught.Re: Wingnut Wind Power Wankery is Not About Free Markets
05/14/12 4:48 pm
You can add this to the list of idiocies. –alopeciaRe: Morning Awful: Closet Romney
05/13/12 9:58 am
As Bill Maher said in his monologue on Friday (one of the more prescient comments), in most salons, the guy wielding the scissors is the ga...Re: The Democratic Party Marijuana Evolution
05/11/12 3:48 pm
Buy stocks in marijuana too. It goes to a good cause and you make some money on the side. If marijuana is so bad, why is it that there are ...05/09/12 2:47 pm
I swear, I wrote this last night, and I had no idea what was coming today.Re: Morning Awful: North Carolina
05/09/12 10:37 am
My thoughts on this are going up in a comic later tonight. Good news is, it appears the President listened to them before they even got ...Re: Morning Awful: North Carolina
05/09/12 6:03 am
I was so disappointed when I heard the news about North Carolina this morning. There's still a lot of work to do.Re: Morning Awful: North Carolina
05/09/12 2:26 am
Thank you. I could not have said this better. The more they bemoan and bully the President for a response, the more divided the Democrats l...05/08/12 12:39 pm
This makes perfect sense. My problem is that I have come to dislike organized religion so much, feel so cynical about it, I don't know...Re: #StopRush, ALEC, and the Howard Stern Category
05/08/12 11:59 am
Like “class warfare,” it is only wrong when we fight back. Sounds an awful lot like every bully, everywhere, doesn't it? –alopeciaRe: Morning Awful: Mitt Romney is Weak
05/08/12 6:46 am
Rachel Maddow is rooting for Ron Paul...and thinks the current president has too much power - like there ARE two other branches of governme...
Category Archives: Financial Reform
Restoring Economic Facts
Galleon Group LLC co-founder Raj Rajaratnam is guilty on all counts: Although Rajaratnam never testified at his trial, the jurors heard his voice on dozens of tapes, and they did not paint a flattering portrait. The tapes proved that the … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Foreclosure Fever
At HuffPo, Shahien Nasiripour reports that active duty military members have been victims of illegal foreclosure: The GAO report, which focused on problems in the mortgage industry and the lack of federal oversight, is the first official study to feature … Continue reading
The Culture Of Criminal Capital
Much to everyone’s surprise, HuffPo’s Shahien Nasiripour reports, the Financial Crisis Commission has ended its work by referring Wall Street malfeasance to prosecutors: Richard Bowen, former chief underwriter for Citigroup’s consumer-lending unit, testified that, in the middle of 2006, he … Continue reading
Fed: End Foreclosure Abuse
Put it in the just-like-Bush file: WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve has reversed its opposition to new rules reining in foreclosure abuses, and will support stronger regulations on the nation’s largest banks, according to a source familiar with the matter. … Continue reading
Morning Awful: No Bailout For Democracy
From WaPo: Companies that received federal bailout money, including some that still owe money to the government, are giving to political candidates with vigor. Among companies with PACs, the 23 that received $1 billion or more in federal money through … Continue reading
Where Bloggers Go Wrong, I Think
David Axelrod has been floating the idea that banks just need a little more time, is all, after banks spent the last 27 months avoiding responsibility for mortgage fraud, therefore a national foreclosure moratorium is not needed. See how that … Continue reading
Foreclosure Fever
The president used his “pocket veto” last Friday to strike down an ugly bill that would have let banks foreclose on homes with out-of-state notaries. This was the banks’ way of trying to deal with all the bad paperwork from … Continue reading
Media Drops Finance Reform Bombshell
The president managed to get a consumer reform bill out of Congress, and the details look good. As HuffPo tells it: The era of the $35 cup of coffee has come to an end, for most. Whhhhhaaaaah? I thought the … Continue reading
Unions Pay $10 Million For Volcker Rule
Wednesday morning, the White House staff was admonishing unions for spending $10 million in a primary challenge that came within four points of unseating Arkansas’ Blanche Lincoln. By this morning they were walking it back. Why? Because meanwhile, Lincoln’s primary … Continue reading
Brownback Mountain
The Senate voted yesterday to stop incentivizing mortgage fraud. Mortgage brokers and loan officers will no longer earn more for sticking a higher interest rate in the fine print, and they have to prove you can repay the loan. They … Continue reading
The Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Firebreak
Can we just review one important fact about these two institutions before we have a Senate debate on them? They were both privatized in 1968 — a fact central to the story of the meltdown: In the schizoid reality of … Continue reading
