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I know what Bill O does is often for show, but man after this Fannie/Freddie crap, Bill was saying (and yelling) everything I'VE wanted to say to Barney Frank. Frank is a lying douche who deserves everything he's got coming to him. He is largely responsible for the financial fiasco we face now, yet he still wants to blame Bush Bill O'Reilly Smackdown Fannie Mae Freddie Mac Economy Crook Liar Democrat Bedwetter Categories: News & Events People & Stories

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I would like to see what Governor Sarah Palin s preparation entails. It doesn t seem that she actually prepares for anything. Tonight, she was on Katie Couric s CBS evening news. She s asked about Rick Davis, the campaign manager, whose lobbying firm has lobbied for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. She really does not have a coherent answer. Now, this is a softball question. She should have had the answer memorized. There was no way that Kate Couric wasn t going to ask a question about Rick Davis. How can she fumble the ball so badly? It is my understanding? What? Give a strong statement like, I have spoken with Rick Davis personally. He has assured me that he hasn t received any money from Freddie or Frannie in over 18 months. In my opinion, this is a much better answer. It is positive and forceful. It stops you from looking like a moron and puts the responsibility on Rick Davis where it belongs. One of her talking points is that Americans are waiting to see what John McCain is going to do. Interestingly, Katie Couric asked her why she believes that. Her answer is fascinating and naïve. She said that she does not look at poll numbers (remember Bush says this years ago) which suggests that Americans trust Barack Obama more than they trust John McCain with the economy but instead, Palin says that she believes that Americans at the end of the day we ll look at John McCain s track record. Track record equals experience. Something she doesn t have. Maybe the problem is that she is overprepared. She has learned to many talking points and cannot put together a coherent sentence without throwing in a talking point. Maybe that s the problem. I know, I m grasping at straws. Katie Couric asked are we looking at another Great Depression. The answer that any intelligent politician who could be one heartbeat away from the presidency should give would be we are not to let that happen. We re going to roll up our sleeves and do the interventions necessary to prevent another Great Depression. (My wife doesn t like this answer. She thinks that it sounds too canned. Maybe she is right. I know that I don t like a major politician saying that we maybe headed into a Great Depression.) How hard is that? Obviously, it is incredibly hard because that is not what she said. Unfortunately, that is the road that America may find itself on. Not necessarily this, as it s been proposed, has to pass or we re going to find ourselves in another Great Depression. What? Can someone help this lady, please? Would you support a moratorium on foreclosures? She can t answer the question. So, Katie Couric tries to get Sarah Palin to explain the pros and cons of a moratorium on foreclosures. Governor Palin can t do that either. She throws out some gobbledygook about predatory lenders and then drifted back to her talking point on a comprehensive long-term solution. She never mentions what that solution is. Or how she and John McCain will get us to this mystery solution. Sarah Palin has become painful to watch. This is worse that watching a train wreck. This is like that scene in the movie Misery where James Caan gets his ankles broken, it is that painful.

Wednesday morning news Roundup early edition Let s start with the ridiculous this morning, the White House sensing that there was odd rest on Capitol Hill sent none other than Vice President Dick Cheney to rally congressional Republicans. It is unclear to me why they didn t laugh in his face but they didn t. On the other hand, it is reported that they did rise up en masse and throw tomatoes at the VP (I made up that last part. ) Overseas, a gunman in Finland opens fire on a vocational college. This shooting appears to be similar to those that we ve seen in the United States. The gunman appeared to be randomly shooting students. One day prior to his rampage he was questioned by Finnish authorities about violent videos he posted on the Internet. It appears the authorities were on to something. The gunman did take his life as many of these guys do. My prayers go out to the victims and their families. Staying overseas, an interesting development in Baghdad yesterday, Royal Dutch Shell has completed a multibillion-dollar deal and has opened an office in Baghdad. 36 years after being kicked out of Iraq, the oil companies are back. This does not prove that we went to war over oil but it sure is a hell of a suggestion. Rick Davis, one of John McCain s top advisers, was president of a lobbying firm called Homeownership Alliance. Through this firm, Rick Davis, as reported in the New York Times, received over $2 million as president of the coalition. The purpose of this coalition was to lobby for Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. Yesterday, the New York Times reported that payments continue to flow to Rick Davis as late as August of this year. How can you clean up the culture of corruption in Washington when the same culture exists in your campaign? I m just asking? The FBI has opened an investigation into Lehman Brothers, AIG, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. I have little hope that real crimes have been committed. Instead, I think that these companies used the existing laws to hyper inflate and bundle securities. Then they passed the securities from one company to another repackaging them at every step of the way. They used some fancy and probably inaccurate formula to value the securities but I don t believe any laws were broken. Instead the problem was greed. I m not exactly sure what we are seeing on Capitol Hill. Our lawmakers pretending to have a backbone and look out for the American people? Both Republicans and Democrats in the House and the Senate have basically said that they needed to have more details and more oversight. I think both sides agree that something must be done. I also believe that both sides understand a bailout of some sort should happen and will happen but there has to be some conditions. That s my opinion, for now, it appears to be the opinion of the United States Congress. In his military trial, Khalid Sheik Mohammed has questioned the judges religious affiliation. The judge, a Marine colonel, has stated that he is not a Jew. The judge has refused to reveal any more of his religious beliefs. He is ruled that it is not relevant. John McCain finally held a press conference yesterday. This is a man who is entirely comfortable in front of the press until recently. Senator McCain has been railing against the excesses of Wall Street and their golden parachutes. A reporter asked the senator about Carly Fiorina, a McCain spokesperson and former CEO of Hewlett-Packard before she was fired. John McCain served up a large heaping bowl of hypocrisy. He basically said her golden parachute was fine everybody else s was bad. As Lehman Brothers goes down the toilet, they are handing out $2.5 billion in bonuses to 10,000 employees. I would like for someone to pay me lots of money to drive the 156-year-old company into the ground because I can do that. I thought that you got paid a bonus for a job well done. These 10,000 employees should pay us (or at least the stockholders)! Bill Moyers has a nice rant at the end of his show, this week. He discusses the greed that has run rampant on Wall Street. The greed that makes CEOs asks for more and more money. It is this greed which pushed the New York Yankees, one of the wealthiest franchises in professional sports, to ask the people of New York to build them a stadium. A new stadium. So, the House that Ruth built will be imploded soon. The House that the people built will open in April of 2009. The rich and the well-to-do can rub elbows. Sadly, the people who financed the stadium cannot afford to go in. (see video below)

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John McCain blames the nation’s economic woes on Barack Obama and lays out a plan for recovery, while Obama announced his support of the Fed and Treasury plan and urged more stimulus.

So much fun and so many games the past week I hardly know where to begin! A how-to guide to risk-free wealth accumulation devoid of any jail-time whatsoever, if you know the right people, of course... Learn all about the fun times this past week with Altria Group, the false airline bankruptcy rumors, the Frannie and Freddie taxpayer takeovers, the proposed auto-maker bailouts, and the deleveraging of the financial system by banks and institutions seeking to clean up their balance sheets by dumping their best assets and causing the temporary collapse of commodity and asset prices across the board. Books available at www.vlogolution.com/books: "Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets" by William Bonner and Lila Rajiva "The Revolution: A Manifesto" by Ron Paul Music: "Noite de Carnaval" by HisBoyElroy View Links, Notes, and Transcript for "STEALING TRILLIONS TO MAKE A FEW MILLIONS"

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This was pre-recorded for our Resonance show tomorrow as I was meant to travel to London today, but, alas, the Eurostar is on fire. So, here is our pre-recorded show and we will do a new one tomorrow instead. Listen

Asian central banks are big buyers of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac paper. They were terrified that Fannie and Freddie would collapse. Why the U.S. Treasury intervened.

We start Millionaire or Bust off with a tragic story about a local man who was killed by an SUV as he was getting into his car while picking his autistic son up from middle school in our town. We discuss some worrying issues with the way that the newspaper exposed their bank account information [...]

Bush's seizure of mortgage giants could reverse the housing crisis.

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September 2, 2008 4:15PM ET - Oil prices plunge as Gustav is downgraded from a hurricane to a tropical depression. Lehman Brothers jumps on confirmation a Korean bank plans to buy a stake.

Aug. 25, 2008, 4:15 p.m. ET - Stocks tumbled in the face of higher oil prices and more fears over the health of financial-services stocks

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The government need to use taxpayer dollars to save the top mortgage firms.

August 18, 2008 4:15PM ET - Report suggesting Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will inevitably need a government bailout weighed on the market. Sourced report says General Motors will roll out a big sales push with lower prices.

http://www.moMoneyTV.com -- So, the government engineers a short squeeze in the financials right as Merrill Lynch's CEO John Thain claims emphatically that Merrill Lynch wouldn't require any additional capital or write-downs. Only days later, everything seems to have changed for Merrill, as Thain suddenly announced that they just raised another $10 BILLION in capital! More rants and raves from the global elite on the wonderfully exciting kleptocratic cheatocracy under which we live. Books available at http://www.vlogolution.com/books: "Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets" by William Bonner and Lila Rajiva "The Revolution: A Manifesto" by Ron Paul Music: "Noite de Carnaval" by HisBoyElroy

Aug. 8, 2008 4:15 pm ET - Wall Street cheered another big drop in oil prices, sending the Dow and the Nasdaq higher.

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