Tag archive for ‘Oversight’
US and World Markets fall and Congress looks for blame.
Today’s markets plummted around the world reacting to the bailout bill, worries about the broader credit markets, and the lack of reaction by most Western governments to what is undoubtedly a broadening financial crunch around the world. Panic swept through the world’s financial markets, wiping $2.5 trillion from share values, amid concern that regulators and politicians were struggling to get a grip on the worsening crisis of confidence.
Reform, not Rescue… Buy in, not Bail Out.
This is a restructuring, not a rescue. It’s a buy in, not a bailout. Congress and the White House need to realize that this effort’s main goal is the stabilization of the financial markets and the recapitalization of the financial system. It is not the time to take the taxpayer’s money and give it to Wall Street. It is not the time to take the taxpayer’s money and give it to homeowners who can’t pay their mortgages. We’re taking the taxpayers money and correcting an error we should have corrected over five years ago - making the markets more transparent and ensuring that people who benefit from risky deals also assume the downside to those deals when they go bad.
US Treasury enters the Home Mortgage Business
I am sure you have all read by now that the US Treasury Department has effectively “seized” control of the two US home mortgage market corporations - the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) and the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Me) - and placed them under the oversight of the Federal Housing Finance [...]
A call to renew the NSA intercept authorization
This article just came across on the wires:
House agrees to rare secret session on spy bill
I sincerely hope that the Congress and the White House can reach a resolution soon. Although there is great interpretation in many circles about conducting “spying” in the United States, the reality is that our enemies reside within the United [...]
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