{"id":210061,"date":"2010-01-21T19:35:45","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T00:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/2010\/01\/21\/politics-government-at-work-fcic-website-inflation-bob-mcteer-california-crisis-gses-exempt-a-smaller-government\/"},"modified":"2010-01-21T19:35:45","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T00:35:45","slug":"politics-government-at-work-fcic-website-inflation-bob-mcteer-california-crisis-gses-exempt-a-smaller-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/210061","title":{"rendered":"Politics & Government at Work: FCIC Website, Inflation, Bob McTeer, California Crisis, GSEs Exempt, A Smaller Government"},"content":{"rendered":"

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FCIC Website<\/strong><\/a>  –<\/strong> If you did not see any of the FCIC Testimony on TV last week, you missed out on very interesting testimony and questioning.  The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission has a website.  Hearings and Testimony<\/strong><\/a> is one of the pages with a video of days 1 & 2 and pdf files of testimony.   Be sure and check out the <\/strong>testimony of Kyle Bass<\/strong><\/a>, partner at Hayman Advisors. <\/p>\n

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on inflation – Bernanke and the Beast<\/strong> – By N. GREGORY MANKIW –  IS galloping inflation around the corner? Without doubt, the United States is exhibiting some of the classic precursors to out-of-control inflation. But a deeper look suggests that the story is not so simple.<\/strong> – NY Times<\/a> <\/p>\n

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Bob McTeer – The War on Banks – Getting Curiouser and Curiouser<\/strong> – … Bank bashing in order to tap into the mob-rule psychology of the current populism undermines the ability of the administration\u2019s tax policies to be taken seriously<\/strong> by serious people. … – Bob McTeer Blog<\/a> <\/p>\n

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California’s Crisis Is Still In Its Infancy<\/strong> – Joe Weisenthal – California’s own Department of Finance recently put out a presentation called “California at the Brink of Financial Disaster” (mentioned in a guest post by Jim Gobetz here) which is basically a quick rundown of how the state got into such a fiscal mess, and how it might go about fixing itself. – Money Game at Business Insider<\/a> <\/p>\n

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The ‘Responsibility’ Tax – Fannie and Freddie are exempt from the White House banker ‘fee.’ –<\/strong> … Mr. Obama’s new “Financial Crisis Responsibility Fee”\u2014please don’t call it a tax\u2014is being sold as a way to cover expected losses in the Troubled Asset Relief Program. That sounds reasonable, except that the banks designated to pay the fee aren’t those responsible for the losses<\/strong>. … – WSJ Opinion<\/a> <\/p>\n

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What Washington Post Story Did Not Say about Its Own Poll: Most Americans Say They Want a Smaller Government – … Fifty-eight percent said they favor a smaller government<\/strong> with fewer services, and only 38 percent said they favor a larger government with more services. … – By Terence P. Jeffrey – CNSNews<\/a><\/p>\n

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  FCIC Website  – If you did not see any of the FCIC Testimony on TV last week, you missed out on very interesting testimony and questioning.  The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission has a website.  Hearings and Testimony is one of the pages with a video of days 1 & 2 and pdf files of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}