{"id":240467,"date":"2010-01-28T04:19:21","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T09:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/2010\/01\/28\/economy-and-politics-john-mauldin-jeremy-grantham-richard-fisher-shifting-blame-amity-shlaes-dick-bove-street-on-stun\/"},"modified":"2010-01-28T04:19:21","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T09:19:21","slug":"economy-and-politics-john-mauldin-jeremy-grantham-richard-fisher-shifting-blame-amity-shlaes-dick-bove-street-on-stun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/240467","title":{"rendered":"Economy and Politics: John Mauldin, Jeremy Grantham, Richard Fisher, Shifting Blame, Amity Shlaes, Dick Bove, Street on Stun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/billcoppedge.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"bill-coppedge-dec09-1\" src=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/bill-coppedge-dec09-134.jpg\" width=\"88\" height=\"132\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"original content selection by MortgageNewsClips.com\" src=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/original-content-selection-by-MortgageNewsClips.com34.jpg\" width=\"294\" height=\"62\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/johnmauldin091.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"johnmauldin09\" src=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/johnmauldin09_thumb1.jpg\" width=\"107\" height=\"130\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/johnm-frontline2.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"johnm-frontline\" src=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/johnm-frontline_thumb2.gif\" width=\"244\" height=\"46\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><strong>important reading on deflation<\/strong> &#8211; Thoughts on the End Game &#8211; John Mauldin &#8211; has 2 items of interest &#8211;&nbsp; comments <strong>on book &#8220;This Time It&#8217;s Different&#8221; and Van Hoisington Quarter Letter<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.investorsinsight.com\/blogs\/thoughts_from_the_frontline\/archive\/2010\/01\/22\/thoughts-on-the-end-game.aspx\">Thoughts from the Frontline<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/prieur2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"prieur\" src=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/prieur_thumb2.jpg\" width=\"354\" height=\"75\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Jeremy Grantham: Lessons learned from the past decade<\/strong> &#8211; Posted by Prieur du Plessis &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.investmentpostcards.com\/2010\/01\/26\/jeremy-grantham-lessons-learned-from-the-past-decade\/\">Investment Postcards from Cape Town<\/a>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/wsj-opinion2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"wsj-opinion\" src=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/wsj-opinion_thumb2.png\" width=\"326\" height=\"35\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Congress Is Politicizing the Fed &#8211; By RICHARD W. FISHER<\/strong> &#8211; The assault on Ben Bernanke is part of a larger trend that is undermining the central bank&#8217;s independence. &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703808904575025042648895592.html?mod=googlenews_wsj\">WSJ Opinion<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/ibd-editorials.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"ibd-editorials\" src=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/ibd-editorials_thumb.png\" width=\"98\" height=\"71\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Shifting The Blame &#8211;&nbsp; Regulations<\/strong>: Apparently believing the best defense is a good offense, the president wasted no time after his jarring loss on medical overhaul in upping the ante on another of his signature issues \u2014 financial change. &#8230; <strong>But Wall Street didn&#8217;t cause the collapse \u2014 government did . &#8230; What undermined the financial system was a fanatical application of rules aimed at getting banks to lend as much money as possible to facilitate homeownership among minorities.&nbsp; It was the government, not Wall Street, that created the subprime market by compelling banks to make bad loans and urging Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to cash out the banks by putting more and more of the toxic mortgages on their balance sheets<\/strong>. &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.investors.com\/NewsAndAnalysis\/Article.aspx?id=518758\">IBD Editorial<\/a> <br \/>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/bloomberg8.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"bloomberg\" src=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/bloomberg_thumb8.gif\" width=\"200\" height=\"44\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><strong>written before State of Union speech &#8211; Obama Ready to Short U.S. With Japan Inc. Talk:<\/strong> Amity Shlaes &#8211; hatip John Cervarich &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601039&amp;sid=atNYanOKXsh4\">Bloomberg<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Stunned Wall Street Firms Don\u2019t Want to Wage War on Obama<\/strong> &#8211; By Robert Schmidt &#8211; When Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner and White House adviser Valerie Jarrett <strong>hosted a private dinner with the leaders of six banks<\/strong> to discuss financial regulation on Jan. 20, the bankers soon changed the subject. <strong>The president needed to stop demonizing Wall Street, they told Jarrett,<\/strong> according to three people familiar with the meeting. &#8230; <strong>After leaving the meeting around 9 p.m., the executives learned that Obama would ask Congress the next day to ban commercial banks from running proprietary trading operations, owning hedge funds, and rapidly increasing market share<\/strong>. &#8230; &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601208&amp;sid=a9WQ8el3qk9M\">Bloomberg<\/a>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/pragmatic-capitalist2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"pragmatic-capitalist\" src=\"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/pragmatic-capitalist_thumb2.png\" width=\"163\" height=\"59\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><strong>DICK BOVE: WE ARE ON THE PRECIPICE OF A POLITICALLY DRIVEN EQUITY CRASH &#8211;<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/pragcap.com\/dick-bove-we-are-on-the-precipice-of-a-politically-driven-equity-crash\">The Pragmatic Capitalist<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/mortgagenewsclips\/qTBe?a=Z-fK6QSkb_E:efAv5Yp-8ow:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/mortgagenewsclips\/qTBe?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/mortgagenewsclips\/qTBe?a=Z-fK6QSkb_E:efAv5Yp-8ow:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/mortgagenewsclips\/qTBe?i=Z-fK6QSkb_E:efAv5Yp-8ow:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/mortgagenewsclips\/qTBe?a=Z-fK6QSkb_E:efAv5Yp-8ow:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/mortgagenewsclips\/qTBe?i=Z-fK6QSkb_E:efAv5Yp-8ow:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/mortgagenewsclips\/qTBe?a=Z-fK6QSkb_E:efAv5Yp-8ow:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/mortgagenewsclips\/qTBe?i=Z-fK6QSkb_E:efAv5Yp-8ow:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/mortgagenewsclips\/qTBe\/~4\/Z-fK6QSkb_E\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; important reading on deflation &#8211; Thoughts on the End Game &#8211; John Mauldin &#8211; has 2 items of interest &#8211;&nbsp; comments on book &#8220;This Time It&#8217;s Different&#8221; and Van Hoisington Quarter Letter &#8211; Thoughts from the Frontline &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212; Jeremy Grantham: Lessons learned from the past decade &#8211; Posted by Prieur du Plessis &#8211; Investment [&hellip;]<\/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-240467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240467","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=240467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}