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come on, geithner!

By mitchell b powell | Published: 1000, 4th April, 2010
From this story. April 3 (Bloomberg) — U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner delayed a scheduled April 15 report to Congress on exchange-rate policies, sidestepping a decision on whether to accuse China of manipulating the value of the yuan. And so we continue our ridiculous charade of blaming China Related Posts:Republican debate notes, pt. 1: [...]
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i’ve got to side against my so-called ‘conservative’ brethren on this one

By mitchell b powell | Published: 2302, 18th February, 2010
The Drudge Report (my favorite news site), has posted a link to this story, with the headline (by Drudge):  IT’S STARTING:  Fed Raises Discount Rate . . . There’s a lot in that headline.  First, the bold “IT’S STARTING” tells us that some horrible thing is happening to us, and that what follows is only [...]
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