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Glenn Mesaros

golden valley, MN
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In fact, after Obama's bilateral meeting with Russian President Dmitri Medvedev during the G20 summit, Medvedev had commented that Russia might not have to launch counter-measures against the planned U.S. system, because of the positive indications coming from Obama. There has been no official Russian response to Obama's remarks, as of this writing, but Lyndon LaRouche noted yesterday that Obama blew any agreement he may have thought he had made with the Russians, and that he was switching...

Posted on 04/06/09 at 08:57 am in response to Ugh: The thin brown line, continued

James K. Galbraith said recently:

The deepest belief of the modern economist is that the economy is a self-stabilizing system. This means that, even if nothing is done, normal rates of employment and production will someday return. Practically all modern economists believe this, often without thinking much about it. (Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said it reflexively in a major speech in London in January: "The global economy will recover." He did not say how he knew.) The...

Posted on 04/06/09 at 08:59 am in response to Monday links roundup

According to the Washington Post, the Obama administration believes it can bypass the regulations established by Congress by setting up "special purpose entities" that act as middlemen, channeling the bailout funds to the firms, rather than dispensing the aid directly. The administration has decided that congressional restrictions, which would require recipients to turn over ownership stakes to the government as well as curb executive pay, should not apply in at least 3 of 5 initiatives...

Vaclav Klaus, President of the Czech Republic, giving a keynote address to a conference of scientists and others who reject the lies of the British Empire's green fascists, accused the European Union governments of being global warming "alarmists," while hiding their actual intentions. "They probably do not want to reveal their true plans and ambitions--to stop economic development and return mankind several centuries back," said Klaus.

The three-day conference in New York City is...

Posted on 03/31/09 at 04:36 pm in response to Budget battle in Congress: It's Democrat vs. Democrat

Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) broke open the droning budget debate with a speech on the Senate floor today, saying the financial collapse trumps any mere budgetary discussion. He said he was one of only eight Senators who voted against the 1999 repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act's provisions that had separated commercial banking from investment banking. At that time, he warned that the result would be massive taxpayer bailouts of a crashing, derivatives-riddled, banking system, and he was right....

Posted on 03/31/09 at 08:58 am in response to How's Obama doing? The view from 'Main Street'

It has been become increasingly apparent that there was a potentially cataclysmic split inside the Administration. While a clearly hoodwinked President Obama was persuaded by Larry Summers and his backers that the way to solve this worst financial and monetary crisis in modern history was to turn the keys to the banking system--at taxpayers expense--to a bunch of hedge fund thieves, saner voices echoed the policies outlined by LaRouche. A group of prominent and accomplished economists, most...

Posted on 03/31/09 at 08:54 am in response to What's good for General Motors would be good for the banks

"Call it Uncle Sam's hedge fund," Robert J. Samuelson wrote in today's Washington Post. "The rescue of the American financial system proposed by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is, in all but name, a gigantic hedge fund." "'Leverage'—borrowing—helped create this mess. Now it's expected to get us out," he said.

The Geithner hedge fund scheme supposedly allows the buyers of bank assets to borrow $6 for every $1 they invest, but the real leverage is 12:1, since the Treasury will...

Posted on 03/30/09 at 08:45 am in response to Four bears: The present crisis versus three past crashes

James Galbraith:

In short, if we are in a true collapse of finance, our models will not serve. It is then appropriate to reach back, past the postwar years, to the experience of the Great Depression. And this can only be done by qualitative and historical analysis. Our modern numerical models just don't capture the key feature of that crisis -- which is, precisely, the collapse of the financial system. If the banking system is crippled, then to be effective the public sector must do...

Posted on 03/30/09 at 08:36 am in response to Politicians or bankers: Who's to blame?

White Shoe Morgan banker and partner Russell Leffingwell sent a note to FDR in the summer of 1932, entitled, "Dear Frank: You and I know that we cannot cure the present deflation and depression by punishing the villians, real or imaginary, of the first post-war decade (1920s), and that when it comes down to the day of reckoning nobody gets very far with all this prohibition and regulation stuff."

When "Frank" responded that the bankers were responsible for "grave abuses", and...

Why don't you travel a few miles north to Winnipeg and tour their flood channel, which they built in the 1960's, and has protected that city from similar floods for 50 years.

They called it "Duff's Ditch". You should be agitating President Obama to build one for Minnesota in his Stimulus Budget, instead of whining about geological conditions.