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- Citigroup’s dance with Dubai 01 December 11:46
- Summers lost Harvard billions 29 November 09:27
- Names in the news, 11.25.2009 25 November 10:10
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While the American economy sank, Citigroup put US taxpayer money to work helping to sustain the Dubai bubble, observes Washington’s blog. ...
The Boston Globe has an excellent piece on Larry Summers’ mismanagement of Harvard’s finances today. As president from 2001 to 2006, Summers overstepped his presidential duties and pushed most of the university’s cash into the market, against the frantic warnings of his investment chiefs. Thes...
* The White House has announced that President Obama will attend the UN climate change conference in Copenhagen. * Military contractors employed by Blackwater are at the center of asecret program of targeted assassinations in Pakistan, according toThe Nation’s Jeremy Scahill. ...
Faithful readers may have noticed that a good chunk of our recent research has centered on analysis of campaign contributions made by various power players: Chicago 2016 Committee Gave More to Obama than Goldman Sachs Following the Chamber money trail, part 1 and part 2 This has been made...
Former White House counsel Greg Craig first won then lost the torture transparency debate to National Security Council staffer Denis McDonough and a posse of ex-CIA directors, according to a must-read piece in Time...
In early March, as the AIG bonus controversy fueled public outrage at Wall Street’s chief enablers in Washington, it looked like Treasury Secretary Geithner would be forced out of his post before he got a chance to smell the cherry blossoms. ...
A new report from the TARP inspector general details how Tim Geithner dropped the ball in negotiations with AIG counterparties after the insurance giant’s collapse. ...
The New York Times revealed today that over 40 members of Congress read statements on the floor that parrotted talking points prepared for them by lobbyists for pharmaceutical giant Genentech...
At the Huffington Post, Ryan Grim is reporting that the broad-based, bi-partisan “Audit the Fed” movement is being threatened by an amendment introduced by Mel Watt, a member of the House Financial Services Committee: Rep. Me...
Now for some eye candy: visualizations of the tabular data I shared in my last post on the US Chamber of Commerce board’s political networks and giving patterns. ...
Fourteen Democratic Senators stood up for coal yesterday, notes the Wonk Room’s Brad Johnson: In a letter to Senate leaders, a bloc of senators with powerful coal interests in their states called for “fair emissions allowances in climate change legislation.” Their definition of “fair,” unfortuna...
The data is in — as promised, we’ve compiled comprehensive political giving info for every US Chamber of Commerce board member using OpenSecrets campaign contribution data. Cu...
In the hopes of predicting the next defector from the Chamber of Commerce (following the high-profile lead of Apple), we’ve compiled comprehensive political giving info on the business lobby’s 100+ board members. By...
Senator Dodd chose an interesting time to release his financial reform bill...
President Obama snatched up endorsements of the health bill by AARP and AMA and will visit the Capitol today to make one last push to lawmakers. (WSJ) Fourteen people are now charged with insider trading in conjunction with the Galleon Group case...
