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Timothy Geithner / Wall Street Journal:
My Plan for Bad Bank Assets — The private sector will set prices. Taxpayers will share in any upside. — The American economy and much of the world now face extraordinary challenges, and confronting these challenges will continue to require extraordinary actions.
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United States - Department of The Treasury:
Treasury Department Releases Details on Public Private Partnership Investment Program — The Financial Stability Plan - Progress So Far: Over the past six weeks, the Treasury Department has implemented a series of initiatives as part of its Financial Stability Plan that …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Financial Policy Despair — Over the weekend The Times and other newspapers reported leaked details about the Obama administration's bank rescue plan, which is to be officially released this week. If the reports are correct, Tim Geithner, the Treasury secretary, has persuaded President Obama …
John Heilemann / New York Magazine:
Inside Obama's Economic Brain Trust — It's not pretty at this moment. — Tim Geithner boarded the 6 a.m. US Airways shuttle to Washington last Wednesday at La Guardia, slid his rail-thin frame into seat 5C, then stared into the middle distance. Geithner is invariably described as boyish …
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Brad DeLong / Grasping Reality with Both Hands:
I Think Paul Krugman Is Wrong
I Think Paul Krugman Is Wrong
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Neil Irwin / Washington Post:
Treasury: Toxic Asset Prices to Be Determined by Auction
Treasury: Toxic Asset Prices to Be Determined by Auction
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
HE'S NOT ‘PUNCH DRUNK’.... For a while, the lead story from Politico last night was the idea that President Obama chuckled a little too much during his interview with Steve Kroft on “60 Minutes.” The headline on the piece read, “Kroft to Obama: Are you punch-drunk?”
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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Man of the Hour — With Steve Kroft as Lead Correspondent, ‘60 Minutes’ Is Ticking Right Along — On the night of the Emmys last fall, when one of his stories was up for an award and his tuxedo-clad colleagues were leaving for the ceremony, Steve Kroft stayed at the office until 1 a.m. …
Amanda Terkel / Think Progress:
I Was Followed, Harassed, And Ambushed By Bill O'Reilly's Producer — I Was Followed, Harassed, And Ambushed By Bill O'Reilly's Producer — On March 1, ThinkProgress picked up on a story by News Hounds, which noted that Fox News host Bill O'Reilly — who has made controversial comments …
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
500 miles later, I'm back in Madison. — Did you understand the previous post? If not, the answer — along with much congratulations and debate — appears in the comments, notably here. Let there be no doubt about it: A blogger — Althouse — is engaged to be married to a man who began …
Alex Knapp / Outside The Beltway | OTB:
Tea Parties, Going Galt, Iraq, and Delicious Irony — I've been following the growing “Tea Party” and “Going Galt” movements with no small amount of amusement, in part because there is really just too much sweet, delicious irony surrounding both of these groups of people (who, I might add, are largely the same people).
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Gateway Pundit:
Obama Upsets Sarkozy With Letter to Jacques Chirac — In his latest faux pas Obama managed to pi$$ off France... President Obama wrote Jacques Chirac saying he was looking forward to working with the former French president in the coming four years(?) — Monsters and Critics reported:
Bill Carter / New York Times:
Matthews Renews Contract at MSNBC — Chris Matthews, the usually garrulous host of “Hardball” on MSNBC, has quietly signed a new long-term contract to remain with the cable network through the next election, signaling that he had quit entertaining any plans to run for a Senate seat.
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
What the heck does Treasury do? — Barack Obama hasn't nominated 17 of 18 positions at Treasury needing Senate confirmation after more than two months on the job. The Financial Stability Oversight Board (FINSOB) has yet to meet during his administration despite a legal requirement to do so on at least a monthly basis.
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Mike McGraw / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Stimulus? U.S. to buy Chinese condoms, ending Alabama jobs — Call it a condom conundrum. — At a time when the federal government is spending billions of stimulus dollars to stem the tide of U.S. layoffs, should that same government put even more Americans out of work by buying cheaper foreign products?
The Huffington Post:
Howard Dean To Become Regular CNBC Contributor — Former DNC Chair Howard Dean will become a regular contributor for the business news network CNBC, a source close to the former Vermont Governor confirms. Dean started his new gig on Monday morning with a guest-hosting appearance on the station.
Kevin Bogardus / The Hill:
Obama budget takes hits from both sides — As President Barack Obama's budget enters its first make-or-break week, his plan for the federal government is having the most trouble with perhaps its most needed constituency: Washington lawmakers. — On Sunday, politicians from both sides …
Stephanie Simon / Wall Street Journal:
Texas School Board Set to Vote on Challenge to Evolution — The Texas Board of Education will vote this week on a new science curriculum designed to challenge the guiding principle of evolution, a step that could influence what is taught in biology classes across the nation.
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
WOW, I NEEDED THAT — As part of their efforts to make the scale and scope of Bernie Madoff's crimes clear to Judge Denny Chin in deciding the terms of his plea, confinement and eventual sentencing, the folks at the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York submitted emails …
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ABCNEWS:
JPMorgan Chase To Spend Millions on New Jets and Luxury Airport Hangar — Outraged Critics Decry the Proposal, Call For Bank To Abandon Plans — Embattled bank JPMorgan Chase, the recipient of $25 billion in TARP funds, is going ahead with a $138 million plan to buy two new luxury corporate jets and build …
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Fredric U. Dicker / New York Post:
GOV PLOTS SECRET TAX HIKE ON RICH — GOV. PATERSON and legislative Democrats have secretly agreed on an $8 billion, two- year tax hike on individuals making more than $500,000 a year that will “sunset” around the time he plans to run for election in 2010, legislative sources told The Post.
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