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merkins Donating Member (309 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-05-10 07:31 PM
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Grayson ask: When will Geithner recuse himself on the Fed?
Alan Grayson storms back to the stage by asking just why is Tim Geithner, who has the biggest conflict of interest when it comes to Fed matters, even be allowed to have an opinion on Fed transparency issues. In today's ABC Top Line, Alan noted, “when Tim Geithner says that he doesn't want to see the Fed audited, what he's really saying is he doesn't want to see Tim Geithner audited,” Grayson said. “He was the head of the New York Fed for years and years. This audit would apply to him. And the actions he took -- which he can now take in secret and, when this bill passes, will no longer be secret -- we'll be able to see and understand the decisions that he made that among other things put huge amounts of bailout money into the hands of private interests.” Grayson added: “It's one of the biggest conflicts of interest I've ever seen.”

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“The Fed doesn't want to be audited. Who does? Do you want to be audited? I don't want to be audited, but sometimes it's necessary,” he said. “When you're handing out a trillion dollars at a time -- a trillion dollars at a time, which works out to $3,000 for every man woman and child in this country -- don't we have a right to know what happened to it?”

Grayson added: “It's central to the bill. We've had secret bailouts from the Fed to private interests now for the past two years without any exposure whatsoever. … We need to know what happened to our money, because when the Fed hands out our money, every dollar in your pocket, every dollar in your checking account, every dollar in your 401(k) becomes that much cheaper and less in value.”

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Richard Steele Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-05-10 07:35 PM
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1. K&R
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Demeter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-05-10 07:36 PM
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2. Geithner Belongs in Some Other Reality
He doesn't belong in any responsible government. Yet there he is. Cognitive dissonance!
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msongs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-05-10 07:42 PM
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3. Geithner is wall streets fix it man in the administration thanks to the president nt
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slipslidingaway Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-05-10 07:52 PM
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4. knr - some people opposed Geitner when he was nominated by Obama. nt
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