Tag: Tim Geithner

Sometimes when I see things on the news or in the paper I think back to the scene from Scrooged where Bill Murray is pleading with the set crew to “Stop the hammering!”  I’d like to ask our political leaders and our press corps to stop the hammering on things…

Angry Bear is one of my favorite economic blogs and Ken Houghton is one of my favorite economic bloggers.  He calls ’em like he sees’ em.  In this case, he sees profound macroeconomic stupidity from Bernanke and Tim Geithner.

Obviously I agree with the New York Times on this one, or I wouldn’t bother re-posting it here. But the vacuous campaign being run by Mr. Ron Johnson hasn’t gone unnoticed nationally! When it came to the actual details of governing, Senator Russ Feingold, a Democrat of Wisconsin, trounced his…

Apparently, it’s pretty hard if you’re Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner or Secretary of Health & Human Services nominee Tom Daschle. I’ve heard the explanations offered by both men, who’ve blamed their failure to fully pay their taxes on accounting errors or oversights, and while I’m a firm believer in the…