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Posted on 23 November 2009. Tags: 1913, Alan Grayson, audit, Barney Frank, Chairman, Congress, Democrats, Don Cohn, economists, Federal Reserve Bank, General Counsel Scott Alvarez, Glenn Greenwald, Government Accountability Office, House Finance Committee, HR 1207, Mel Watt, Ron Paul, Ryan Grim, Vice Chairman, Waterloo
For the first time in history, the Federal Reserve Bank may be facing an audit. On Thursday, the House Finance Committee passed a bill (HR 1207) that authorizes the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to conduct a wide-ranging audit of the Fed’s secretive deals with foreign central banks and major U.S. financial institutions.
HR 1207, sponsored by Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX), currently has 313 co-sponsors in the House from both sides of the aisle, which is a veto-proof majority. A companion bill in the Senate (S 604) has 30 co-sponsors.
Glenn Greenwald, an investigative reporter writing for Salon.com, points out what may be the most significant aspect of the passage of HR 1207: Read the full story
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Posted on 09 November 2009. Tags: Ask.com, Chairman, Chief Executive, Google, Google News, microsoft, News Corporation, Rupert Murdoch, Sky News Australia, The Sun, The Times, the wall street journal, threat
Google has clarified that it will not index publishers against their wishes, in response to Rupert Murdoch’s threat to block the search engine from his newspapers’ websites.
A spokesman for the search giant said: “Google News and web search are a tremendous source of promotion for news organisations, sending them about 100,000 clicks every minute.
“Publishers put their content on the web because they want it to be found, so very few choose not to include their material in Google News and web search. But if they tell us not to include it, we don’t.” Read the full story
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Posted on 30 September 2009. Tags: 1969, 2001, 2008, Andrew Cuomo, Attorney General, Bank of America, CEO, Chairman, Charlotte, Congress, Edolphus Towns, House Committee, Ken Lewis, Merrill Lynch, New York, Oversight and Government Reform, probing, Retire, Securities and Exchange Commission
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Ken Lewis, the beleaguered CEO of Bank of America, announced Wednesday that he will retire at year’s end.
Lewis, who was stripped of his chairman title in April, will also step down from the board. No successor was named. Read the full story
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Posted on 21 September 2009. Tags: 2007, AT&T, Barack Obama, Ben Scott, Brookings Institute, Chairman, Comcast, David Cohen, executive vice president, FCC, Federal Communications Commission, Free Press, internet, Jim Cicconi, Julius Genachowski, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Meredith Baker, net neutrality, New York, policy director, President, Robert McDowell, Texas, Troy, Verizon, Verizon Communications Inc, Washington, www.OpenInternet.gov
We knew it was going to happen, but we’re still stoked to report that FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski formally proposed a set of net neutrality rules this morning, calling them “the fair rules of the road for companies that control access to the internet.” There are two big new rules, which say broadband providers of any kind can’t discriminate against content or applications, and must be transparent about their network management policies — a big change for wireless carriers like Verizon and AT&T, who would have to open their networks to scrutiny, and a direct response to Comcast’s secretive packet-filtering techniques.
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Posted on 20 September 2009. Tags: Barack Obama, Board of Directors, Chairman, David Rockefeller, FBI, Federal Reserve Bank, genocide, global biotechnology, Inc, Jerry Speyer, journalist, Larry Silverstein, Len Horowitz, Morton Zuckerman, new york city, Pandemic, President, Rupert Murdock, Sherri Kane, Silverstein Properties, Thomas Glocer, wall street, World Trade Center
Los Angeles, CA— World leading drug-industry investigators have uncovered stunning documents proving an international drug ring, operating from New York City, is behind the H1N1 swine flu fright and vaccination preparations. Read the full story
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Posted on 16 September 2009. Tags: $21 million, auditing, cash, Chairman, companies, Congress, Democrat, dollars, drilling, energy, General Accountability Office, House Natural Resources Committee, Interior, Ken Salazar, leases, legislation, millions, Minerals Management Service, natural gas, Nick Rahall, offshore drilling, oil, Politics, program, public land, royalties, royalty-in-kind program, Secretary, termination, West Virginia, White House
WASHINGTON — Interior Secretary Ken Salazar today told Congress he would kill a controversial program that allows energy companies to use actual oil and natural gas — instead of cash — to pay the government royalties for drilling on public lands. Read the full story
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Posted on 15 September 2009. Tags: 1882, 1974, 1977, 2001, 2003, Associated Press, audit committee, Austin Shapard, Barclay McFadden III, boston, Bristol, Chairman, Chief Executive, chief operating, CIT Group Inc, Colin Campbell, financial officer, Gregg Miliote, Harvard, investment manager, James S. McDonald, John D. Rockefeller, Mark Pratt, Massachusetts, New York, NYSE Euronext, Pell Rudman Trust Co, President, Rockefeller & Co, University of Virginia, Washington, Wilmington, Writer
MARK PRATT Associated Press Writer
12:08 PM CDT, September 15, 2009
BOSTON (AP) — James S. McDonald, president and chief executive of investment management firm Rockefeller & Co., has died of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound, Massachusetts authorities said Tuesday. Read the full story
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Posted on 02 September 2009. Tags: Alan Greenspan, Banks, Chairman, Congress, economics, federal government, federal reserve, finance, Financial, Ludwig von Mises, policymaking, politics, The Housing Boom and Bust, thomas lahey, Thomas Sowell, United States
By Thomas Lahey
Forum Columnist
“Economic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics.” These words, written by economist Ludwig von Mises, seem terribly pertinent in light of recent developments in the United States. Congress extends its reach over the economy daily with every new regulatory measure it can think up. In today’s world, where problems are a dime a dozen, that means a lot of new legislation. Unfortunately, the question is never “Should the government do something?” but always, “What should the government do and how quickly?” This is a recipe for bad policy. Read the full story
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Posted on 28 August 2009. Tags: Association, audit the Fed, Bank of America, BB&T Corporation, Bloomberg, CEO, Chairman, Citigroup, Comerica Incorporated, Deutsche Bank Americas, disclosure, Ellen Alemany, Executives, federal reserve, Henry L. Meyer III, HSBC Bank USA, institution, James Dimon, James E. Rohr, John G. Stumpf, JPMorgan Chase, Kelly S. King, Kenneth D. Lewis, KeyCorp, Masaaki Tanaka, Paul J. Lawrence, PNC Bank, President, racketeering, Ralph W. Babb Jr., RBS Americas & Citizens Financial Group, Richard K. Davis, Robert Kelly, senior, Seth Waugh, stigmatize, Teresa M. Ressel, The Bank of New York Mellon, The Clearing House, U.S. Bancorp, UBS Investment Bank, Union Bank of California, Vikram Pandit, Wells Fargo Bank
And so the guns come out blazing. The Clearing House Association, another name for all the banks that were bailed out over the past year with the generous contributions from all of you, dear taxpayers, are now threatening with another instance of complete systemic collapse if Bloomberg’s lawsuit is allowed to proceed unchallenged, let alone if any of the “Audit The Fed” measures are actually implemented. Read the full story
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