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From the Washington Post piece today (2/15/11) about TARP inspector general Neil Barofsky’s resignation: “We’re fine with critics,” said one Treasury official, who spoke on condition of anonymity in order to speak more candidly. “[But] he’s been consistently wrong about a lot of big things.” That’s a prettyserious charge to level atsomeone–which is probablywhy you’d […]
A Tiny Revolution blogger Jonathan Schwarz (7/9/09) has posted a reminder that “back in March Phillip Swagel, who’d been assistant treasury secretary under Hank Paulson, wrote a long article about the TARP bailout called ‘The Financial Crisis: An Inside View.’” Thinking that maybe “it would be news if Swagel had stated that Paulson, Bernanke and […]
Looking back over how corporate “media abandoned any pretense of objectivity in pushing the original TARP back in the fall,” when “they eagerly pushed the story that the economy would collapse if the TARP did not pass,” Dean Baker (Beat the Press, 3/28/09) recalls how “media never told the public that the Fed had the […]
