Posts tagged white house

• Skepticism within the Federal Reserve and The Languidly Observant White House

  Paul Kiesel | June 11, 2008 9:16 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Since the rescue of Bear Stearns, there have been dissenting views within the Fed that have suggested the governmentisinducing more risk takingby lenders.The Richmond Fed President, Jeffery...

• Joe Biden, an Op-Ed Reply, and The Wall Street Journal

  Paul Kiesel | May 23, 2008 7:24 PM | 2 CommentsLos Angeles, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Below is a response to Joe Lieberman's Op-Ed in The Wall Street Journal from this past Wednesday. To read the original Lieberman article click here: Joe Lieberman. One of Joe Biden's main points,...

• Washington Post: The Bubble - An Excellent Survey of the Subprime Lending Debacle

  Paul Kiesel | June 16, 2008 8:37 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  This past weekend, The Washington Post began a three-part series that examines all of the avarice, pride, and myopic lending during the subprime boom. Overall, the series, written by Alec Klein...

• President Bush, Wyeth v. Levine & Ethex's Morphine Sulfate: Consumers Beware!

  Paul Kiesel | November 19, 2008 6:15 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  As President Bush does his best to rewrite federal rules aimed at pre-empting product liability litigation (50 rules that would govern product-liability laws from motorcycle brakes to pain medicine,...

• Paul Krugman is on the Edge

  Paul Kiesel | February 06, 2009 7:53 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  As the economy remains stagnant or contracts into a more depressing declivity, reports of the number of job losses from January coming in and continuing to rise (600,000 and counting; not to mention...

• Bush and the Economy or Beating a Dead Horse

  Paul Kiesel | December 23, 2008 7:20 PM | 2 CommentsLos Angeles, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  The New York Times published an article Sunday that broadly examines President Bush's role in our current economic turmoil (how Mr. Bush and his administration held the country's hand and led us...

• NYT: Bush Aides Hurry to Pass Contentious Labor Department Rule

  Paul Kiesel | December 02, 2008 2:25 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  President Bush has said that he wants to work with President-elect Obama to make the transition process as smooth as possible. Logically, this makes sense for the greater good of the country,...

• Obama Names Economic Dream Team

  Paul Kiesel | November 24, 2008 3:28 PM | 1 CommentLos Angeles, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Earlier today, at a press conference in Chicago, President-elect Barack Obama called for sound judgment and fresh thinking in addressing the nation's economic crisis, which he described as a...

• Greenspan on the Financial Crisis: "I Made a Mistake..."

  Paul Kiesel | October 24, 2008 3:56 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  The former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan, who was once considered by many economists and government officials to be an infallible maestro of the financial system, was hammered yesterday on...

• The Real Bush Legacy

  Paul Kiesel | October 15, 2008 4:08 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  As President Bush's approval ratings continue to slide (the most recent Gallup Poll shows W. with a 27 percent approval rating), a stealth effort is being coordinated at the highest levels of the...