Comments on: Can you impeach a Treasury secretary?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:08:00 +0000

What is most amazing to me is how blatant the theft was. Usually they cover theirs tracks better.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:59:00 +0000

How is what Stephen Friedman did not the most blatant, open-and-shut case of Insider Trading imaginable? Yet the SEC goes after a nosey Sri Lankan guy whose firm was capable of gathering information from people working at a few select firms and then trading on that.

Clearly it helps to be politically connected and incredibly wealthy.

By: Keith

Keith — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:42:00 +0000

Geithner is a dishonest lackey and not to be trusted. It blows my mind, the kind of garbage these people have perpetrated. These people need to be in jail.

This bailout everybody program is terrible. The point of capitalism isn’t just profits. It’s losses to keep the idiots in check.

By: Andrew_M_Garland

Andrew_M_Garland — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:06:00 +0000

Can we subpeona Geithner’s copies of TurboTax? It would be interesting to see the fields that he has manually overridden.

By: Justin P

Justin P — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 04:28:00 +0000

If you cannot (or will not) buy some legislators and some lobbyists, then you cannot compete effectively.

That’s the essence of the problem right there. We don’t need any more regulations or any more laws or compensation czars, we need the government out of Wall Street and out of the board rooms. There is not market discipline anymore thanks to the culture of bailouts. It’s only a matter of time, when the house of cards comes crashing down again. Only this time, will the dollar be strong enough to weather the storm?