The Dow Jones Industrial Average soared above 10,000 again Tuesday, chiefly on the strength of a report that Wall Street executives can do “basically anything they fucking want, whenever they fucking want.”
Former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson testified Thursday before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
President Barack Obama met with the CEOs of some of the nation’s major banks at the White House to ask them for a better pin number for various personal accounts of his.
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger announced that his state will not participate in the year 2010 at all, “and will skip directly to 2011.”
The Commerce Department said Tuesday the Consumer Self-Confidence Index sank to 38.1, an all-time low.
Appearing before the House Financial Services Committee, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke testified that “Ben Bernanke is frankly pretty sick of testifying to committees like these.”
by Rep. Chip Daniels (D-MD)
Mr. Obama said that he knows the move requires patience on the part of the American people, but that it will pay off “when we get super-galactic ratings.”
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner held a press conference today to announce a need on the part of the Treasury for “people good with numbers, figures, economics – things of that nature.”
This parent-child economy only works if there is lending from the parent to the child.