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7. Hey, I have to put the headline that the WaPo used...

Reply to maddezmom (Reply #5)

Thu Jul 12, 2012, 10:02 PM

Jul 2012

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Geithner drawn into Libor scandal [View all] MrMickeysMom Jul 2012 OP

Why are you implying he did something wrong? pnwmom Jul 2012 #1

Maybe it's this passage... MrMickeysMom Jul 2012 #6

Geither had just been appointed in 2008, and it sounds like he gave reasonable advice. There is no pnwmom Jul 2012 #14

Was it his role to "give advice"? MrMickeysMom Jul 2012 #20

Absolutely. pnwmom Jul 2012 #22

I guess I see the banking industry as having no national boundaries... MrMickeysMom Jul 2012 #24

I totally agree... SkyDaddy7 Jul 2012 #34

Agreed. I'm no fan of Geithner, but that's a sloppy headline. bluesbassman Jul 2012 #8

1) NY Fed knew for at least a year before any sort of memo was sent. 2) Nothing was said publicly. leveymg Jul 2012 #51

Um, that headline is a bit misleading tularetom Jul 2012 #2

''....he proposed remedies that would end those manipulations...'' DeSwiss Jul 2012 #9

If you know that he knew of specific crimes, when did you know? muriel_volestrangler Jul 2012 #13

For fuck sake... MrMickeysMom Jul 2012 #16

I think I can; but others here are making up their own facts muriel_volestrangler Jul 2012 #31

Disagree.. I think that is a narrow understanding of Geithner's role... MrMickeysMom Jul 2012 #39

Good point. Psephos Jul 2012 #26

Lately it's become the ''standard defense''...... DeSwiss Jul 2012 #30

He wasn't the Libor police, he was head of the NY Federal Reserve tularetom Jul 2012 #28

I wasn't aware I was making anything sound like anything other than the facts. DeSwiss Jul 2012 #29

Where have you pulled "he discovers that Barclays is not giving accurate information" from? muriel_volestrangler Jul 2012 #32

Excellent quote from "Waltzing at the Doomsday Ball"..Joe Bageant KoKo Jul 2012 #42

De Nada. DeSwiss Jul 2012 #45

The general movements were down : not up. dipsydoodle Jul 2012 #33

The LIBOR rates where illegally fixed downward because..... DeSwiss Jul 2012 #44

The movements were down to support their balance sheets dipsydoodle Jul 2012 #46

Sure they were ''supporting'' their balancesheets.... DeSwiss Jul 2012 #48

And by the way dipsydoodle Jul 2012 #47

I got that impression too Enrique Jul 2012 #21

how dare he try to solve the problem years before it became a scandal! unblock Jul 2012 #3

Is that Justice I hear knocking??? DeSwiss Jul 2012 #4

Justice?? Never in our lifetime.n/t truth2power Jul 2012 #11

shitty headline n/t maddezmom Jul 2012 #5

Hey, I have to put the headline that the WaPo used... MrMickeysMom Jul 2012 #7

hehe...there are no mods anymore just hosts maddezmom Jul 2012 #10

Well, to that, I'll just say that we should all keep following this... MrMickeysMom Jul 2012 #18

But the OP gives the distinct impression that you think the article indicates he did something wrong drm604 Jul 2012 #12

I am and always have been suspicious of Timmy... MrMickeysMom Jul 2012 #15

Just to repeat, totally bullshit headline BeyondGeography Jul 2012 #17

What would your headline have been? MrMickeysMom Jul 2012 #19

Not playing BeyondGeography Jul 2012 #23

"Drawn in".... MrMickeysMom Jul 2012 #25

The $200 billion bail-out for predator banks and Spitzer charges are intimately linked midnight Jul 2012 #27

Geithner has cost Obama a ton of votes, IMHO. Hubert Flottz Jul 2012 #35

Trollish misleading headline notwithstanding.... scheming daemons Jul 2012 #36

new WaPo headline: Geithner made recommendations on Libor in 2008, documents show maddezmom Jul 2012 #37

It suggests more... MrMickeysMom Jul 2012 #40

The New York Times has a non-shit headline for this story WilliamPitt Jul 2012 #38

Yep, that was a better headline, more information with the same conclusion... MrMickeysMom Jul 2012 #41

Agree...those readers here who are informed on the financial KoKo Jul 2012 #43

Barclay's received hundreds of billions in US taxpayer bailout money... Octafish Jul 2012 #49

That was quite an article... MrMickeysMom Jul 2012 #50