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Posts Tagged ‘Robert Scheer’

Roubini and Taleb: Government’s Socialization of Losses Is Destroying the Real Economy

In an essay last month, Nouriel Roubini wrote:This is a crisis of solvency, not just liquidity, but true deleveraging has not begun yet because the losses of financial institutions have been socialised and put on government balance sheets. This limits …

“The Federal Government Works for Goldman and Not for Us”

Veteran reporter Robert Scheer writes today:The federal government works for Goldman and not for us.Is Scheer’s claim over the top?Well, the assistant secretary of the Treasury under Reagan (and former senior Wall Street Journal editor) Paul Craig Robe…