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Saturday, September 24, 2011

Book Review: "Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President"


                                           



........."veteran journalist Ron Suskind writes that U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner ignored an order from President Barack Obama to consider dissolving the debt-ridden banking giant Citigroup as part of a reconstruction of major banks in March 2009. Suskind goes on to say that Citigroup was one of several incidents where President Obama’s authority was, quote, “systematically undermined or hedged by his seasoned advisers"..........from democracy now.........

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