{"id":1588,"date":"2009-03-28T22:20:10","date_gmt":"2009-03-29T02:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=1588"},"modified":"2009-03-28T22:25:29","modified_gmt":"2009-03-29T02:25:29","slug":"william-greider-confirms-taibbi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2009\/03\/28\/william-greider-confirms-taibbi\/","title":{"rendered":"William Greider Confirms Taibbi"},"content":{"rendered":"

Follow this link<\/strong><\/a> to William Greider’s appearance on the Bill Moyers’ show.<\/p>\n

Although they do not acknowledge the Taibbi article in Rolling Stone, ‘The Big Takeover\u2019 (on AIG-Fin\u2019l Products)<\/strong><\/a>, I think they are confirming the worries that he raised.<\/p>\n

The irony of not acknowledging the Taibbi story is that you really won’t understand Greider’s concerns unless you have read the Taibbi story.<\/p>\n

I am now beginning to think that the real disservice that Paul Krugman has been doing in his criticism’s of President Obama’s bailout plans, is that Krugman has been too vague about what really concerns him.\u00a0 By just claiming that Obama\/Geithner are just furthering the Paulson plan of “Cash for Trash”, he has made it too easy to dismiss his criticisms.<\/p>\n

Not until I read the Taibbi article did I start to get the picture of what the real problem is.\u00a0\u00a0 I was even fooled by the second half of the Charlie Rose Show of March 23. I blogged about this in The Pros and Cons of the Obama Rescue Plan<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

I now see how I may have been taken in by the resignation letter of the AIG Financial Products Vice President. See my blog entry The Other Side of the AIG Bonuses Story<\/strong><\/a>. At least I was smart enough when I wrote the blog to say that I could not attest to the truthfulness of what was in the letter.\u00a0 I called it food for thought.\u00a0 I am beginning to think that this letter is not digestable.<\/p>\n

I also ought to acknowledge that in one way or another, Richard H has been trying to tell me some of this stuff for years. I am really glad that he posted the blog item about the Taibbi story.\u00a0 I also was too dismissive\u00a0 of Richard H’s post Karl Denninger\u2019s ‘Open Letter to the Ombudsman\u2019 on the PPIP<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

It is even getting to the point where I may actually have to pay attention to what Ron Paul has been saying.\u00a0 He is the Republican Presidential Candidate in the last election whose main point was the damage that the Federal Reserve was doing to our country. I am not sure if he was right for the right reasons or right for the wrong reasons, but perhaps he was right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Follow this link to William Greider’s appearance on the Bill Moyers’ show. Although they do not acknowledge the Taibbi article in Rolling Stone, ‘The Big Takeover\u2019 (on AIG-Fin\u2019l Products), I think they are confirming the worries that he raised. The irony of not acknowledging the Taibbi story is that you really won’t understand Greider’s concerns […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1588","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1588"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1591,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588\/revisions\/1591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}