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    Potential Treasury Secretary Sheila Bair Is A "Woman To Watch"
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    11/10/08

    In reply to Potential Treasury Secretary Sheila Bair Is A "Woman To Watch"
    OK, I don't undestand why banks wouldn't want to help the people who have mortgages they can't pay at the current rate get into one they could pay. Wouldn't that give the people who lent the money a more consistent stream of money rather than months of no payments? Yeah, people shouldn't have gotten into something they couldn't afford but these banks needs to take some of the credit for lending to people who didn't have a way to pay them back.


    The more I hear about Sheila Bair the more I like her. She's realistic and logical.

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    11/10/08

    In reply to Potential Treasury Secretary Sheila Bair Is A "Woman To Watch"
    "She's shown you can be concerned about consumers and not skimp on your job as a regulator"


    What is Barney Frank smoking. It is the job of regulators to be concerned about consumers. (Not that they necessarily are in practice, but...) The FDIC exists to protect depositors' money; the SEC exists to protect investors; FERC protects energy consumers...

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    11/10/08

    @pantsless economist: and yeah, i also realize regulators are also charged with promoting competitive markets but still! consumer protection is a huge part of the job description, and he acts like it isn't
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    11/10/08

    @pantsless economist: Sigh. I'm glad it frustrates you, too.
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    11/10/08

    In reply to Potential Treasury Secretary Sheila Bair Is A "Woman To Watch"
    I really hope she is Obama's choice for Treasury, and she makes sense for what his priorities are supposed to be.


    Larry Summers, beyond his sexist assholery (a huge count against him in my book), is way, way too friendly with Wall Street. I suspect his ideas will be more of the same and the last thing the country needs.

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    11/10/08

    In reply to Potential Treasury Secretary Sheila Bair Is A "Woman To Watch"
    She and my nana have the same fiscal policy. I wonder if we will get a twenty in our July 4th cards too.
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    11/10/08

    @PandaGrrl: My dad's fiscal policy is occasionally sending me a check for $15 and writing "NOT FOR BEER" in the memo line.
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    11/10/08

    @morninggloria: I got one like that except the memo was, "last one til you stop smoking".


    You can keep your $20, dad. Smoking got me through college.

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    11/10/08

    @PandaGrrl: Dude, you get cards and money on the 4th of July? We get a lecture about blinding ourselves with fireworks.
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    11/10/08

    @Spaceman Bill Leah: Smoking kept me awesome from age 18-24.
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    11/10/08

    @morninggloria: the oppposite of my mom who sends me a $20 and says "buy decent booze!"
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    11/10/08

    In reply to Potential Treasury Secretary Sheila Bair Is A "Woman To Watch"
    *smart woman swoon*


    Yes, please!

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    11/10/08

    In reply to Potential Treasury Secretary Sheila Bair Is A "Woman To Watch"
    Well, she is a woman and I am a woman. So, I like her.


    Sorry, I just need to go check my manual and make sure that's right....

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    11/10/08

    @Archetype: You have your manual? I ripped mine up in a fit of PMS rage when it told me that PMS rage made me irrational.
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    11/10/08

    @Archetype: As my French Canadian grandmother would say, Ecoute, toi! She is a smart lady who is informed. Therefore, you should like her.
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    11/10/08

    @BrutallyHonestBabes: everytime someone talks about a manual, it's my jackassy time to shine and say, "Que? You want a manual? Let me go get my brother--HIS NAME is Manuel."


    It totally doesn't work on the interwebs.

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    11/10/08

    In reply to Potential Treasury Secretary Sheila Bair Is A "Woman To Watch"
    Squee! Obama as our first fscal realist President!


    (I have appointed myself, btw, head of the ABLS movement - Anyone But Larry Summers.)

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    11/10/08

    @PilgrimSoul: Can I be your first deputy?
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    11/10/08

    @morninggloria: You missed some fun times in Crappy Hour this morning about how he's not really sexist, he's just been misquoted!


    (Also, p.s., I don't like anybody who's super-chummy with the Wall Street set.)

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    11/10/08

    @PilgrimSoul: Carefuly Dear Leader, I am amongst the Wall Street set.....


    But I do hate Larry Summers.

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    11/10/08

    @morninggloria: (So am I, technically.)
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    11/10/08

    @PilgrimSoul: Whew. I always feel a little Benedict Arnold-y with all my Wall Street haterade while working in a "Wall Streety" place.
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    11/10/08

    @morninggloria: Where's marin79 when you need her?
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    11/10/08

    In reply to Potential Treasury Secretary Sheila Bair Is A "Woman To Watch"
    I didn't think the "Bair" market would last this long.
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