Geithner agrees to new currency
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U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner responded yesterday to Chinese and Russian calls for a new international reserve currency with a proposal of his own:
March 26th, 2009 at 8:00 am
[...] WAS BOUND TO HAPPEN: Geithner agrees to new currency. It’s made in China, [...]
March 26th, 2009 at 8:18 am
It’s too bad that Geithner doesn’t have a staff. Then he could really screw us over.
March 26th, 2009 at 8:32 am
Tax cheat, tax czar Geithner needs to go. This supposed erudite is such an egghead that the term useful idiot doesn’t even apply to him anymore. Odumba’s response is an in-house code, that yeah, the US after all, will comply with China’s proposal to eliminated the “devalued” dollar and replace it with the almighty dong.
March 26th, 2009 at 8:34 am
I’m all for it, as long as they increase the number of ‘Go To Jail’ cards.
March 26th, 2009 at 8:35 am
why is pjmedia using Politico’s feed, especially Ben Smith’s article(s)? These are the same useful dummies responsible for helping Odumbass’ ascendancy to the powerful throne known as POTUS.
March 26th, 2009 at 8:57 am
In monopoly, the players never get bailed out when they go bankrupt, and you can’t get a subprime mortgage to buy houses.
March 26th, 2009 at 9:02 am
[...] Krumm reports that Geithner countered the Chinese/Russia call for a new currency [...]
March 26th, 2009 at 9:30 am
Mister Snitch,
They will but the only people going to jail will be those refusing to use the new currency.
March 26th, 2009 at 10:02 am
Geithner apparently claims to have been unaware of Chinese finance ministry concerns dating from at least last fall, then goes off the deep end with a less than careful response to questions about the currency? This guy needs some assistance fast.
Are these undersecretary jobs at Treasury a new set of “jobs Americans won’t do”? The other day, I watched Robert Kuttner sneeringly suggest that it would be relatively easy to replace all the FP division people at AIG. And yet his boys in DC can’t even fill out Treasury? Maybe Congress could issue a few emergency H1B’s to some really smart Chinese and Indians to come give us a hand. Gawd! Even some of the Europeans are sounding more sensible than our DC financial overlords these days.
What a circus. We’ve seen the clowns. Where are animal acts?
March 26th, 2009 at 10:03 am
You know, as I think about it, it seems that all these people who “had to drop out” of the choice list for various staffing positions may have been a ruse. Think about it…so long as Geithner is the only one actually working, there’s nobody there to keep him from doing what he wants, or blow the whistle on something, or offer pushback. If Geithner is really Another Manchurian, this makes perfect sense. On a related note, Geithner’s parents and Obama’s mom worked together in Jakarta – coincidence? I think not.
March 26th, 2009 at 5:01 pm
#6 “P” opines:
“you can’t get a subprime mortgage to buy houses.”
Subprime Monopoly? That’s farking brilliant! All we need now is some workable variation of the original rules.
March 26th, 2009 at 5:44 pm
“Who shall rid me of this troublesome Secretary?”