S&P Downgrade: Ex-Obama Adviser Christina Romer Says U.S. ‘Pretty Darn F**ked’

This Week’s Catch-Up
Posted By DEADLY CLEAR 

Huffington Post reported on August 6, 2011: Ex-Obama Adviser Christina Romer Says U.S. ‘Pretty Darn F**ked’

On the same night that Standard and Poor’s downgraded the United States’ top-level credit rating for the first time in history, Christina Romer, former chair of Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers, didn’t mince words when asked of downgrade’s potential consequences. 

The U.S. is “pretty darn f**ked,” Romer said during a segment on Real Time with Bill Maher called “How F**ked Are We?”, after Maher asked what the new could mean for the U.S. economy. Continue reading

A Call to Action – Geithner Must Go!

Last week, undercover, [we] the government bought the servicing rights to 400,000 Bank of America bad loans – quoted as the worst loans and this is just a pittance of what Countrywide and Bank of America wrote during the subprime catastrophe that collapsed the American economy. Apparently, with very little forethought [we] the government agreed to “buy” these servicing rights that will on average cost an additional $10k – $50,000 to service, maintain and/or foreclose. Who was behind this imbalanced deal? Continue reading