Epstein Secrets

requirements for systemically risky financial institutions. Last week, Governor of Governors Ben Bernanke quoted from the same talking points: "Mr. Bernanke said the Fed could push banks to maintain a higher leverage ratio, hold certain types of debt favored by regulators, or other steps to give the lar

re were thirteen US Embassies that had been attacked killing several hundred people. Where was these same outraged Republicans? As Mark Shields and David Brooks said last Friday during PBS' Newshour when host Judy Woodruff asked how would they compared Watergate to the "scandal" hearings of the past week. M

illing of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke about the risks and fairness of having banks that are "too big to fail." Warren (D-Mass.) questioned Bernanke during his latest semiannual appearance before the Senate Banking Committee to discuss the economy and monetary policy. Warren pressed the Fed chai

des" false equivalency of shying away from telling the truth about the GOP's suicide mission, pretending the same thing is happening on both sides (David Brooks's pathetic attempt to draw a false equivalency was so loathsome, he felt the need to walk back his characterization of the president's position the n

quire Merrill Lynch in a deal that cost taxpayers $20 billion. In a three-hour hearing of the House Oversight and Gov- ernment Reform Committee, Bernanke denied threaten- ing to oust Bank of America CEO Kenneth Lewis or the bank's board members if they abandoned the takeover after discovering spira

dita.The Palm Beach Post. P.O. Box 24700, West Palm Beach. FL 33416-4700. • EFTA00259942 • THE PALM BEACH POST • WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10.2009 St David Brooks Cautious at heart Sonia Sotomayor had bad timing. If she'd entered col- lege in the late-lari0s or early-1960s, she would have been surrounded b