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What more can the Fed do ?

…a proposal of $ 5 trillion new Fed liabilities issued. The actual QE2 as announced was one tenth that much. I don’t think that much huger operations would have a…

Fannie and Freddie and William Black

…(CRA), Congress’ rejection of an administration proposal to give OFHEO greater supervisory powers, specifically, the power to place Fannie and Freddie in receivership, the ability of Fannie and Freddie to…

…the sacrifices necessary…

…is also worth mentioning that the Post’s consensus on reducing the deficit excludes the proposal from the IMF for more taxes on the financial sector. Insofar as taxes on the…

SSA Scoring of Rivlin-Domenici

…10:43 AM PST it wasn’t. Because just like the SSA score of the Chairmen’s proposal there is a lag between release and web publication. I’ll extract some tables and publish…