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The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Bailout bill du jour) calls for the launching of a new website, Recovery.gov. The site is now live.
According to the website:
Recovery.gov is a website that lets you, the taxpayer, figure out where the money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is going.
We’ve spoken about the launch of Obama’s [...]

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (The bailout bill of the week) calls for the launch of a new Recovery.gov website. The website is to be managed by a newly created Recovery Act Accountability and Transparency Board. Its purpose is to provide transparency to the public as to where and how their tax [...]

Larry Summers’ company, D.E. Shaw, announced this week that it has frozen client withdrawals.
Summers, who was tapped to lead President Obama’s White House National Economic Council, served as a managing director to the hedge fund up until the announcement of his cabinet appointment.
D.E. Shaw Co, is a New York based hedge fund with a [...]

President-elect Barack Obama introduced his principal national-security Cabinet selections to the world Monday and left no doubt that he intends to start his administration on a war footing. Perhaps the least well known among them is retired Marine Gen. James Jones, Obama’s pick for national security adviser. The position is crucial—think of the power that [...]

Timothy F. Geithner
Obama Cabinet Position: Treasury Secretary
Political Party: Democrat
Career: Ford Foundation, Kissinger and Associates (Major Lobbying Firm), IMF, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Under Secretary of Treasury under Larry Summers and Robert Rubin.
Member: Bilderberg Group, Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission
Notable Events: In 2007, he brokered the sale of Bear Stearns to JP Morgan [...]