The One Time Sheriff of Wall Street
Airtime: Thurs. May 7 2009 | 7:39 AM ET
Insight on how the financial crisis could have been avoided, with Eliot Spitzer, former New York State governor and Arianna Huffington, The Huffington Post co-founder/editor-in-chief.
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Q: Why do Economists provide estimates of inflation to the nearest tenth of a percent? A: To prove they have a sense of humour.
"The Greek offer is not sufficient and they have to go away to come up with a revised plan," said a spokesman for the German Finance Ministry. The Greeks must first have a plan that satisfies the Germans which this comment states they clearly don't yet and then the Greek Parliament will vote on it this weekend. This said, whatever package gets voted on in Greece is basically an up or down vote on euro membership so we are entering another uncertain weekend for global markets. A failed vote will likely lead to a hard default which may be what...
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May 7th, 2009 at 3:57 pm
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May 8th, 2009 at 12:02 am
I’ve said it before, what he did was illegal. But his lawbreaking is less than a footnote in comparison to the lawbreaking at even ONE of the major banks…why did HE have to leave and not the geniuses in AIG/Citi/BofA/etc
May 9th, 2009 at 10:27 am
This guy was a shameless shake-down artist and hypocrite — his prosecutions as AG didn’t send anyone to jail, but squeezed hundreds of millions of $ from shareholders to NYState. Please don’t aid his attempted rehabilitation.
May 14th, 2009 at 5:43 pm
this guy is the worst check out what they wrote about him on http://www.stonezone.com … Spitzer literally blackmailed Marsh and McLennan Insurance into taking Cherkasky from the bowels of Kroll Investigative Services, owned by M & M, and promoting him to Chief Executive Officer of M & M. When company directors objected to Cherkasky’s lack of insurance experience they were told that Spitzer would not settle fraud charges against the company unless Cherkasky was installed. “No Cherkasky -no settlement,” one director told me directly.