I’m sitting in the Cafe at the Common Market store in Frederick, MD, where I shop on Wednesdays for the discount to buyers over 60. This is the best organic/vegan food source near our home in Shepherdstown and I have a great time shopping here.
On the way down, I listened on C-Span Radio to Geithner and the House Committee that he was testifying before duke it out over the TARP funding and why AIG got 100% monies while other sufferers got 3% or 5% monies… stuff like that. There also seems to be a large contingent on both sides of the aisle working on Geithner’s connections to Goldman Sachs which apparently made out like bandits on the federal funding deal and didn’t do anything to change their approach to the market. Of course it doesn’t help that Geihtner and Bernanke and a lot of the other “federal” folks involved were ex-Goldman Sachs employees. It sure looks like a stinky setup.
Lunch here at the Cafe, with free Wifi (albeit really slow) let’s me check in on e-mail and such and it looks like a lot of my friends are not buying Geithner’s babble. Can’t wait to see if he’s still going as I head back home. The Vegan Tofurkey Reuben was great, too.
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