... it had been a moment ago. Reports have been coming out left and right that the U.S. Treasury Dept. plans to delay the intended Dec. 1 deadline that poker ... part due to the delay in voting on the many bills facing congress right now that would either countermand the UIGEA or make it moot. So, in other words, the Treasury Dept. wants to save itself a lot of trouble and potential lawsuits by giving it ...

Weird. The Treasury Department had an anonymous, off-the-record meeting with financial bloggers including Michael Panzner and Yves Smith. That's kind of like Homer Simpson inviting nuclear physicists to discuss the Springfield power plant. Needless to say, the physicists left with bemused puzzlement but no new information, and Homer didn't retain much beyond a donut daydream.

... that GS has driven Bear Stearns, its biggest competitior, out of business by misusing its power over the Dept. of Treasury and the Federal Reserve, GS has reached the stage where it is a dangerous monopoly under our nation's antitrust law. The Justice Dept. is legally obligated to take these banksters to court in order to break up this monstrosity for once ...

... launched his career at consulting firm McKinsey, which also produced DOE senior adviser Matt Rogers. At another point in his career, Silver served as an adviser to the secretaries of Commerce, Interior and Treasury under president Bill Clinton. VentureBeat is hosting GreenBeat, the seminal executive conference on the Smart Grid, on Nov. 18-19, featuring keynotes from Nobel Prize winner Al Gore ...

... the New York based Alavi Foundation. Prosecutors accuse the foundation of funneling millions of dollars to Iran's state-owned Bank Melli through a front company called the Assa Corporation. The U.S. Treasury accuses the bank of supporting Iran's nuclear program and has banned U.S. citizens from doing business with the financial institution. A Muslin rights group, the Council on American- ...

Mark Hilbert NH Dept. Of Safety State investigator stalked and was charged with stalking a homeowner in Dublin over her generator being hooked up during the NH ice storm because the main breaker was accidentally left on back feeding to the power line grid. No one was harmed. The state had received hundreds of reports of people who had hooked up their generators this way due to shortages of parts ...