Slog (Free subscription) | yesterday
His personality alone has been begging for a New Yorker profile for some time, but now that he's become chairman of the House Committee on Financial Services during the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression, Barney Frank is practically required writing. And voila , currently making the political rounds: a new Jeffrey Toobin profile of Frank in the current New Yorker...
Long or Short Capital (Free subscription) | yesterday
From a WSJ article on Madoff’s fraud: Barney Frank, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, which will have influence over how Congress writes financial market oversight this year, offered a more sympathetic posture toward SEC staff, saying he had spoken with enforcement officials in Boston and elsewhere. “There’s no suggestion that any of them were [...]
APM: Marketplace (Free subscription) | yesterday
Congressman Barney Frank chairs the House Financial Services Committee and has been leading bailout negotiations with the White House. Kai Ryssdal speaks with Frank about what happens with the rest of the bailout money, regulating Wall Street and Obama's stimulus plan.
NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 06/01/2009
"Good Morning America" news anchor Chris Cuomo on Tuesday actually challenged liberal House member Barney Frank over how Congress has spent the bailout money. At one point, after the host implored Frank to think of the American taxpayers, the irritated congressman commanded, "I'm sorry, sir, but- I'm sorry, if you keep interrupting we cannot have a coherent conversation." Frank...
Inner Banks Eagle (Free subscription) | yesterday
at 'Distortions' of Chris Cuomo on ABC by Scott Whitlock - January 6th, 2009 - NewsBusters "Good Morning America" news anchor Chris Cuomo on Tuesday actually challenged liberal House member Barney Frank over how Congress has spent the [first] bailout money. At one point, after the host implored Frank to think of the American taxpayers, the irritated congressman commanded, "I'm...
VOT3R (Free subscription) | 06/01/2009
"Good Morning America" news anchor Chris Cuomo on Tuesday actually challenged liberal House member Barney Frank over how Congress has spent the bailout money. At one point, after the host implored Frank to think of the American taxpayers, the irritated congressman commanded, "I'm sorry, sir, but- I'm...
Contrarian Musings (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Barney Frank is proposing placing limits on the use of the second $350 billion tranche of TARP money (via WSJ Real Time Economics blog): 1) Substantial efforts to reduce foreclosures, including a version of a proposal pushed by Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Sheila Bair to give incentives to lenders to make loans more affordable. 2) Require [...]
YID With LID (Free subscription) | yesterday
If Congressmen got a report card, Barney Frank's would say "does not play nice in the sandbox with the other children" To understand the congressman you must understand that there are two types of people, those who agree with him and and those who distort the facts and are too stupid to understand the truth. One of my favorite TV moments of 2008 was his battle with Bill O' Reilly, today's...
Wizbang (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Last month I noted an unusual exchange Massachusetts Democrat Barney Frank had with Treasury Secretary Paulson regarding the use of the first $350,000,000,000 (that's billion, for the comma challenged) authorized...
Payment News (Free subscription) | 05/01/2009
This week's New Yorker magazine has a profile written by Jeffrey Toobin of Rep. Barney Frank titled "Barney's Great Adventure." Frank is, among other things, currently the chairman of the House Committee on Financial Services.
Real Time Economics (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D., Mass.) sent a memo to other lawmakers Wednesday laying out his plan to place limits any future use of money from the Treasury Department's Trouble Asset Relief Program, known as TARP. Rep. Frank acknowledged in the memo that many members were frustrated at the way the Bush administration handled the program and promised...
Towleroad (Free subscription) | yesterday
... fees to immigrants for helping them file fraudulent asylum applications." The New Yorker profiles Barney Frank : "For the first time in more than forty years of public life, Frank has real power, and he is wielding it in a characteristically idiosyncratic manner. He remains a national symbol of outré sexuality as well as a rare wit in generally humor-deficient Washington."...
TMZ (Free subscription) | yesterday
Filed under: Prez Election 2008 The congressman from Massachusetts only had one piece of advice for the stars who can't get their grubby little mitts on a ticket to the Obama inauguration ... "run for Congress!"Maybe Scarlett Johansson can score an extra ticket from Roland Burris.... Permalink
bjkeefe (Free subscription) | yesterday
The New Yorker has a profile of Barney Frank up. I've just started reading it, and couldn't resist passing this along: Not long ago, Paul Begala, the political strategist, was speaking at a fund-raiser for a gay-rights group and said, “When I told my father, back in Texas, that I was speaking to an L.G.B.T. group, he said that sounded like a sandwich.” From the audience, Frank...
THE BIG FEED (Free subscription) | 03/01/2009
Barney Frank sings to the tune of ABBA. I laughed.
