@Chasten That was certainly original.

@lorenmtaylor Keep going. We need an honest and effective government in Oakland.

@RupertLowe10 Can't they move to Pakistan to keep the family together if that's their desire?

@lisamurkowski Thank you.

@rttate1 @CynicalPublius @Ami_Marisol That's too bad. I was surprised mine didn't and the screener told me (the first time after surgery I flew) that titanium doesn't trigger it. But at least you know in advance it's always going to happen.

@rttate1 @CynicalPublius @Ami_Marisol Depends on the metal used. Titanium won't set it off.

@CynicalPublius @Ami_Marisol If it's titanium it won't set off the screening machines. It depends on the metal used.

@CynicalPublius @TGalloy That's great.

@CynicalPublius Glad it went well. Joint replacement surgery is one of the most successful procedures to radically improve a person's life.

Interesting. I was thinking more like the way passthroughs need to be fully understood from one entity until it reaches the final beneficiary. Certainly that's what the government requires when you invest in private equity. Why wouldn't that also be applied logically to see how money flies from the government to NGOs through the spaghetti web of downstream NGOs from there.

I just want a full accounting of where the money went, particularly as it passes from one NGO to another. It's obviously been built to hide actual funding. Some of that, or even a majority of that, may be to hide covert spending to influence politics in another country. That could be good or bad for US interests. Certainly what was done in Brazil to hinder free speech was a negative and contrary to US interests by helping Lula win.

We don't know that because we don't know fully where the money goes. As for the consumer protection agency, that task should be in the DOJ and should not be independently funded by the federal reserve. And particularly obnoxious is their MO seeking large settlements and having them said to left wing interest groups instead of the US Treasury. They're both rife with corruption and need to be restructured.

You're a great economist and generally non partisan in your analyses. Your fairly recent analytical paper on the true rate of inflation was spot on. But I'm continually disturbed that you took a large "consulting fee" from a hedge fund prior to joining the Obama administration. I believe, if my memory is correct, that this kept you from becoming Treasury Secretary under Obama so you became his National Economic Advisor which didn't need to go through confirmation hearings. Do I have this right? Can anyone confirm that that's correct or if I didn't capture that correctly?

@LHSummers @nytopinion Remind me again how much you got paid as a consultant to a hedge fund immediately before you joined Obama's administration?

@pk13510 Because they're all amazed and can't believe how their expectations have been vastly exceeded.

@BigVTN @cturnbull1968 It's all they have left. That and Russia Russia Russia. But that's a hoax as well.

@lindyli @ShawnRyan762 You've got new friends. Real ones.

@ScottPresler Let's see if we can get Nevada to a majority.

If they bail them out it will not be due to the small dollar deposits. It will be an independent decision based on both politics and a view on fallout in the rest of the banking business (which would be nil since there are no other chartered banks dedicated to holding crypto currencies. So what does that have to do with FDIC insurance? Nothing.

@BillKristol You do know the checks are going to stop coming if they haven't already. So no reason to keep prostituting yourself.