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Report: Biden Admin Issued Sanctions Waiver on Arms Sales to Arab States Day Before Withholding Weapons From Israel
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
FDIC chair faces calls to resign after reports of rampant sexual harassment at bank regulator
[NYPOST] Martin Gruenberg, the chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, is facing an influx of calls to resign after a blistering, 234-page report released Tuesday revealed widespread sexual harassment and other misconduct plaguing the federal bank regulator.

The damning report, which was released by law firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and was prompted by a Wall Street Journal investigation in November, did not find that Gruenberg alone was responsible for the FDIC’s toxic workplace.

However,
alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk...
"we do recognize that, as a number of FDIC employees put it in talking about Chairman Gruenberg, culture ’starts at the top,’" the report said.

Cleary Gottlieb also documented several instances in which Gruenberg — who’s served as FDIC chair since 2023, but has been a leader at the agency since joining its board in 2005 — lashed out at subordinates, "particularly when being delivered bad news or conveyed views with which he disagrees."

The incidents have created an atmosphere of fear at the firm, where staffers hold back on delivering potentially upsetting news to Gruenberg, CNN
...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for...
earlier reported.


Posted by: Fred || 05/10/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [111 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Well, now that Harvey Weinstein's cell is empty...
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/10/2024 9:45 Comments || Top||

#2  A report like this gets released every few years, i meme sometimes: Party Like a Banker.
Posted by: mossomo || 05/10/2024 12:32 Comments || Top||

#3  Scrooge McDuck is getting his kink on.
Posted by: Super Hose || 05/10/2024 12:55 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Biden claims inflation was 9% when he came into office — when it actually was 1.4%
[NYPOST] President Biden claimed Wednesday that voters were wrong to blame him for high inflation because it "was 9% when I came to office" — when in fact it actually was just 1.4%.
Can he remember that far back… about anything?
"No president has had the run we’ve had in terms of creating jobs and bringing down inflation, It was 9% when I came to office — 9%," Biden told CNN
...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for...
’s Erin Burnett in a rare interview.

The 81-year-old president defended his economic policies after Burnett pressed him on the fact that "voters by a wide margin trust [former President Donald] Trump more on the economy."

Biden insisted ahead of his November rematch against Trump that he already "turned around" the economy, despite persistently high inflation and interest rates.

Inflation crept up shortly after Biden took office before surging to rates unseen since the early 1980s, peaking at an annual rate of 9.1% in June 2022 — 17 months after he took office.

Inflation has remained stubbornly high at an annual rate of 3.5% as of March.

Related courtesy of Frank G: Biden tells a lie a minute during CNN interview

Posted by: Fred || 05/10/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [229 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ...that he already "turned around" the economy

Yep - he turned it around, then bent it over...
Posted by: Raj || 05/10/2024 1:01 Comments || Top||

#2  When Joe came into office in Jan 1973 the inflation rate was 3.6% and one year later in Jan 1974 it was 9.4%….. I am sensing a pattern here.
Posted by: Airandee || 05/10/2024 1:31 Comments || Top||

#3  They fact check Trump from the day he was born. Fake news is worse than every. Biden is given a pass every day in our own slavish medias.
Posted by: Dale || 05/10/2024 6:01 Comments || Top||

#4  ^ And their answer to the public's lack of trust in their garbage propaganda is "disinformation bureaus."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/10/2024 7:26 Comments || Top||

#5 

Could it be, to allow the LSD Media to use this 9% phony claim, to make the Biden Admin inflation rate look lower than it really is?

Based on the real consumer staple goods prices and shrinkflation.
The current 3 year (2021-2024) actual inflation rate appears now at around 18%.

Posted by: NN2N1 || 05/10/2024 8:28 Comments || Top||

#6  Maff be hard. And Rayciss. And disinformation.

But most of all very inconvenient to concocted narratives.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/10/2024 8:31 Comments || Top||

#7  Reality has never been Biden's strong suit. Or even a passing aquaintance, for that matter.
Posted by: ed in texas || 05/10/2024 8:34 Comments || Top||

#8  Every day is Brandon's first day in office.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/10/2024 10:16 Comments || Top||

#9  A liar since 1973. No plans to stop now.
Posted by: Super Hose || 05/10/2024 12:54 Comments || Top||

#10  Truth is, most likely, he doesn't have a clue what he is saying. He was placed into the office with few qualifications and fewer votes.
Posted by: JohnQC || 05/10/2024 12:57 Comments || Top||

#11  I believe it was 9% while he was in office...

Perhaps he does remember that.
Posted by: Bobby || 05/10/2024 18:51 Comments || Top||



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