in the remote village of about 300 I lived in they would spout the most appalling stuff about their families as long as they still managed to go outside

and of course it should read that I can imagine them drinking not that I can’t – there are women who have the right to attend and also some who can against all nature’s odds hold their drinks well, but what do they do when the guys move to the brothel? and I can’t imagine that the Icelanders have not had one or several brothels ready for such illustrious visitors. But maybe the brothels have adapted and accomodate conference attending women now also one way or another

http://www.cfr.org/bios/3373/carla_a_hills.html

http://www.theglobalist.com/AuthorBiography.aspx?AuthorId=26

This is interesting — “she was a partner at Munger, Tolles, Hills, and Rickershauser of Los Angeles” So was her husband Rod. Rod was SEC Chairman from 75-77. Munger is Charley Munger, Warren Buffett’s partner. These people are ancient, but apparently still causing us grief.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carla_Anderson_Hills

(And to Madeleine Albright too http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeleine_Albright)

But, does this include all loans or just mortgages? Seems like all we need is to get this around the blogosphere, then set a date. Could this be the beginning of the end of the plutocracy? Sounds like a good start.

Wonder what Simon & James think about debt repudiation?

http://www.counterpunch.org/auerback08142009.html

actually there were some (very few) but a lot, I mean really a lot, who could acquire that label after the war claimed to have been in “inner emigration” during the more than 12 years of the 1000-year-Reich
- all of your objections to Geithner & Bernanke up to here reminded me of that “narrative” – they have been in inner emigration and only now with their present position of power can they come into their own, prove their worth etc.
- at the same time while reading I was reminded of the Peter-Principle, remember? everybody gets promoted until he reaches his level of incompetence therefore I hope for all of us, that B&G are not there yet

https://www.ing-diba.de/kundenservice/produkte/gesamtangebot/#jumpkr

I checked their American site http://www.ing-usa.com/us/index.htm and could not find an equally prominently displayed link for loans, I surfed around a bit and still have found nothing except a site that seems overall to be a lot more confusing and containing high-flown praise advertising language than the German site does
The first impression is that for an American it is as complicated taken care of your bank account as it is for me understanding the ifs and whens and hows of our offers for mobile phone contracts.

So, presumably this Agency would add another 10-20,000 lawyers (complete with pensions) to the Federal Payroll. But what would this bunch of lawyers do? There are a lot of buzzwords in the wind here .. like “financial products”, “financial innovation” and “unfair practices”.. but often there isn’t much “there” “there” in the language chosen to describe the problem.

What exactly will the employees of the Consumer Protection Agency do that will make our lives better? And what is that they can do that Congress can’t?

Don’t get me wrong, but Ben Bernanke has his hand full always, and there is no reason to create additional pressures to take action with potential negative ramifications vis-a-vis your central mission. DO NO PUT THE FED IN CHARGE OF CONSUMER PROTECTION, PERIOD!!!!!