+1 And apparently a number of foreign countries as well.
Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 10:11 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: The Fed Audit [OT] Free economies self-correct - and ours is not free. If it were, AIG and lots of other operations would have gone bankrupt. This report is just one more confirmation of that. Kurt On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 07:03, Andrew S. Baker <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Economies do *not* self correct, however. They only appear to do so under the threat of something else happening. When left alone, money congregates -- it does not disperse. ASB http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market… On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Michael B. Smith <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: The fed, at its core, is (in my opinion) socialistic in the extreme. Economies need to self-correct. The fed attempts to stop that, and (again in my opinion) makes things worse. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -----Original Message----- From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 9:38 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: The Fed Audit Dean should *love* this: "The Fed Audit" http://sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=9e2a4ea8-6e73-4be2-a753-62060dcbb3c3 The rhetoric in the press release is rather sensationalist, but the fact that the Federal Reserve loaned out $16 trillion to prop up banks and businesses is none-the-less interesting. The full GAO report is 266 pages long but the introduction paints a picture of an organization with likely conflicts of interest, no transparency, and little oversight. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
