What If Big Media Became a Systemic Risk?

By: emptywheel Thursday March 26, 2009 1:30 pm

There were two interesting questions Tim Geithner didn’t answer today. Whether he knows of another systemically large non-bank that might fail, and what would happen if GE Capital posed a systemic risk.

Did Chuck Todd Ask about Sacrifice because He’s Been Asked to Sacrifice?

By: emptywheel Thursday March 26, 2009 8:54 am

Turns out that Chuck Todd has probably been asked to hold off on any pay raises he has gotten recently. Maybe that’s why he’s so insistent that Main Street “start” making sacrifices.

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