Katie Llanos-Small is the founding editor of foreign-correspondence.com. She graduated from the University of Auckland (New Zealand) in 2005, with a degree in Political Studies and Latin American Studies. She also studied Chinese (Mandarin) and Arabic at university. Recently Katie spent a year studying advanced Spanish and teaching English in Madrid. Currently she is studying towards a Graduate Diploma of Journalism from the Auckland University of Technology. Her main areas of interest include global migration and refugee issues and the politics of underdevelopment.
By Katie Llanos-Small, March 20th, 2008
What do Elliot Spitzer and Ben Bernanke have in common?
Greg Palast reckons that Spitzer aggravated important people with his meddling in the affairs of banks which were throwing around cash at sub-prime mortgages.
Have a look at this story and ask yourself how the media got wind that Spitzer was throwing around cash at expensive hookers.
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March 24th, 2008 at 4:12 pm
Thanks for the link Katie. Very interesting indeed. I wonder how much more public money is about to be thrown at the USA financial sector to save it from the crisis it alone has created. I’m watching Paul Krugman with much greater interest these days…
(http://topics.nytimes.com/top/opinion/editorialsandoped/oped/columnists/paulkrugman/index.html)
April 25th, 2008 at 6:13 am
[…] Sexing up the recession What do Elliot Spitzer and Ben Bernanke have in common? Greg Palast reckons that Spitzer aggravated […]