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...problem actually predates Yushchenko - Ukraine ranked 122nd in Transparency International's 2004 ratings.) "Since 2005, they have been accusing each other and members of their teams of corruption, an inability to manage the state properly and all other mortal sins," he added. "Not only are the Ukrainian people fed up with this, but [so too are] a lot of Ukraine's partners in the world...
...years ago. "The taxpayers have not been vocal enough before. They are just spending our money." Licata attended the Tea Party rally in Phoenix on April 15 and knew the cause was the right one for him. "That was it for me," says Licata as an 18-wheel Fed Ex truck sounds a loud horn in support of the Tea Party group. "I want the politicians to represent the people and not the special-interest lobbying groups," Hoelscher says. "That's the real issue for me. I am afraid for my children's future. My children absolutely deserve the same...
...wouldn't say they blew him off," said one Treasury aide.) Geithner has opposed proposals to tax Wall Street bonuses as well as financial transactions, infuriating the left. And he made quite a few of those how-can-we-help calls to floundering bankers when he was at the Fed, providing a juicy target for the right...
...also making cagey references to his lack of influence with Obama, for whom he was chairing an obscure economic-recovery board. Congressman Paul Kanjorski says that last March, when he pitched Volcker on a plan to let regulators break up big banks that threatened the financial system, the former Fed chair said, "I'm out of vogue right now in the White House ... but I agree." Volcker secured his walk-on-water reputation by taming runaway inflation in the late 1970s, jacking up interest rates and ignoring intense public pressure to reverse course. His grandpa-in-the-attic status...
...terrorists in fancy suits. The problem is that on an issue this complex, with so many contentious provisions and alternative proposals floating around, naysayers are always going to be able to find a populist excuse to say nay. For example, some in both parties have turned to Fed-bashing, trying to strip the agency's regulatory powers and opposing Chairman Ben Bernanke's nomination for a second term. Who knows? In 2010, "Bailout Ben" could be just as potent a populist issue as "financial reform...