Une commission sur la crise

Le Blogo se demandait avec William Black pourquoi il n'y avait pas de commission sur la crise. Et bien on en prend le chemin: Nancy Pelosi va demander à ce qu'une enquète soit mise en place sur le modèle de la commission Pecora* en 1929. Bloomberg News s'interroge immédiatement sur la portée réelle que peut avoir cette enquête vu l'organisation de la "structure de pouvoir". On se demande en effet...

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Members of Congress may be reluctant to tackle the recommendations of such an inquiry because of financial industry donations to political campaigns, said Wall Street historian Charles Geisst.

Financial services has been the biggest contributor in every U.S. election cycle in the last 20 years, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a Washington research group that tracks campaign money. Its individual and political action committee donations in 2007 and 2008 totaled $463.5 million, compared with $163.8 million from the health-care industry and $75.6 million from energy companies.

Goldman and Citigroup

Individual and PAC donations from Goldman Sachs Group Inc. which totaled $30.9 million, and Citigroup Inc., at $25.8 million, were higher than those from any other company except AT&T Inc.’s $40.9 million over the last 20 years, the center’s compilation of Federal Election Commission data shows.

“How can you seriously propose a law when you’ve been taking money from ‘The American Poodles for Wall Street’ or whatever fund for the past 10 years,” said Geisst, a professor of finance and economics at Manhattan College in New York and author of “Wall Street: A History” (Oxford University Press, 488 pages, $24.99).