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Dueling Fiscal Cliff Deceptions

Posted on December 5, 2012

A fog of misinformation has settled on the fiscal cliff, as both House Speaker John Boehner and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner have traded conflicting, misleading and false statements in recent days on the president’s deficit-reduction plan: Geithner falsely claimed on “Fox News Sunday” that the president’s proposals to slow Medicare …
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Obama White House ‘Full of Wall Street Executives’?

Posted on February 29, 2012 , Corrected on March 1, 2012

A conservative group exaggerates the number of “Wall Street executives” in the Obama White House. In a major TV ad buy, the American Future Fund lists 27 people it claims are part of “Obama’s Wall Street Inner Circle.” But the ad is either flat wrong or greatly exaggerated in more …
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Geithner’s GDP Whopper

Posted on July 28, 2010

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner made a false claim about the size of government spending being proposed by the Obama administration. On NBC’s "Meet the Press" July 25, he said the president is proposing spending "as a share of our economy" that is "lower" than it was during the Bush administration …
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‘Blame Dodd’ Attacks Ignore Facts

Posted on March 19, 2009

Some Republicans have been quick to blame Democratic Sen. Chris Dodd of Connecticut for allowing big bonus payments to AIG executives. They get the facts backward. The public record shows Dodd authored an amendment that would have prevented “any bonus” being paid to top executives of firms getting bailout money …
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