Wall Street Journal News

Former Goldman Banker Using WSJ To Attack Consumer Agency Head

9:49 am EST March 20th, 2011 | Conservative, Economy | 3 Comments

Let’s connect the dots here. Someone who worked at the center of financial crisis, is given space in the premiere conservative/Republican newspaper, they attack the head of the one financial agency within the government designed to protect consumers from the Goldman Sachs of the world. Conservatives are brilliant and diabolical.

A Wall Street Journal editorial writer who has been closely involved with the paper’s recent attacks on Elizabeth Warren is a former Goldman Sachs banker. The same editorial writer, Mary Kissel, is readying another piece critical of Warren and the new consumer agency, according to a source familiar with the coming article.

Like most major newspapers, the Journal does not disclose the authors of its editorials. Kissel recently appeared on the John Batchelor radio show as a representative of the Journal’s editorial board to discuss Warren, and repeated the main arguments used in the editorials.

The editorials paint both Warren and the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as an immensely powerful, unaccountable organization. The nascent agency is assuming the consumer protection duties currently exercised by regulators at the Federal Reserve and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.

The author, Mary Kissel, worked for Goldman between 1999 and 2002 as a fixed income research and capital markets specialist.

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Wall Street Journal Joining Establishment Effort To Kneecap Palin?

12:19 pm EST January 3rd, 2011 | Media, Politics, Republicans | 3 Comments

I’m not sure about that, but it’s pretty odd to see the Wall Street Journal editorial page come out in defense of Michelle Obama versus Sarah Palin:

“Health-care reform on an individual basis is often just this simple: We could save a lot of money and a lot of grief by making smarter choices,” Mrs. Obama said recently. “It starts by ending destructive habits and beginning healthy habits in eating and exercise.”

Sorry, our mistake—that was actually Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, in her 2009 State of the State address. Mrs. Obama’s campaign is grounded in similar sentiments, and in that sense is unusual for this White House in emphasizing personal responsibility. The first lady has also so far eschewed the coercion of the public health lobby, like junk food regulation and taxes and advertising restrictions.

I’ve got no doubt the Wall Street Journal would easily prefer a business Republican like Romney over a Sarah Palin type, not just because Romney is more electable but because their ideological priorities are more in line.

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James Taranto Is Stupid

10:19 am EST April 23rd, 2010 | Conservative | 4 Comments

It literally burns up my monitor.

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Wall Street Journal’s Murdoch Transition Complete

10:09 am EST March 28th, 2010 | Media | 14 Comments

Murdoch’s WSJ puts a picture of the NY Times publisher in an article on feminine men.

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WSJ Goes Fox

12:29 pm EST December 14th, 2009 | Media | Comments Off

Combative, catty, press relations are standard from Fox News and I guess now from the Wall Street Journal. Just think, pretty soon Rupert will pull the WSJ from Google and make the paper irrelevant!

Bonus.

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Murdoch’s Paper

5:28 am EST March 4th, 2009 | Media | 6 Comments

So, sketchy nonsensical work masquerading as economic research? Check. The Wall Street Journal joins the other Murdoch papers around the world filled with excrement.

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