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About emptywheel
Marcy Wheeler is an independent journalist writing about national security and civil liberties. She writes as emptywheel at her eponymous blog, publishes at outlets including Vice, Motherboard, the Nation, the Atlantic, Al Jazeera, and appears frequently on television and radio. She is the author of Anatomy of Deceit, a primer on the CIA leak investigation, and liveblogged the Scooter Libby trial.
Marcy has a PhD from the University of Michigan, where she researched the “feuilleton,” a short conversational newspaper form that has proven important in times of heightened censorship. Before and after her time in academics, Marcy provided documentation consulting for corporations in the auto, tech, and energy industries. She lives with her spouse in Grand Rapids, MI.
Entries by emptywheel
Edward Liddy’s Pitch in the WaPo
/15 Comments/in Economics/by emptywheelEdward Liddy’s op-ed in the WaPo reveals two significant details: those contracts were negotiated at least as early as March 17, 2008, just in time for AIG’s public confession that AIGFP was FUBAR. And the real issue here is not the contractual obligation to the banksters, but the risk still present in the CDS strategies.
The Geithner Master Plan To Recover The AIG Bonuses
/92 Comments/in Economics, Obama Administration/by emptywheelPretty much the only news this week has been outrage over the bogus bonuses paid to individuals in the AIG Financial Products division (yes, they have already been paid) and discussion among the political class as to how to remedy the situation. The moment we have all been waiting for has arrived: Tim Geithner has announced his master plan. Sounds like he stole it from Gomer Pyle.