john paulson went to work on them. and their rallying cry that the rich will pay more in taxes to quote mr. paulson, new york currently has the highest income taxes of any states in the country and thousands of businesses have fled new york to states with no income taxes with states such as florida, texas and nevada or moved off shore. now, i don't think that paulson was hedging, i think he was treading. and adam lashinsky and charlie gasperino. my thanks to charles payne last week, he did such a good job i kicked him off the show this week. and job security. >> some say payne on business. and matt mccall, what do you think of all of this. and to paulson, with an it a threat. >> it's a threat and it's serious about it and he's not the only one. if you think of it in simple math terms. if the taxes remain high, new york obviously the highest in the country and one of the highest in the world compared to other countries and what's the country trying to do, a bank or any other large corporation. trying to make the bottom

growth all that resulted was a huge around trip for that capital minus john paulson's billion dollar fee and that's all that happened and the point is i think these protesters want to know is is that treasonous and of course the answer is is indisputable yes the fact is it doesn't matter because it's continuing on as this article continues neil barofsky the former special prop inspector general for the troubled asset relief program said quote i wouldn't shed too many tears for wall street this. demick advantage that the too big to fail banks enjoyed in the lead up to the financial crisis may be diminished in the near term but the structure is still essentially the same and will certainly help catapult them to record profits and bonuses once the good times return that's true the system as you described it just spinning money through the laundry that is the new york stock exchange creates enormous fees for the money launderers look at again volkova year when volved in a near four hundred billion dollar mexican drug money laundering operation they pay very little five hundred sixty mill

i'm ken paulson. our guest today has written challenging and provocative plays over the past four decades, earning three pulitzer prizes, two tonys, and a reputation for art with an impact. please welcome edward albee. [applause] i was struck by the number of times people have objected to your work. and yet, i've sat here with people whose careers have been marked by censorship and challenges. i'm not sure i've ever met anyone whose very first work at age 12 was censored by his adoptive mother. what was that about? well, you see, i started writing poetry when i was about eight, and she didn't read poetry. but when she found out that i'd written a three-act sex farce... [laughter] at the age of 12, or to be fair about it, probably 12 1/2, though still i didn't know very much about farce and practically nothing about sex at that time-- or at least, my knowledge of sex was singular-- [laughter] i wrote this three-act sex farce. very short acts. each act was about eight or ten minutes. and i'd like to thi

i'm tim paulson, director of the labor council. we have 150 different labor unions in town and there are multiple issues that we're very proud that we have been able to take up over the last few years as president casey has mentioned. i just want to say that it was very historic and as everybody knows the public option and the san francisco health care ordinance that we passed with the levin zero -- levin zero super majority of the board and mayor graven newsome's signing was a very historic day. this is not -- today is not -- even though we have been talking about it for months, today is not the first short period of time we talked about this particular legislation. this was a debate that happened five years ago. this was a debate that was concluded in this historic legislation is on the books. i think we have all been over

i'm tim paulson, director of the labor council. we have 150 different labor unions in town and there are multiple issues that we're very proud that we have been able to take up over the last few years as president casey has mentioned. i just want to say that it was very historic and as everybody knows the public option and the san francisco health care ordinance that we passed with the levin zero -- levin zero super majority of the board and

requirements were met you know this was all established in two thousand and eight remember when hank paulson put a gun to congress and said and got almost a trillion dollars from congress to give goldman sachs's by these now they did the same thing in the euro tarp so this is moral hazard times moral hazard it's moral hazard to the nth degree and the worse you are paying back your loans the cheaper the interest rate gets and the more money you get how do i get that deal in other words let me twice only say however if i were to throw up into a bucket of vomit if i'm part of the top one percent i can take that to the fed and get a billion dollar loan as that as collateral but if i'm in the bottom ninety nine percent all i've got is a bucket to spew. well let's look at the bottom ninety nine percent in this next headline a banner day for the one percent as bank stocks soar this is a commentary from david callaway on dow jones market watch and he says in one of the more bizarre twists of fate that only markets can bestow the occupy movements burst to fame around the world this month has been acc

hank paulson is steadfast in business, fill philanthrope by. and family, and it's a pleasure to introduce a banker who believed in the mission of capital markets, to finance the great american market-based economy, and led his firm as president and then ceo of goldman sachs for 12 years in a time when it was held in great esteem around the world. coming out of chicago to new york city, hank paulson was then welcomed to washington, where he was sworn in to the office of secretary of the treasury by president george w. bush in 2006. he stayed for the harrowing challenges of the financial crisis during the months of peril from stearns, the aim to the government the day after the inauguration of president obama. he turn the treasury over to his comrade in arms, tim geithner, and the grad who worked with him from the new york fed. hank settled into a year of major efforts as he set this. the therapeutic task of writing the first draft of history, the book about the global financial cries called "on the brink." i read the book cover-to-cover in recor

what did he was it continue the bush administration's policies and the things that henry paulson starteda and geithner have finished. >> you mean bill clinton and bob rubin started. >> okay, fine. >> and i'm not big fan of paulson, but that big layer on wall street was a brainchild. >> neil: i think what adam is saying they have little reason. >> how about dodd frank, here is the thing. >> neil: finish that point, quickly. >> he hasn't, he hasn't been a radical so there's a republican primary going ton right now, not a democratic one. >> under stood. >> don't go with obama 2. >> dagen? >> wall street wants to bet on a winner, pure and simple. if they see the tide moving away from the president. >> neil: it's a snapshot, a snapshot in the moment. >> it's a senate shot, but the money goes to the republicans. >> and anybody who wants to make more money should be listening. they had trouble selling out this event to raise a million bucks when, yeah, warren buffett and obama, warren buffett himself in june got 2.6 million just going to lunch with him. that underscores the thing right there. >

welcome hank paulson back to the podium. our speaker brings back fond memories of his time as distinguished visiting scholar and fellow of the bernard schwartz forum on constructive capitalism. from january 2009 to june 2010, he was here, and indeed i remember attending a class on china's financial system, and professor butler had the pressure of introducing the famous secretary paulson to his class months after he departied government. hank paulson is steadfast in business, fill philanthrope by. and family, and it's a pleasure to introduce a banker who believed in the mission of capital markets, to finance the great american market-based economy, and led his firm as president and then ceo of goldman sachs for 12 years in a time when it was held in great esteem around the world. coming out of chicago to new york city, hank paulson was then welcomed to washington, where he was sworn in to the office of secretary of the treasury by president george w. bush in 2006. he stayed for the harrowing challenges of the financial crisis

john, shasaun, keyong, mike casey, steve, tim paulson, gus feldman. please come forward. >> thank you, supervisor campos. i am here today to speak in favor of your legislation, as a worker who has been effected by this loophole. specifically, as someone who really had to fight to get my health care money. i work early this year, for the first six months of the year, for a very well-known, established, made from scratch cafe in bakery in the city of san francisco. i needed a lot of dental work done and was in the position, like so many minimum-wage workers, of not having health care, or so i thought. i found out through a friend about the health care ordinance. i asked my manager about it, and they told me they did not know what i was talking about. so i asked my manager's manager, and they also told me they did not know what i was talking about. so i asked the lady who was in charge of all of these bakeries in san francisco and she told me, no, that does not apply to you. so i ended up going back and forth with the city enforcement agent, and i did en

he is literally just the tip of the spear for a long line of people going back through hank paulson,uben, who have all been doing this. and to the extent to which any president, whether it's president obama, george bush or any of those protesting the banking system, it seems the only referendum that matters is a referendum on who the president is choosing to run the banking system. >> geithner was the architect of the bailout. he and bernanke crafted it when he was head of the fed under bush. and who did obama pick as your treasury secretary? it wasn't one of your liberal friends, it was geithner. >> who says sam's a liberal. who says he has liberal friends? who says he has friends? >> then he re-nominates bernanke too. >> two things. i'm not sure that occupy wall street is that narrowly focused on just the banking industry, frankly. but -- >> although, when you look at what they say on their website, their articulation is pretty explicit. >> i think we know, there are a lot of people and a lot of agendas down there. but with that said, i agree. i think that firing geithner -- but th

paused outside homes belonging to billionaires le oil tycoon david koch, hedge fund manager john paulson ad media mogul rupert murdoch. they'll be hanging on to evn more of their money when the state's 2-percent tax on millionaires expires in december. the "occupy oakland" protess spending a second night at k ogawa plaza. the group's official website says its mission is to "reclaim publc space and mobilize real resistance". so far --no res of any arrests. and the campers at "occupy n francisco" are back in place tonight. police cleared the area in front of the federal reserve building on market street yesterday. but they were back today. we're told another protest is planned r tomorrow morning. the "occupy" protests are te cover story in new yorker magazine's annual money iss. and the cover art is the wof a bay area man. it shows a gloomy urban skyline, appary manhattan, littered with smokestacks and a sphinx-lie bull at the top. berkeley painter, eric drooker is knn for pushing the envelope wih his politically charged pie. his recent work has become e visual standard for the occy moveme

paulson. >> do so with the delores convenience services shelter. i think that i will speak. i would like to talk about what i see as the three priorities that i would look for in a candidate. the first, spanish-speaking ability has been mentioned many times. i do not want to put this other kinds of diversity or demographics, i think this is over all an effort to make this as representative of the committee as possible. i want to mention, leadership skills are something that are needed on the committee. if you compare the way this committee functions, compared to the local homeless coordinating board, in terms of setting up committees and work groups, the sheltering monitor committee could use some leadership to take it in this direction, for the participation. somebody with that kind of experience would be great. and the spirit of collaboration is something that we have seen before and i hope that any candidates coming into the committee would come in with the intention to collaborate in good faith. not the mindset of being on one side or the other. the spirits of collaborat

paulson. >> the wheels in the sky keep on turning. state and federal, i am really yearning the wheels in the sky keep on turning i get better and i am really waiting do not know where i will be writing even tomorrow commissioner mar: thank you. is there anyone from the public that would like to comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, can we move this forward without objection? just informational. ok. please call the next item. >> item 8. introduction of new items. commissioner mar: is there anyone from the public that would like to comment on this item? >> i was here for two meetings in a row and i think it is very important, for those who care, that we really take a look at the roads in the southeast sector, especially water ring the state park by candlestick stadium, going all the way to cargo way. if you care for the public, you cannot encourage bicycle lanes when the roads are in such disrepair. if you go by candlestick park, carroll avenue, new not only have popples, you have raw sewage running on

marched past homes belonging to billionaires like oil tycoon david koch, hedge fund manager john paulson and media mogul rupert murdoch to protest a big tax break they're about to get. a state blanket tax on the wealthy is set to expire in december, and take about 5-billion dollars in annual revenue with it. the protesters want it kept in place. the "occupy oakland" protest is spending a second night at frank ogawa plaza. the group's official website says its mission is to "reclaim public space and mobilize real resistance". tomorrow the protest begins in walnut creek. the "occupy" protests are the cover story in new yorker magazine's annual money issue. the cover art is the work of a bay area man. it shows a gloomy urban skyline, apparently manhattan, littered with smokestacks and a sphinx-like bull at the top. berkeley painter, eric drooker is known for pushing the envelope with his politically charged pieces. his recent work has become the visual standard for the occupy movement. "i am trying to visualize...to the top of the pyramid" drooker's cover work was originally part of a graph

meteorologist, steve paulson, all over tracking this storm. let's go to claudine wong live now in san francisco. forming, claudine. >> reporter: good morning, dave. one right behind me. you can see a tree fell down. that fell down a couple of hours ago. they kind of pushed it off inside. the rain has stopped for now. in the last half-hour, it was really starting to come down here, people throwing on their windshield wipers, pulling out their umbrellas. we want to show you some pictures from sausalito, 2:00 this morning. it looked like a storm drain got dogged up -- clogged up. 3, 4 inches. not a lot but enough to cause a mess and firefighters were cleaning that up. this is south of the toll plaza on 101 headed in the city this morning at 5:00. then we went into san francisco. we found there downed power lines, a power pole knocked out power initially to 700 pipe. at 400 at last count were supposed to come in in about an hour. coming back out here live to san francisco, take a look at the sky. you can actually see the clouds moving i long here.

paulson. for information about this and other ballot measures, go to the san francisco league of women voters website at sfvotes.com. early voting is available at city hall monday through friday city hall monday through friday from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. oh, my! haa ha ha! ha hha ha! [snortg] >> commissioner buell. >> here. >> commissioner lee. >> here. >> commissioner harrison and bonilla have excused absences. >> i want to announce that item three will be heard after item 9. item fiveb will be removed from the consent calendar and heard on the general calendar. >> a few little reminders. if you could please turn off any electronic sounding devices, and we would please ask that you take in the secondary conversations outside in order for the meeting to proceed as soon as possible. if you would like to make general public comments, that's for items not on the agenda. last, please address your comments to the commission during public comment on the items in order to allow equal time for all. ne

paulson. for information about this and other ballot measures, go to the san francisco league of women voters website at sfvotes.com. early voting is available at city hall monday through friday from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. >> i'm melissa griffin, i write about city politics and a member of the league of women voters. i am here to discuss a proposition g, voters will be faced with on november's valid. -- ballot. proposition g would increase the sales tax rate by 0.5% for a total tax rate of 9%. this would only happen if the state does not increase the sales tax by either 1% before november 30, 2011 or 0.75% before january 1, 2015. the city would pass a tax increase to pay for public safety programs and the other half for programs for children and seniors. the city will start collecting this additional sales tax on april 1, 2012. it would apply for 10 years. prior to july 1, san francisco had the sales tax rate of 9.5%. the city decreased by 1% when it allowed to expire. san francisco only gets

david paulson in stride. it was all oregon over colorado 45-2. >>> from the nfl, after all the buzz about carson palmer immediately jumping in as the starter at qb for the raiders, hang on. it likes lik looks like kyle bol start. game time decision. there were reports that the raiders had concerns about palmer making high velocity throws. jackson said that is definitely not the case. >> he's throwing the ball like you wouldn't believe. tuft me, he's out of here. we wouldn't have signed him if he couldn't throw. i think his body's good. i think he's responding. he doesn't seem sore or anything like that. his arm's alive. his mind's alive. he's done a good job. >> in addition to the quarterback question, the raiders have some concerns as far as who's kicking. the regular kicker has a hamstring problem. dave rain r5e rainier has made t of his field goals. of 13 on the season. to the ice now. the sharks continuing on their east coast road trip in boston this afternoon. formeformer bruin joe thornton celebrated hi

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paulson says, we're about to have a catastrophe, give me $700 billion and i'll keep things on track, get things back on track. we don't give $700 billion to one man and say, go fix things. you don't do that in america. that's not what the country was founded for. but it was done. and as i understand it, about $250 billion of the $700 billion is around the amount that hank paulson squandered of the so-called stimulus or the bailout, tarp, whatever you want to call it. and ironically if one wishes to look at things from a political standpoint, it was pretty amazing because a republican administration provided $700 billion to mainly bail out people on wall street who had donated to democrats 4-1 over republicans. so what's so amazing is to hear people talk about these rotten republicans on wall street when the fact is that they give to democrats 4-1 over republicans. so, not only was it absolutely in my mind an immoral thing to do, to take people's hard-earned money and add it to money we borrowed from china and others to bail people out on wall street, that's not the america that was f