Archive article: Fed to prop up Wall St (2001)

fishertrop · Post by **fishertrop** » 30 Dec 2005, 10:14

Fed to prop up Wall St
Sunday September 16, 2001

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Artic ... 05,00.html

A secretive committee - the Working Group on Financial Markets, dubbed 'the plunge protection team' - includes bankers as well as representatives of the New York Stock Exchange, Nasdaq and the US Treasury. It is ready to co-ordinate intervention by the Federal Reserve on an unprecedented scale.

Thanks to a poster on OIlcast.com for the old link.

Interesting to see how the MSM report such issues, tho it seems to have gone largly unnoticed at the time....

fishertrop · Post by **fishertrop** » 30 Dec 2005, 10:16

And another post-9/11 story that seems to have gone quiet...

Tomgram: The Forgotten Anthrax Attacks of 2001

http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=43459

Within the last year, the ongoing investigation of the case has, according to the Washington Post, been significantly downsized. The number of FBI agents assigned to it has dropped from 31 to 21 and postal inspectors from 13 to 9. Many of those remaining are now said to be "in the process of taking inventory. The FBI and postal inspectors have spent months piecing together a voluminous internal report that will review the scope of the investigation?" It has "cold case, dead file" written all over it.

Post by **mikepepler** » 30 Dec 2005, 10:59

A related article from another thread, about the "plugne protection team" preparing for a big intervention in the next few months:
http://www.financialsense.com/fsu/edito ... /1226.html