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- Cody Willard is an anchor on the FOX Business Network. Willard is also the principal of an investment management company.
He was a long-time featured columnist for the Financial Times and TheStreet.com as well as a regular featured economist and stock picker on CNBC's ''Kudlow & Company."
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jay
Was the best investment AIG made,the campaign contributions to Obama and Dodd.A few hundred grand to their campaign gave them a return of billions .Thats better than the Clintons did
Laura Pivonka
Question to Senator Gregg: Why did you vote for the Banking Bailout Bill, when there is NO ACCOUNTABILITY with the FED? Will you be a co-sponsor to HB 1207 for opening the FED's books? If not, why not??
TCInTampa
Can you get Rebecca replaced by one of the smart, hot Fox anchors?
John Krohn
When are you going to start doing your !@#$%!%#@ job and stay the !@#$!@# out of mine. How many years have you sat by, watching the winds of socialism, overspending, run-away deficits and any number of other things just happen before you without so much as a wimper and now suddenly you are on my side. OK - here is the question. "Sen Gregg - For the last 16+ years the congress has failed to take an activist regulatory position and has allowed the current recession to take place. We have created an economic disaster of historical proportions because of the poor job our elected representatives have done. What is the solution for the average voter? Is it pitchforks or term limits? We know voting does not help because my vote has the same equal weight as someone with no skin in the game and has their hand out for a portion of my pay. On a similar note, has congress decide what the root cause is of the current recession (we would like to know what your reality is versus ours) and what you intend to do to prevent this from happening again?"
Doug
Will Congress be returing the stipends ($93,000) that each one of them received during the meltdownIf you count the sentors the amount equals $45,105,000. Ask him if AIG is required to return the money how about them plus 2/3 of their salaries? It has been 10+ years since a politician has earned their value in work completed to the betterMENT of the american citizen.
CarlaJ
The administration and congress thinks giving the banks all these billions that the money will trickle down to the consumers, but I don't think it will. This has been tried too many times and failed, and it will fail this time. Why can't the money be given to the people and let it trickle up. The money would come near trickling up, because the people would pay off mortgages,other debt, invest,and spend into the economy. The consumers is 2/3"s of the economy.
Dan From Texas
Treasury just made a 1 trillion bet with taxpayer money to remove bad loans off of banks books.The taxpayer has all the risk! Why not allow private investors to buy these bad assets at an auction and not pay capital gains on the profits. They would also have the ability to take tax deductions for any losses incurred. By investors I mean everyone. This way no taxpayer money is at risk and Federal Reserve does not need to print any new money.
Jay Willard
Please do not send more money to Gaza. Please no more bailouts and please, please no control for the Treasury to seize non-financial banks.organizations because who knows what they will seize and what definition they will use to do this in the name of the government. NO ACORN TAKING CENSUS. WE, THE ELDERLY DO NOT WANT TO GIVE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION TO THESE PEOPLE BECAUSE WE DO NOT KNOW WHERE THIS INFORMATION WILL END UP. The census says they will report in an honest fashion--------whoa here, were they not suppose to follow the laws and regulations and verify signatures when they were rectuiting votes for the elections (or should I say Obama)?
chuck kovach
by the end of this June , the econmoy will have lost over 6 mill jobs , all in the private sector .Since no jobs are being lost in the gov. sector , what impact does that have for the country, the taxpayer and to the Republican party ?
Dianne
Please ask Senator Gregg if he is at all considering running for President in 2012. He would have my vote.
jim burke
Please ask the Senator to cut back foreign aid and let's feed, cloth and give jobs, money to Americans first
Wendy
I would love to hear a straight answer as to why the SEC refuses to suspend mark-to-market rules. This whole financial fiasco could have been avoided without spending a dime if they had done this 15 months ago. Eventually there will be a market for those toxic assets. And someone might have even made money in the process. Now, however, some bureaucrat will be determining when we, the taxpayers, should sell them and at what price. Sure bet we won't make any money back on that deal! When was the last time you saw our government run a business with a profit?
wmw
Would we not be better off to pass an amendment giving the people of this country the right to Initiative, Referendum, and Recall on a national level? I have a feeling this would be the communists worst nightmare.
Gregory Trees
Cody: For Senator Gregg: Is the bleeding stoped at Freddie & Fanny? What tax liabilities remain with future foreclosures?
Bob Coleman
The initiatives of Congress need to address specifics of how to get Americans working again. When everyone's working, the country prospers and there's no need for piling on more social and welfare programs, and the government gets the money it needs from fair and reasonable taxes on income of workers. Congress needs to focus on how to return jobs to the US from overseas, where the Clinton administration and Democrat led Congressional efforts pushed them since the 90s. When are they going to give serious consideration to reversing NAFTA and instituting incentives for businesses to use US labor? That loud sucking sound that Ross Perot warned about has been sucking jobs out of the US ever since NAFTA was implemented, yet we hear absolutely nothing from Washington about correcting this problem.
Judy
Why hasn't the mark to market been changed. We heard for months this might help and there was an implication that it was a matter of regulation within the SEC. Is this true.
Mike
Cody, Please ask the notable why our government is stealing from us. Our Countries founders fought a war over less than this disgusting, ruinous boondoggle.
Dan
Wasn't TARP surpose to get the toxic assest from the banks? WHy are we going ahead with a bad bank system?
Joyce
Thanks for providing this "Venue to Vent". I am wondering if the toxic asseet purchasers should be vetted because I am worried that the same people who have already benefited from donating to Obama's campaign are going to come in with "strawmen" and newly formed hedgefunds with a front man. I think you should ask Senator Gregg if the Republicans should form a Vetting Commitee that has to be informed up front of who is purchasing everything. I am sure both you and I would be happy to be on the committee if the Senators are too busy going to lunch to read things. Thanks again. Love the show and I am demanding that my daughter's college roommate go to your show and waive from the background. She PROMISED she would go this week.
Robert
Cody, Senator Gregg has made his position clear (that Obama is on the right track to save banks, auto makers and insurance companies deemed "to big to fail"). Like all professional politicians, he is adept at "answering" difficult or embarrassing questions. If you must ask him something, then ask him about New Hampshire's position on the tenth amendment to the U.S. Constitution and NH's recent attempt to pass a resolution stating such.
Meg, Maryland
Is Senator Gregg aware of the number of people attending the grassroots "tea parties" that are taking place around the country? The folks attending are generally not overtly political by nature so the fact that large groups of people are coming together looking for confirmation that they are not crazy about their fears of the current outrageous spending and the future trillions of spending, should be speaking volumes to legislators.
EF Diehl
I think this is what is going to happen - sort of like the savings & loan mess of the late 80s: We the taxpayers are going to buy over-valued real estate at the over-valued price. BTW, who sets the prices? Sounds like a good place for corruption. Then our government will discount the real estate and sell it for whatever the market will bear. This appears to be the only "easy" way to finally get this stuff back to market price. I would say that we might expect to recoup 50% of the trillion - less, of course, expenses which will probably amount to $500,000,000. Whatdaya think?
needlenut
How in the hell does he look himself in the mirror when he votes for the theiving package in January and then yesteday said it was going to bankrupt the country? HOW DO WE PUT A STOP TO THIS MADNESS!? Yes! the country is going to be bankrupt but not down the road, probably this year and most certainly next and for years to come we will all be paying the price for their not listening to US, THE AMERICAN VOTER. And guess what? We actually DO KNOW MORE THAN THEY; I ACTUALLY USE FOX NEWS TO FIND OUT. OH, and by the way, I want ALL MY MONEY BACK; STARTING OVERSEAS, then autos and then whoever else got any. You think you're mad; I'M MAD !
Tom
Ask him how to initiate a Term Limit requirement on congressmen. It seems that one of the main drivers behind this mess is members of congress being in the pocket of special interests. If we limit them to one or two terms it is less likely they will become corrupted, or, at least not be able to do as much damage after they are.
Larry Adams
Keep it going Cody Will the congress be asked to give back the money given them by AIG. And will any company receiving money from the government be stopped from giving to poliical causes and to anyone running for a office. They should be stopped. Boy will that change the congress mind. So many crooks calling the kettle black