Summary: Repurchasing Market (Repo), the debt ceiling, and Obama's protecting banks over the domestic economy - with Mike Whitney. Mike Whitney is a finance scholar and journalist specializing in the domestic and European economics and America’s handling of the economic crisis. He is an associate researcher for the think tank Global Research in Quebec, and his writings frequently appear on Counterpunch, Global Research.ca, Dissident Voice, Market Oracle and other independent news sites. He is a contributor to the volume “Hopeless: Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion.”
