Why Obama/Geithner Policies Lack Integrity...

William Black's interview in this weekend's 

Barron's as well as his appearance last week on Bill Moyes Journal serves as a great book end to Simon Johnson's Atlantic article.

Choice quotes from the Barron's interviews:

"His plan essentially perpetuates zombie banks by mispricing toxic assets that were mispriced to the borrower and mispriced by the lender, and which only served the unfaithful lending agent.

We already know from the real costs -- through the cleanups of IndyMac, Bear Stearns, and Lehman -- that the losses will be roughly 50 to 80 cents on the dollar. The last thing we need is a further drain on our resources and subsidies by promoting this toxic-asset market. By promoting this notion of too-big-to-fail, we are allowing a pernicious influence to remain in Washington. The truth has a resonance to it. The folks know they are being lied to."

"With most of America's biggest banks insolvent, you have, in essence, a multitrillion dollar cover-up by publicly traded entities, which amounts to felony securities fraud on a massive scale.

These firms will ultimately have to be forced into receivership, the management and boards stripped of office, title, and compensation."

"The government is reluctant to admit the depth of the problem, because to do so would force it to put some of America's biggest financial institutions into receivership."

Make no mistake, Obama is not doing so badly on rest of the issues, but when it comes to dealing with the financial sector, the performance so far has been deeply disappointing and disturbing.