http://schizoamerica.com/2010/03/old-white-men-repubs-in-congress-go-after-boys-girls-club-of-america-for-high-executive-compensation-wall-street-ceos-who-got-huge-compensation-and-ran-america-into-the-ground-repubs-kinda-sil/ You have to walk your talk, America Sun, 20 May 2012 23:27:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://schizoamerica.com/2010/03/old-white-men-repubs-in-congress-go-after-boys-girls-club-of-america-for-high-executive-compensation-wall-street-ceos-who-got-huge-compensation-and-ran-america-into-the-ground-repubs-kinda-sil/comment-page-1/#comment-1178 » Disaster and Denial Tue, 27 Mar 2012 14:10:59 +0000 http://schizoamerica.com/?p=3270#comment-1178 [...] Greenspan: Market Crisis "Will Happen Again" (huffingtonpost.com) Image via Wikipedia By PAUL KRUGMAN When I first began writing for The Times, I was naïve about ma...a.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/USA_2008_unemployment_by_county.svg/300px-USA_2008_unemployment_by_county.svg.png" alt="U.S. map with counties labeled by FIPS code ac..." width="300" height="190" />Image via Wikipedia By PAUL KRUGMAN When I first began writing for The Times, I was naïve about many things. But my biggest misconception was this: I actually believed that influential people could be moved by evidence, that they would change their views if events completely refuted their beliefs. And to be fair, it does happen now and then. I’ve been highly critical of Alan Greenspan over the years (since long before it was fashionable), but give the former Fed chairman credit: he has admitted that he was wrong about the ability of financial markets to police themselves. But he’s a rare case. Just how rare was demonstrated by what happened last Friday in the House of Representatives, when — with the meltdown caused by a runaway financial system still fresh in our minds, and the mass unemployment that meltdown caused still very much in evidence — every single Republican and 27 Democrats voted against a quite modest effort to rein in Wall Street excesses. Let’s recall how we got into our current mess. Read more . . . [...] [...] Greenspan: Market Crisis "Will Happen Again" (huffingtonpost.com) Image via Wikipedia By PAUL KRUGMAN When I first began writing for The Times, I was naïve about ma…a.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/USA_2008_unemployment_by_county.svg/300px-USA_2008_unemployment_by_county.svg.png" alt="U.S. map with counties labeled by FIPS code ac…" width="300" height="190" />Image via Wikipedia By PAUL KRUGMAN When I first began writing for The Times, I was naïve about many things. But my biggest misconception was this: I actually believed that influential people could be moved by evidence, that they would change their views if events completely refuted their beliefs. And to be fair, it does happen now and then. I’ve been highly critical of Alan Greenspan over the years (since long before it was fashionable), but give the former Fed chairman credit: he has admitted that he was wrong about the ability of financial markets to police themselves. But he’s a rare case. Just how rare was demonstrated by what happened last Friday in the House of Representatives, when — with the meltdown caused by a runaway financial system still fresh in our minds, and the mass unemployment that meltdown caused still very much in evidence — every single Republican and 27 Democrats voted against a quite modest effort to rein in Wall Street excesses. Let’s recall how we got into our current mess. Read more . . . [...]

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