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yellowcanine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-20-07 01:30 PM Original message |
Why is Alan Greenspan getting a media pass on the subprime mortgage crisis? |
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Captain Angry (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-20-07 01:36 PM Response to Original message |
1. Leave him alone. He's doing a book tour. |
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yellowcanine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-20-07 01:50 PM Response to Reply #1 |
8. They could have punished banks who made too many bad loans by |
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Captain Angry (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-20-07 02:01 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. The Fed does not hold oversight over banks. |
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yellowcanine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-20-07 02:06 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. Not directly, no. But Greenspan meddled in areas where he had no formal control. |
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Captain Angry (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-20-07 02:11 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. I disagree. I don't think he had any ability to do so. |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-20-07 01:37 PM Response to Original message |
2. $$$$$ |
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underpants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-20-07 01:37 PM Response to Original message |
3. Cult of personality |
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electprogdems (271 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-20-07 01:37 PM Response to Original message |
4. because it is never never never |
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Cha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-20-07 01:43 PM Response to Original message |
5. Because mediawhores are sucked |
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dmallind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-20-07 01:48 PM Response to Original message |
6. Because monetary policy is a tangential issue here? |
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Clanfear (260 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-20-07 01:48 PM Response to Original message |
7. Probably because it has nothing to do with him. |
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yellowcanine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-20-07 02:01 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. Greenspan wasn't shy about issuing warnings about things that he had |
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Zorra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-20-07 02:13 PM Response to Original message |
13. Because he is a RW republican, and the media is owned by RW republicans |
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Doctor_J (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-20-07 02:14 PM Response to Original message |
14. None of the media whores lost their houses |
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indepat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-20-07 02:38 PM Response to Original message |
15. Greenspan, a name that will live in infamy |
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OHdem10 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-20-07 02:52 PM Response to Original message |
16. Corporate Journalists would not be too smart to attack Corporate |
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