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Fixing Wall Street Won't Fix Our Economy
Group: mn.politics · Group Profile · Search for laissez in mn.politics
Author: Zaroc Stone
Date: Sep 19, 2008 13:34
... to the border. And we need new corporate rules of the game that make big business accountable to communities and workers, not just greedy investors. Wall Street and conservative economists have insisted that, in our laissez faire system, everyone is on their own. The poor were left on their own, to fend for themselves against twisted economic structures backed by the biggest institutions on Wall Street. Washington never left Wall ...
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Is the 'Good Life' as America Knows it Over?
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Author: Zaroc Stone
Date: Sep 19, 2008 13:28
... Senators (not to mention armadas of state and local officials). Since the political establishment was committed to laissez-faire, legerdemain by greedy bankers was immune from public scrutiny, which was also useful (for them). But... investment bank, Lehman Brothers, go under. Some may see in this a steely return to a laissez-faire faith. More likely, it represents wholesale confusion on the part of Bush administration and Federal Reserve ...
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Re: Lehman Bankrupt, FF Nationalisation & Corporate Welfare Bailouts
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Author: Sean
Date: Sep 18, 2008 00:35
...Uncle Sam Well, that begs the question doesn't it? We are re-learning the Herbert Hoover era dilemmas Well, we should but we aren't in fact. Hoover was far, far from a laissez-fairest. In fact his actions were perfectly designed to worsen the Depression, e.g. raising taxes, imposing high tariffs, tightening the money supply. FDR, your hero, marched in and made matters even worse. ...
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Re: Lehman Bankrupt, FF Nationalisation & Corporate Welfare Bailouts
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Author: Paul
Date: Sep 17, 2008 09:59
...Uncle Sam Well, that begs the question doesn't it? We are re-learning the Herbert Hoover era dilemmas Well, we should but we aren't in fact. Hoover was far, far from a laissez-fairest. In fact his actions were perfectly designed to worsen the Depression, e.g. raising taxes, imposing high tariffs, tightening the money supply. FDR, your hero, marched in and made matters even worse. ...
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Re: Lehman Bankrupt, FF Nationalisation & Corporate Welfare Bailouts
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Author: Sean
Date: Sep 16, 2008 20:14
... Uncle Sam Well, that begs the question doesn't it? We are re-learning the Herbert Hoover era dilemmas Well, we should but we aren't in fact. Hoover was far, far from a laissez-fairest. In fact his actions were perfectly designed to worsen the Depression, e.g. raising taxes, imposing high tariffs, tightening the money supply. FDR, your hero, marched in and made matters even worse. Fred ...
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Re: Lehman Bankrupt, FF Nationalisation & Corporate Welfare Bailouts
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Author: Robert Cohen
Date: Sep 16, 2008 19:24
... Uncle Sam Well, that begs the question doesn't it? We are re-learning the Herbert Hoover era dilemmas Well, we should but we aren't in fact. Hoover was far, far from a laissez-fairest. In fact his actions were perfectly designed to worsen the Depression, e.g. raising taxes, imposing high tariffs, tightening the money supply. FDR, your hero, marched in and made matters even worse. Fred ...
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Re: Lehman Bankrupt, FF Nationalisation & Corporate Welfare Bailouts
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Author: Robert Cohen
Date: Sep 16, 2008 19:01
... by Uncle Sam Well, that begs the question doesn't it? We are re-learning the Herbert Hoover era dilemmas Well, we should but we aren't in fact. Hoover was far, far from a laissez-fairest. In fact his actions were perfectly designed to worsen the Depression, e.g. raising taxes, imposing high tariffs, tightening the money supply. FDR, your hero, marched in and made matters even worse. Fred Weiss The ...
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Re: Lehman Bankrupt, FF Nationalisation & Corporate Welfare Bailouts
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Author: Fred Weiss
Date: Sep 16, 2008 17:42
... if not intervened upon by Uncle Sam Well, that begs the question doesn't it? We are re-learning the Herbert Hoover era dilemmas Well, we should but we aren't in fact. Hoover was far, far from a laissez-fairest. In fact his actions were perfectly designed to worsen the Depression, e.g. raising taxes, imposing high tariffs, tightening the money supply. FDR, your hero, marched in and made matters even worse. Fred Weiss
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Naomi Klein Strikes Back at Critics of Her 'Shock Doctrine' Book
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Author: Zaroc Stone
Date: Sep 12, 2008 18:20
... himself a 'liberal,' but his U.S. followers, who associated liberals with high taxes and hippies, tended to identify as 'conservatives,' 'classical economists,' 'free marketers' and, later, as believers in 'Reaganomics' or 'laissez-faire.' In most of the world, their orthodoxy is known as 'neo-liberalism,' but it is often called 'free trade' or simply 'globalization.' Only since the mid-nineties has the intellectual movement, led by the ...
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Re: Demonic Race
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Author: THE BORG
Date: Sep 6, 2008 19:41
... of person humans know about called "Gods" but in no way describes the central figure of Angels. And it is not a name - it is a description such as "human" would be a description for you. You should employ laissez faire when dealing with Angels. Remember that they are used to places of great beauty and perfection - that they are completely innocent and do not sin - and that when dealing with humans and while in the area of Earth - ...
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