...is that nobody knows what's going to happen in November. It's an unprecedented election in two ways: a black man is vying to become the president of the United States; and in the midst of an economic meltdown, voters are feeling an unprecedented degree of pessimism about the direction the country is heading. Clearly, there is reason to believe that the "Bradley effect" -- the historical fact that some of those who tell pollsters that they...

... Home Owners Loan Corporation of the New Deal, which pumped hundreds of billions of public money into the private economy; and the Resolution Trust Corporation of the 1980s, which cleaned up the first savings and loan meltdown (also the child of deregulation.) But the similarities are only skin deep. In the cases of the Roosevelt institutions, public capital went hand in hand with stringent toughening of public standards. And with the ...

...is that nobody knows what's going to happen in November. It's an unprecedented election in two ways: a black man is vying to become the president of the United States; and in the midst of an economic meltdown, voters are feeling an unprecedented degree of pessimism about the direction the country is heading. Clearly, there is reason to believe that the "Bradley effect" -- the historical fact that some of those who tell pollsters that they...

..., or Pakistan, or Malawi, or Argentina on the brink of financial meltdown -- but the United States? Nonetheless, according to NPR's David Kestenbaum, "The... 1907, the legend of Morgan's heroics in single-handedly stopping a meltdown that threatened to become worldwide, the iron discipline he imposed on more ... a mechanism and, in 1907, had come far too close to meltdown -- even Morgan's efforts couldn't prevent several years of recession -- to ...

Zaroc Stone wrote: McCain Enabled Our Economic Meltdown No he didn't. And Scheer is a fired liar. -- not too random uselessnet weirdness: Bill Shatzer wrote: "And over 4,000 Americans have paid with their lives for that little adventure. Plus a half a trillion dollars in national treasure You might compare that with the number of lives lost on 9-11. Or the economic injury incurred from that event. It would have been ...

McCain Enabled Our Economic Meltdown By Robert Scheer, Truthdig. Posted September 18, 2008. McCain ... special-interest giveaways to Wall Street that enabled this meltdown. He voted for abolishing all of the significant rules... McCain until Tuesday, still in denial on the meltdown, insisting it was merely "all part of a cycle...Obama delivered his main economic speech blaming for the meltdown the Gramm deregulation that Rubin had helped make law...

On Sep 18, 8:25 pm, "Sean" <h...@now.com.au> wrote: FBI Director Robert Mueller said the agency’s investigations into the subprime loan meltdown may uncover financial crimes committed by hedge funds and private equity firms. They're looking for scapegoats (today, on The Street, it's "short sellers"). Business is always a convenient target, since they are assumed guilty in advance in the very nature of what they do, pursuing ...

...cards are self-destructing if not intervened upon by Uncle Sam But, as Investor's Business Daily points out: http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=306370789279709 The Real Culprits In This Meltdown By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Monday, September 15, 2008 4:20 PM PT Big Government: Barack Obama and Democrats blame the historic financial turmoil on the market. But if it's ...

... has done it. AMY GOODMAN: But, of course, the argument was, if you don’t bail out AIG, it could lead to a global financial meltdown. MICHAEL HUDSON: What you—it’s a meltdown of the gamblers, as Nomi said. These are people who’ve gambled. You had McCain saying they’re gamblers. If these people have gambled, we’re talking about ...

...of cards are self-destructing if not intervened upon by Uncle Sam But, as Investor's Business Daily points out: http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=306370789279709 The Real Culprits In This Meltdown By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Monday, September 15, 2008 4:20 PM PT Big Government: Barack Obama and Democrats blame the historic financial turmoil on the market. But if it's dysfunctional,...