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Phil Gramm tops Times' list of 25 people most responsible for Shitstorm
Corrente —
Time/CNN website is having a contest to see who, in their opinion, is most responsible for our current economic situation -- Here
Current standings -- Here
Bill Clinton Steps Up, Accepts Zero Responsibility for Economic Chaos
JammieWearingFool —
... , a list surprisingly absent the names Barney Frank or Christopher Dodd, although Dodd's good friend Angelo Mozilo made the list. Time readers have fingered Phil Gramm as most responsible. Go figure. Question: If Clinton bears no responsibility, then why is Clinton budget director and former Fannie Mae CEO Franklin Raines so high among the choices? Labels: ...
B. Clinton: Obama's 'Off to a Good Start'
News —
... President Bill Clinton's interview with NBC's Ann Curry that aired Monday on the "Today Show." Clinton said President Barack Obama is "off to a good start" and that he's "got a good team." He also had high praise for the $787 billion economic stimulus bill that passed through Congress last week. "I think he got quite a good bill out of this," he said. "This package that he's going to sign is our bridge over troubled waters." Clinton also tackles Time Magazine's putting him on its list of who to blame for the current economic crisis.
Phil ‘mental recession’ Gramm attempts to resuscitate his reputation.
Think Progress —
... (and leading its readers’ poll) is former Sen. Phil Gramm (R-TX). Gramm advised Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) during the presidential campaign, famously referring to America as a “ ...
Phil Gramm's Culpability, Acknowledged
MoJo Blog Posts: mojo —
... The result is the mess we're in today. And it appears the public is able to trace culpability all the way back to Gramm, because in voting on Time's website, Gramm has been fingered by readers as the most guilty party in this disaster. To read more about credit default swaps and how "Foreclosure Phil" created our crisis, see ...
Who is to Blame for the Financial Crisis?
Patterico's Pontifications —
... This week Time magazine published its list of the “25 People to Blame for the Financial Crisis.” It’s an interesting list, as much for who is included as for who is not. George W. Bush is there, as one might expect, as are Phil Gramm, Christopher Cox, and Alan Greenspan. Bernard Madoff is there, too, and there was even a spot reserved for “the American consumer,” who for 40 years, in Time’s view, spent too much and saved too little. ...
Parsing Blame in the New Old Wild West....
Brilliant at Breakfast —
... that I found so interesting that I had to...um...borrow a copy from the gym so I could read it in hard copy. Its the Faith Healing issue, and it has, by the way, a great little piece on how boomers are taking over FaceBook...kick ass!! (And if I hadn't un-friended my niece I would send that link to her, because she seems to think that the thing belongs to the college aged kids with no spending power....as if anyone has any anymore.) But, the piece that got me was about The 25 People to Blame for the Economic Mess We're In., and its lineup of the expected suspects, ...
"Hong Kong" Palin vs. "Katie Couric" Palin
Crooks and Liars —
... Palin's rewriting of history begins with the causes of the global economic meltdown. While the villains behind the calamity are many (see, for example, Time and the New York Times' excellent series, " ...
