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time.com - 2/13/2009

Phil Gramm - 25 People to Blame for the Financial Crisis

— time.com — As chairman of the Senate Banking Committee from 1995 through 2000, Gramm was Washington's most prominent and... outspoken champion of financial deregulation . He played a leading role in writing and pushing through Congress the 1999 repeal of the ... (more) Phil Gramm - 25 People to Blame for the Financial Crisis

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time.com - 2/12/2009

25 People to Blame for the Financial Crisis

— time.com — The good intentions, bad managers and greed behind the meltdown... (more) 25 People to Blame for the Financial Crisis

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spectator.org - 2/6/2009

The True Origins of This Financial Crisis

— spectator.org — Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Two narratives seem to be forming to describe the underlying causes of the financial... crisis. One, as outlined in a New York Times... (more) The True Origins of This Financial Crisis

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No Chris Dodd, No Barney Frank
The Corner on National Review Online — [image] [image] NRO BLOG ROW | THE CORNER | ARCHIVES SEARCH E-MAIL PRINT RSS [image] Thursday, February 12, 2009 [image] No Chris Dodd, No Barney Frank [ Jonah Goldberg ] On Time magazine's top 25 people to blame for the financial crisis . In fairness, it's a stupid web poll. Still, it's annoying. 02/12 12:49 PM [image] [image] [image] © National Review Online 2009. All Rights Reserved. Home | Search | NR / Digital | Donate | Media Kit | Contact Us ...

Phil ‘mental recession’ Gramm attempts to resuscitate his reputation.
Think Progress — This month, Time released a list of the top 25 people to blame for the financial crisis. Second on the list (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 “nation of whiners” in a “mental recession.” In the 90s, he also played an instrumental role in deregulating the financial sector. Today, Gramm has an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal denying that the deregulation he promoted had ...