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How the GOP Can Court Black Voters
Pajamas Media — ... , testifying about the subprime mortgage crisis before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on October 23, said: “Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholder’s equity (myself especially) are in a state of shocked disbelief.” He continued , “I made a mistake in presuming that the self-interests of organizations, specifically banks and others, were such as that they were best capable of protecting their own shareholders and their equity in the firms.” Are charges of “racism” and racially motivated “redlining” ...

Arianna Huffington: Will The Madoff Debacle Finally End The "Who Could Have Known?" Era?
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... Then there is Alan Greenspan, who, looking back in October of this year on the makings of the financial crisis he helped create (I mean, that just happened to come out of nowhere) delivered this "Who Could Have Known?" classic: "If all those extraordinarily capable people were unable to foresee the development of this critical problem...we have to ask ourselves: Why is that? And the answer is that we're not smart enough as people. We just cannot see events that far in advance." ...