ryanavent.com - 11/24/2008
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Atrios says : As has so often been the case, when the financial crisis hit all the Very Serious People insisted something needed to be done and assumed that no matter how badly the Bush administration fucked things up, something was better than nothing. Learn people… That the execution of the ...
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Matthew Yglesias —
... Ryan Avent offers some evidence that despite the infuriatingly bad implementation and continuing dire situation, the passage of the $700 billion rescue package did in fact ...
Fred Thompson Offers Nation Sarcastic "Holiday Cheer"
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... money on anything, ever, is to blame, and how everyone who's attempting to fix to crisis is even more to blame. In short, your holiday cheer is "Harsh Lessons From Uncle Fred," involving the archly offered news that everyone was dumb to participate in an unrestrained hootenanny of government spending and risky derivatives and subprime borrowing, and, what's more, no good has come from the bailout at all. (Also, they never did catch that anthrax guy! Think about it!) Uhm, let's let Ryan Avent clear his throat:
That the execution of the bail-out has ...
Fred Thompson Offers Nation Sarcastic "Holiday Cheer"
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... money on anything, ever, is to blame, and how everyone who's attempting to fix to crisis is even more to blame. In short, your holiday cheer is "Harsh Lessons From Uncle Fred," involving the archly offered news that everyone was dumb to participate in an unrestrained hootenanny of government spending and risky derivatives and subprime borrowing, and, what's more, no good has come from the bailout at all. (Also, they never did catch that anthrax guy! Think about it!) Uhm, let's let Ryan Avent clear his throat:
That the execution of the bail-out has ...
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