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Distorting History (Obama Busted !!)
Greg Mankiw's Blog ^ | 09/30/08 | Greg Mankiw

Posted on 09/30/2008 3:54:20 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen

In the debate last night, Barack Obama asked a good question about the present financial crisis but then gave an answer that was, at best, incomplete: ---snip--- The main problem, we are led to believe, was a Republican ideology of unfettered capitalism that led to insufficient government involvement in the financial system.

Senator Obama might want to read this NY Times article from 1999:

(Excerpt) Read more at gregmankiw.blogspot.com ...


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*** also has a video of time line and many good references ***
1 posted on 09/30/2008 3:54:20 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen
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To: Kid Shelleen
And this post has all three videos in one post.
2 posted on 09/30/2008 4:04:35 AM PDT by samtheman
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To: Kid Shelleen

Here’s some of my collection of reading material on the matter:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2093233/posts?page=1http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2083123/posts?page=50

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n25_v45/ai_14779796

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1965239/posts
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=306978378974502
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=307149667289804&kw=cra
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2088795/posts
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/09/the_financial_mess_how_we_got.html

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2092987/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2093289/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2093405/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2093675/posts

http://www.rc4systems.net/Downloads/Docs/CRA-Notes-27Sep2008.pdf


3 posted on 09/30/2008 4:06:18 AM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists, Call 'em what you will, they ALL have Fairies livin' in their Trees.)
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To: Kid Shelleen
Notice anything about the debate viewership stats?
4 posted on 09/30/2008 4:14:35 AM PDT by jilliane
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To: jilliane

The all households rating is higher than each of the 2+ subcategories, which would mean an overwhelming number of infants would have had to watch.


5 posted on 09/30/2008 5:11:18 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine (Is /sarc really necessary?)
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