Posted on 09/17/2007 6:59:59 PM PDT by kellynla
“Can’t help but think this bastard’s policies helped get us where we are”
well when you think back, Kermit inherited one of the strongest economies in American history with historic low interest rates in 1987 and within two years he put us into a recession with double digit interest rates.
Like finding out the worst enemy of America was in charge with Greenspan.
I’m more optimistic.
We just need a CONSERVATIVE POTUS who knows what that veto pen in the top drawer of his desk is for.
Reagan inherited a hellofamess and the right person in the Oval Office in 2009 can turn this mess around again too!
CUT, CUT, CUT, CUT, AND MORE CUTS! LOL
LOL, ouch... I didn’t remember the figures the way you do, but it’s nice of you to bring it up. Thanks.
Worst period in our history since the great depression wasn’t it...
The Clintons, in any other nation they’d be harvesting strawberries for a living.
All I want to know is; how much money Andrea Mitchell made off the Stock Market while hubby was Chairman of the Federal Reserve.
“Honey, are you gonna raise or lower interest rates today?”
“Worst period in our history since the great depression wasn’t it?”
I think you are thinking of the 70’s under the peanut farmer. Thank God for RR!
RR & Paul Volcker pulled us out of that mess and then Kermit the Frog showed up in 1987.
He’s selling a book, duh...
I’d make a decent wager that the Euro press has, once again, done everything short of blatantly misquoting Greenspan. Think what you will of him, but with the dollar pushing 70% of global currency reserves and the euro 25% he would not be saying the dollar has barely any advantage, nor would he be basing such a statement simply on cross-border transactions that inherently favor the euro. And, as I’ve said in an earlier thread on this, we don’t even know the timeframe Greenspan is talking about.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it many times in the future: The Euro press is very keen to play these kinds of things up in order to lead perception of the U.S. downward. It’s not a conspiracy, it’s simply a common bias. You see the same sorts of things in the earlier reports that Greenspan claimed the Iraq war “was for oil.” They get days and days of headlines about it, and no one will remember that Greenspan countered that story.
Just as with this, if what Greenspan actually said was far more bland we’ll never hear much of it. But what we will have, thanks to this pre-release excerpt that will make headlines for nearly a full business week before the real deal comes out, is yet another situation where something is taken out of context or embellished, a headline is imprinted as “fact” on a large number of people, and the follow-up is all but forgotten.
Oh, and thanks to that idiot Matt Drudge for doing all he can to mindlessly propagate this stuff globally.
That answers that.
For a man who was in such an exalted position he sure is doing a lot of non- production, useless babbling.
Please Greenspan - shut up.
His wife, Andrea “bird of prey” Mitchell is just as bad, if not worse, than Greenspan.
That was the line used by the Clinton cabal in 1991. I didn’t agree with it. It was one of the most bald face lies in U.S. politial history. Sure enough the lefties at DU and the like believed it to be true.
BTW, you’re right about Carter.
In case you’re interested in purchasing Kermit’s book....
like I know you are. LOL
The other axis of evil. What’s the solution?
The low dollar makes all US products look cheaper. The Europeans are going on US vacations constantly now. All of this European money is rolling into the US market. I don’t think I’d complain too much.
Right around 2000 up to 2002. It wasn’t a coincidence. And Iran is mulling over the same thing currently.
“What’s the solution?”
Sooner or later we are going to have to give the Muzzies the Jihad they so desperately want.
And while we’re at it, pursuing energy independence and purchasing MADE IN USA products wouldn’t hurt!
No need in helping the Chicoms & Muzzies further financially in their goal to BURY US!
Crazy as Pat Buchanan sounded years ago;
he’s making more sense at this point;
although he was dead wrong on the war in Iraq;
Saddass needed to be “taken out” but I wish Bush would have allowed one of my fellow Marine Corps Snipers do the job...
Flame on...I have my asbestos PJ’s on. LOL
Saddass was a bad actor who needed to be “taken out”...
I only wish we had finished the job on our first trip...
Like Gen. Patton said “I hate paying for the same real estate twice.”
The one time I bought from Amazon it took forever to get the product. Would be a good place to order a book I don’t want.
Please tell me why the British pound is going up over the dollar? It’s just like much of the stock market in my view. Manipulation and trading.The pound at a long time high against the dollar? What’s the bloody reason for that?
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