Don't post a comment till you've read the entire story.
If true, this book contains the smoking gun we've been looking for about who and what caused the economic meltdown of 2008.
It may become required reading for every Tea Partier.
Sorry, but 95% of the U.S. is glued to Wiener, and other trivialities.
Let them have... Bread!
and...
Circuses!
It worked in Rome, right up until the end. Likely, it will here too.
crickets from the GOP.
Nice, but the trail has already been laid and not many followed. Can I get that in a sitcom? oh wait, that would be a resounding NO!!!
My hope is that we can nominate an "outsider" that will use this information to begin the long process of cleaning house inside the Beltway.
I currently like Herman Cain, but will keep an open mind to the possibility of some other "outsider" who can save America from the "Federal Government Leviathan"
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The easiest job in the world will be writing adds for the GOP this next election cycle. The question is, will the GOP use any of the good ones?
Most all us Freepers new much of this story but the GOP is too ineffective to get any message out, even a simple message such as the 2003 tax cuts were not just for the rich.
I don’t hold my breath for the GOP to get this message out.
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Considering how theyve gotten away with murder the past 50 years, I'll believe it when I see it.
And who was in charge of the housing HAMP bail-out?
Fannie. Who was much more interested in using the program to churn millions in mod fees, than in saving homes.
Well, the more the ‘arrogant one’ appears in the news, the more we are distracted from what’s really important. I hope he stays on and they drag it out, but jobs, the economy, national security, the border, etc. is being slighted by the media (who’da guessed?)...
No story on Democrat corruption will gain traction without media coverage, no matter how many campaign ads are built around it.
But the Republicans do have a weapon - they control the House, and the House can investigate, and can investigate using subpeona power. The House should initiate an investigation of shenanigans at Fannie and Freddie, and should call Johnson (to find out how he earned his tens of millions), Barney Frank (on how his butt-buddy got his job), Pelosi (on how her son got his), Rahm (on how somebody with no training in finance got a leadership position - with a multi-million dollar salary - there), etc.
And on what many seem to think is an unrelated note, I’ve observed that many of the folks who frequent FR are actually capable of following several stories at once. Making sure a dillrod like Anthony Weiner has his ass handed to him prevents him from jumping on the corruption gravy train outlined above, helps damage the democrat brand in a separate venue, and keeps pressure on both Weiner and his party, leading to continued tension and division among the donkeys.
These people are corrupt to the hilt, and corrupt in almost every dimension, and they need to be hammered at every opportunity. It just happens that right now Weiner is an opportunity.
I just wish they would prove me wrong, just this once...
The Subprime Mortgage Market Collapse: A Primer on the Causes and Possible SolutionsPublished on April 22, 2008 by Ronald Utt, Ph.D.
In 2009, The Nation called her "The Most Important Financial Journalist of Her Generation". She has appeared on Bill Moyers Journal, and Charlie Rose.
Awards:
2009 Gerald Loeb Award
2003 Matrix Awards Hall of Fame Newspapers
2002 Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting "for her trenchant and incisive Wall Street coverage."
1998 Gerald Loeb Award for New York Times writings on the financial crisis at Long Term Capital Management.
This book should be different in that she had all the endorsements form the left.
"The Most Important Financial Journalist of Her Generation" - from The Nation?? Are you kidding me? That's gold Jerry, Gold!
This means nothing.
The dems are elected (or reelected) to loot and pillage the treasury ‘for the common good’ of course.
Did you hear any reaction from the ‘progressives’ when obama personnaly approved the $34m bonuses for Fannie/Freddie executives?
http://sweetness-light.com/archive/obama-gives-fannie-freddie-execs-millions
ps he did the same thing in feb ‘09
Waited for McCain to unleash this information in 2008. Not holding my breath now.
Nice article. I would hope a simple message regarding this could be hammered into the heads of the electorate. I seriously doubt it. I think it is too complex for the average voter to want to put in the time and effort to know. All they hear is short brief sound bites.
Weiner showed his weiner. That sinks in fast. They get it. The Clinton’s Whitewater investments completely baffled them. I don’t think this story is any less complicated than Whitewater.
The article says “The Morgenson/Rosner story is a simple and easily grasped one. It is made for campaign ads.”
Oh really? Then the article says, “The housing bubble and the financial market meltdown were very complex phenomena, many cooks were required to spoil this broth and the arguments over what caused the crash may never end.”
And THAT my friend is the indisputable fact. Show a few adds about James Johnson and Fannie, and the MSM/DNC/SEIU machines come back with quotes from Bush saying we need more housing for the poor. Just show the faces of Republicans Phil Gramm and Jim Leach with the caption “Repealled the SAFEGUARDS of the Glass-Steagal Act.”
That is it. Bubba’s eyes glaze over and Sissy wants to go for a yogurt. Game over.
Even if the foundation is simple, the details of this story are extremely complex, and the MSM/DNC/SEIU machine will obscure the simple moral in the complex details. Game over. Pushing this to Joe Sixpack and Suzi Soccermom would take the communication skills of Reagan on steroids.
IMHO, this story will never be more than preaching to the choir. True conservatives will know where the bulk of the blame lies, and we would enjoy reading the book and learning new details about the truth, but there is no way Joe 6 and Suzi SM takes the time necessary to dig beyond the MSM/DNC/SEIU smokescreen that would play 24/7 to obscure the truth. No way.
Much better to just keep with “It’s the economy stupid”.
Much better to highlight the unemployment numbers and food and gas prices. Joe 6 and Suzi SM already know those are true. That is where the Donkeys and the radical Socialist Muslim in chief are vulnerable.