I think this AG thing is surprisingly simple. AG made a mistake...
With respect, I think you're applying a somewhat simplistic model to what is really a complex situation. No matter how big or small his ego, AG does not exist in a vacuum. There are other, interacting, forces such as the new administration, Y2K (gone and forgotten, but very real when AG is supposed to have made his mistakes) and an undoubted bubble in the markets even before liquidity was pumped up, to mention a few. If there is a fault with AG it is that he has been given public superman status, when he is only human. If he contributed to that misconception, then he definitely deserves approbrium, but I'm not sure he did.
There is more than a little 20-20 hindsight at work here, I feel. |
