Yes and no.
You act as if every Presidency is static, and unrelated to the others.
>>> Nope, I think you do.
Clinton was able to reap the dividend of Reaganomics,
You mean the Bush recession? As I pointed out, the markets didn't begin rallying until a plan was in place to pay down that Reagan/Bush era debt.
but was too caught up in the heady days of the late '90s to keep the markets reigned-in. Greenspan tried, but did not have any help.
>>> Greenspan tried a little (he supported Levitt's reforms, for example) but Congress - in bed with their biggest campaign contributors - shot down the reforms.
>>> People on both sides of the aisle (Liberman, Dodd, Breaux, Armey, etc., etc.) sold the interests of the small investor in honest accounting down the river.
>>> Clinton fought for the reforms - but maybe not hard enough.
>>> Where were you? Were you with Levitt in accounting reform... or were you with the fat cat, crony capitalist cheats?
>>> Are you part of the problem, or the solution? |