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Strategies & Market Trends : Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis
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To: Sunny Jim who wrote (92043)12/26/2008 11:44:06 AM
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<It was in an appropriation bill. Probably part political and part not understanding its full ramifications.>

What a lame excuse!<<

koan:

Repeal of Glass Steagall in 1999: I was not making excuses for Clinton, just trying to understand it. Maybe Clinton did know it would cause all these problems and wa all for it, but I doubt it; or maybe Rubin or some other economic adviser gave him bad advice and talked him into letting it go. I also do not know if the appropriation bill could have been stopped.

You ever worked on an appropriation bill?? I have. Lots of them at the State level.

But REMEMBER, it was PHIL GRAMM who put it in, MCCain's economic adviser and an adviser to Bush. He slipped it into the appropriations bill late at night as I remember.

Yes, Phil Gramm, the guy who said American's were just a bunch of whiners a few months ago and that the economy was in great shape.

PS, this economic debacle was all caused by an unregulated Wall Street that went wild gambling with highly leveraged bundles of debt (40 to 1+) and had NOTHING to do with blue collor workers, unions or remiss home buyers, as the revisionists try to pin it on.

And each time the bankers made risky commercial or other loans, bundled CDO's or got involved in CDS's, they took a big cut for themselves. That is where the trillions went. It was ponzi scheme.
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