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To: Chispas who wrote (44900)	1/21/2006 6:45:28 AM
From: shades	Respond to of 116555

I wonder what award he got from his buddies after the S&L crisis - the "usual suspect" kaiser soze award - The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist! hehe

To: Chispas who wrote (44900)	1/21/2006 5:09:26 PM
From: Chispas	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 116555

"Greenspan, in Batra's view, leaves in his wake millions without health insurance, mountains of consumer debt, and a record number of personal bankruptcies. Less strident critics complain that Greenspan has handed his successor, Ben Bernanke, a poison'd chalice. By their reckoning, he has kept interest rates too low for too long, and pumped so much liquidity into the economy that Bernanke will have to be adroit to avoid a recession--if it is indeed possible to do so. Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz says Greenspan, by supporting President Bush's tax cuts (as did Bernanke), leaves in his wake a country "with huge instabilities, . . . ill-equipped to face any kind of shock......" Continued ................................................ weeklystandard.com