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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRepublicans Gearing Up for Third Financial Crash in 3 Tries
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/08/republicans-preparing-for-third-financial-crash-in-3-tries.htmlThis is the third time in 100 years weve had this alignment of government that weve got to get it done or else I [am] really worried our country will continue down a bad path, said Paul Ryan this weekend. This alignment of government means conservative Republicans control the House, the Senate, and the presidency. The previous two times Ryan is describing are the 1920s, when Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover presided over a Republican-controlled Congress, and the George W. Bush administration. (Ryan is omitting 19531954, when Republicans narrowly controlled both chambers, presumably because Dwight Eisenhower governed as a moderate deeply at odds with conservatives.)
The Republican government of the 1920s ended when a wave of loosely regulated stock speculation produced a crash in the financial system. The Republican government of the 2000s ended the same way. Its not clear what lessons Ryan has absorbed from these prior episodes, but he does not seem to be especially concerned about repeating those policy errors.
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In possibly related news, The Wall Street Journal reports today, Penalties levied against firms and individuals by the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority in the first half of 2017 were down nearly two-thirds compared with the first half of 2016putting regulators on track for the lowest annual level of fines since at least 2010.
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Republicans Gearing Up for Third Financial Crash in 3 Tries (Original Post)
deminks
Aug 2017
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SaschaHM
(2,897 posts)1. It's the Republican Cycle..
Give to their donors while wrecking the economy for the inevitable Dem Pres/Congress to fix. Imagine what else President Obama could have accomplished if he inherited a booming economy.
jmowreader
(50,561 posts)2. Oh, come on. You KNOW what "lessons Ryan has absorbed"
If you have enough money you can afford to buy-and-sit for five to ten years, you can make out like a bandit in a Democrat-to-Republican transition.