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sabra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-21-09 09:35 AM Original message |
Paul Krugman: End of World 'Postponed' |
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nc4bo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-21-09 09:39 AM Response to Original message |
1. Where's Robin Hood when you need him? |
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bertman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-21-09 10:00 AM Response to Original message |
2. This is pretty much how Krugman called it last September or October. 10% unemployment |
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FarCenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-21-09 10:53 AM Response to Reply #2 |
3. Thank you Countrywide, IndyMac, Golden West Financial, WaMu and other California crooks |
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KamaAina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-21-09 11:35 AM Response to Reply #3 |
6. And Lehman Bros., Bear Stearns, AIG... |
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FarCenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-21-09 11:59 AM Response to Reply #6 |
8. The rotten mortgage business that started the process was a California innovation |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-21-09 12:28 PM Response to Reply #8 |
11. The rotten mortgage business would have been a blip on the screen |
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FarCenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-21-09 01:00 PM Response to Reply #11 |
14. I know how CDOs and CDSs work -- the ones that blew up were written on alt-A and subprime mortgages |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-21-09 03:48 PM Response to Reply #14 |
19. The CDOs and CDSs happen to have been written on the mortgages. |
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No Elephants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-22-09 02:01 AM Response to Reply #14 |
21. Mortgages were NOT the root cause of the problem. If anything, the derivatives fueled the mortgage |
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Zoeisright (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-21-09 12:46 PM Response to Reply #6 |
12. And Bush and Cheney and Reagan and Gingrich |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-21-09 12:26 PM Response to Reply #3 |
10. You are pointing to only a few of the guilty guys. Read the book, |
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gratuitous (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-21-09 10:57 AM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Oh, and thank you Bush administration |
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No Elephants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-22-09 02:04 AM Response to Reply #4 |
22. Bush AND the Democratic Congress. And Bernanke and his protege, Geithner, both |
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Mari333 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-21-09 10:58 AM Response to Original message |
5. ending 2 stinking expensive 'wars' would help! |
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HamdenRice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-21-09 11:58 AM Response to Original message |
7. Keynes to the rescue! |
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Demeter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-21-09 02:02 PM Response to Reply #7 |
15. Within 5 Years, Depression 2.0 will still occur |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-21-09 03:24 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. That's what the Libertarian Austrian School morons are saying. Screw them. |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-21-09 03:35 PM Response to Reply #17 |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-21-09 12:00 PM Response to Original message |
9. Krugman, testing the wind, returns to his "globalist"/neoliberal roots. |
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blueworld (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-21-09 12:55 PM Response to Original message |
13. The world will end in 2012 anyway, so big deal. I ain't making that mortgage pay't n/t |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-21-09 03:20 PM Response to Original message |
16. I see the usual folks are turning on Krugman. |
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Barrett808 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-21-09 05:16 PM Response to Original message |
20. Then he hasn't read my blog: |
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