Dean Baker On Greenspan's Failures (VIDEO)

Bloomberg Video:  Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, talks with Matt Miller and Carol Massar about former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's testimony on his leadership of the central bank -- April 7

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Difficult to argue with anything from Baker in this clip.  The free-money wombat is guilty on all counts of recklless central banking leadership and promotion of the housing bubble.

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[DailyBail]

Greenspan Needs To Admit That He Blew It (Henry Blodget)

http://www.businessinsider.com/henry-blodget-greenspan-needs-to-admit-that-he-blew-it-2010-4

[DailyBail]

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601074&sid=aSz2YagHA2Yk

Transcript of Greenspan interview with Al Hunt of bloomberg

[DailyBail]

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/04/opinion/04burry.html?pagewanted=1&ref=opinion

I Saw the Crisis Coming. Why Didn’t the Fed?

[DailyBail]

Nassim Taleb Asked Me To Rip Apart His New Chapter -- I Need Your Help

http://www.businessinsider.com/nassim-taleb-asked-me-to-rip-apart-his-new-chapter-i-need-your-help-2010-4

[DailyBail]

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2010/04/greenspan-on-short-seller-michael-burry.html

Greenspan vs. Hedge Fund Mgr. Michael Burry

[DailyBail]

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-04-04/imf-s-strauss-kahn-warns-against-removing-stimulus-too-soon.html

IMF’s Strauss-Kahn Warns Against Removing Stimulus Too Soon

[DailyBail]

Making Financial Reform Fool-Resistant

By PAUL KRUGMAN

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/05/opinion/05krugman.html?hp

[DailyBail]

The prospect of losing two House seats in back-to-back special elections next month has sparked a vigorous, behind-the-scenes Democratic effort, designed to avoid an outcome that could lead to panic among the rank and file and stall the momentum generated by the recent passage of landmark health care legislation.

The trajectories of the two elections, which will take place in Pennsylvania and Hawaii over a span of four days next month, have raised alarm bells among top party officials who fear that a pair of defeats in the Democratic-held seats could amount to a Massachusetts Senate sequel, overshadowing President Barack Obama’s health care reform plan and reinforcing a narrative that the Democratic Party is on track for severe losses in November.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0410/35422.html#ixzz0kTKg6pBN

[RecoverylessRecovery]

@ DB

You're STILL under the ILLUSION that Democrats & Republicans are SEPARATE parties, huh?

[DailyBail]

rlr...not at all...both parties are corrupt and of the same core...we have posted the bankers manifesto here many times...when you see me post political links it's not because i'm favoring one side over the other...there are subtle differences and not much else...

http://www.federalobserver.com/archive.php?aid=7124

i realize that i don't write about this as much anymore but it was a recurrent theme around here in my stories in the first 9 months or so of the site...

[Zarathustra]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_zSBtx76B8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9nHcZQfKWs

It's bad, really bad!!!!!

[DailyBail]

zara...the michael savage clip was useless freudian nonsense...the obama-stephanopolous clip was interesting....but you know that i never view the world through a foreign policy lens...it's just not how i think...

[Zarathustra]

DB...Really!

[DailyBail]

i'm assuming that's sarcasm since you're well aware that i don't focus there...

[DailyBail]

but since you do, here's a link..

http://af.reuters.com/article/egyptNews/idAFLDE6372DV20100409?feedType=RSS&feedName=egyptNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FAfricaEgyptNews+%28News+%2F+Africa+%2F+Egypt+News%29&sp=true.

UPDATE 3-Netanyahu cancels trip to Obama's nuclear summit

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Gingrich: Obama is 'most radical president ever'

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100409/ap_on_re_us/us_republicans_gingrich

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Prosecutors: Pelosi feared for family after calls

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100409/ap_on_re_us/us_pelosi_threats

[Zarathustra]

Yes, not unless that satirical clown Jon Leibowitz says it.

[Zarathustra]

Nice Gingrich clip!