tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post8573918267493729879..comments2024-03-28T07:50:06.102-04:00Comments on Mike Norman Economics: Obama's betrayal: No Iraqi peace dividendmike normanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03296006882513340747noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-58851583131033105872009-04-29T20:07:00.000-04:002009-04-29T20:07:00.000-04:00Yes Matt, that's right. However, even withe Dems i...Yes Matt, that's right. However, even withe Dems in control, I am skeptical that any meaningful anti-spec legislation will be passed. With many Wall Streeters holding top policy posts, it seems a long shot that things will change.mike normanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03296006882513340747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-40829140398403904182009-04-29T18:48:00.000-04:002009-04-29T18:48:00.000-04:00Goog,
Add to the banking sector the lack of regula...Goog,<br />Add to the banking sector the lack of regulation in the oil/commodity markets either. Mike did the best reporting I ever saw on the unfettered speculation in commodities and had the data and facts to back it all up. Bush/Paulson reply: Free Market!; it destroyed the economy undeniably now in hindsight.<br />Mike reported that Sen Norm Colemans own Senate Committee on Investigations identified speculation in commodities as having the most influence on rising commodity prices, Coleman ignored his own report. and now it looks like he will lose his senate seat to joker Al Franken, he deserves it.<br /><br />MattMatt Frankohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11978352335097260145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-55080215044545524242009-04-29T18:04:00.000-04:002009-04-29T18:04:00.000-04:00Yes, Goog, as always, right on!Yes, Goog, as always, right on!mike normanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03296006882513340747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-2567224423992573292009-04-29T15:47:00.000-04:002009-04-29T15:47:00.000-04:00i'd wait and see when and if Obama places things i...i'd wait and see when and if Obama places things in overdrive<br /><br />i am listening to Phils' Gang on bizradio, and everything about housing is the Democrats' fault<br /><br />but he is saying that Fannie and Freddie put tax payers on the hook for the demise <br /><br />however he does not understand that the free market should have been able to take care of $30 to even $100 billion worth of foreclosures<br /><br />phil grande also is a nim-commie-poop about the the 30 to 1 leverage by wall street banker fascists who are the real products of Bush and Greenspan deregulation in fact no regulation such that the cdo's and swaps multiplied by 30 or evern more cannot be mopped up by the free market.<br /><br />ergo : phil grande is a GOP boy scout debt terrorist wanna bee who does not understand macro economics.<br /><br />XX qed XXgoogleheimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14459089745473598235noreply@blogger.com