Comments on: Alan Greenspan is the definition of ‘EPIC FAIL’

By: iskid2astop

iskid2astop — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:20:31 +0000

I believe the appropriate comment, given the content is…..Is the economy died?

By: myc001

myc001 — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:06:42 +0000

Kilkenny requests a clarification: ” … [W]hat does it take, exactly, to become a discredited figure in this country?”

This should be the constantly restated question to the media, the government and the public.

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Mon, 05 Oct 2009 05:01:49 +0000

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By: seabird

seabird — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 04:50:51 +0000

Yes, Alan Greenspan got it wrong and his decisions had far-reaching effects, from which this country will take may years to recover.

The thing about Mr. Greenspan is that he immediately took responsibility for his actions and apologized for getting it so very wrong.

Greenspan did not, however, force all these people to go out and purchase homes, cars, whatever even when they knew their paychecks could not support the debt they will piling up.

Everybody is talking about shared responsibility with all this health care crap they’re going to try to ram down our throats; what happened to the share responsibility in the realm of finances.

Should all regulations on banks have been lift? No. But they were and the man who did it has stepped up and said he was wrong.

Too bad more people in this nation won’t take responsibility them themselves. I have a lot of respect for this man now, for his willingness to admit his mistakes. And let’s not forget, while things were very, very good everyone in this country thought he was the best ting since sliced bread.

Mistakes, yes. Honor for taking responsibility for those mistakes, absolutely.

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Mon, 05 Oct 2009 03:53:20 +0000

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By: jackreynolds

jackreynolds — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 03:16:39 +0000

I’m glad Greenspan is out there. Yeah, he is a big part of why we’re screwed up. And now he’s calling for extensions for unemployment benefits, subsidies to help families out of work keep health insurance, and establishing the Consumer Financial Protection Agency.

What I want to know is why this falls on deaf Republican ears. Wasn’t Greenspan one of their deities as recently as 2006?

By: Zaid Jilani

Zaid Jilani — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 02:10:45 +0000

Speaking of Geithner:

http://www.fancast.com/movies/Capitalism:-A-Love-Story/151365/1274007383/Capitalism:-A-Love-Story:-Geithner/videos

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Mon, 05 Oct 2009 02:10:27 +0000

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By: Zaid Jilani

Zaid Jilani — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 01:59:39 +0000

I clicked your article and thought, “He’s still alive?”

A better question is, why are Greenspan’s ideological allies still in prominence, including in the White House (geithner and summers)? OK, maybe it’s not fair to call them his ideological allies (they’re a little to the left of him), but it seems like being wrong gets you further in Washington.