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Related: About this forumJoseph Stiglitz: Iraq War Caused the Great Recession
Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz argues that U.S. combat in Afghanistan and Iraq helped trigger 2008's economic collapse. According to Stiglitz, rises in oil prices, a culture of deregulation, and the housing bubble all stem from America's war involvement.
Complete video available for free at http://fora.tv/2012/03/27/War_and_the_Economy_The_True_Cost_of_Conflict
Raster
(20,998 posts)Motherfuckers!
linux80386
(51 posts)Bastards...
kitt6
(516 posts)Worse than Bush!
kitt6
(516 posts)Try to get over your racism now. Just this one time. You won't regret it! Romney will send us further than where Bush left us.
???? Bush, Cheney, Paul Ryan and Romney.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)dickthegrouch
(3,188 posts)will cause us to go into that double dip that everyone's so afraid of.
How they can be so shortsighted and continue to refuse to allow the government to collect what it needs to pay for the wars is completely beyond me. I hope Obama wakes up soon and starts using this idiocy to win by a landslide.
KansDem
(28,498 posts)Banks, Wall Street, MICs, oil companies...the 1%!
They can pay off the deficit and leave our Social Security and Medicare alone!
It's also time to end the tax cuts. Richie Rich can start working for a living...
bulloney
(4,113 posts)They've been ordered from their corporate masters to link the recession to public employees, Social Security, unemployment payments and other domestic programs. It's never the fault of the MIC and its warmongering.
xiamiam
(4,906 posts)refreshing