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MannyGoldstein (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-20-09 10:33 PM Original message |
Poll question: Paulson/Summers/Geithner or Volcker/Krugman/Stiglitz? |
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FarCenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-20-09 10:46 PM Response to Original message |
1. What does Volker have in common with Krugman and Stiglitz |
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MannyGoldstein (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-20-09 10:49 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. They All Tend To Favor The Same Types of Policies |
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Oregone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-20-09 10:50 PM Response to Original message |
3. No Twain/Voltaire/Dickens category? |
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HCE SuiGeneris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-20-09 10:52 PM Response to Original message |
4. Zappa/Vonnegut/Lennon |
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clear eye (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-21-09 11:34 AM Response to Reply #4 |
25. Classic. n/t |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-20-09 11:22 PM Response to Original message |
5. Elizabeth Warren for Sec Treas..Krugman for the Fed |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-21-09 01:04 AM Response to Reply #5 |
12. I'm with you SoCalDem. |
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Thickasabrick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-22-09 12:25 AM Response to Reply #5 |
36. Yes...I didn't take the poll because Warren wasn't on it! nt |
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Davis_X_Machina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-20-09 11:38 PM Response to Original message |
6. Typical black-white excluded-middle thinking. |
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MannyGoldstein (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-20-09 11:41 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. But Don't They Tend To Line Up That Way In Economic Policy? |
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Davis_X_Machina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-20-09 11:57 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. Krugman's co-authored papers with Summers. |
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MannyGoldstein (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-21-09 12:06 AM Response to Reply #8 |
9. Wow. Link? Nt |
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kenny blankenship (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-21-09 11:43 AM Response to Reply #9 |
27. They worked together in the Reagan administration's council of economic advisers |
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HamdenRice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-21-09 08:16 AM Response to Reply #6 |
17. Agree in principle, but one thing I think you get wrong about Geithner |
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Davis_X_Machina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-21-09 01:15 PM Response to Reply #17 |
31. But I thought.. |
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HamdenRice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-21-09 01:41 PM Response to Reply #31 |
32. The Fed is a federal agency. It's nothing like a private bank. |
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Unvanguard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-21-09 12:16 AM Response to Original message |
10. I'm not sure Krugman and Stiglitz would have been with Volcker in the early '80s. |
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TheWebHead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-21-09 12:31 AM Response to Original message |
11. Volcker/Krugman/Stiglitz = S&P500 -250, DJIA -2,000 |
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JackRiddler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-21-09 03:06 AM Response to Reply #11 |
13. That's a start. The stock market is an indicator for fools and fat cats. |
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MannyGoldstein (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-21-09 07:43 AM Response to Reply #11 |
14. So Being Correct Is For Losers? |
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JackRiddler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-21-09 08:29 AM Response to Reply #14 |
18. Note also that the statement effectively cedes sovereignty to Wall Street... |
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MannyGoldstein (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-21-09 12:19 PM Response to Reply #18 |
30. Wow. I Like The Cut Of Your Jib, Man. |
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JackRiddler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-22-09 12:17 AM Response to Reply #30 |
35. Thanks back at you, Manny. |
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clear eye (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-21-09 08:04 AM Response to Original message |
15. I would have made the progressive alternative Stiglitz/Roubini/Warren |
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JackRiddler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-21-09 11:22 AM Response to Reply #15 |
22. Excellent. |
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HamdenRice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-21-09 08:10 AM Response to Original message |
16. You have to delete Volcker before I vote for that slate. How he became a left hero is beyond me |
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JackRiddler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-21-09 08:30 AM Response to Reply #16 |
19. By the same process of rightward shift that allows Clinton & Obama to stand as "progressives"? |
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HamdenRice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-21-09 09:12 AM Response to Reply #19 |
20. There's no comparison. Neither Clinton nor Obama set out to smash union wages |
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JackRiddler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-21-09 11:21 AM Response to Reply #20 |
21. True, Clinton didn't "set out" to do that. But then came NAFTA, WTO... |
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Unvanguard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-21-09 12:09 PM Response to Reply #20 |
28. Volcker is not a "far right wing ideologue" and is not remotely comparable to Ron Paul. |
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clear eye (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-21-09 11:40 AM Response to Reply #16 |
26. Stiglitz left the World Bank b/c is wasn't making changes |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-21-09 11:23 AM Response to Original message |
23. Volcker/Krugman/Stiglitz |
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lonestarnot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-21-09 11:25 AM Response to Reply #23 |
24. Yes. |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-21-09 12:17 PM Response to Original message |
29. Voted for them, but I think Volker would be the Wall Street mole that would |
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Mithreal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-21-09 08:33 PM Response to Original message |
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