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Nobel laureate Daniel McFadden, who teaches at the University of California, said in Landau that a financial equivalent of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration should be established to monitor and certify new financial instruments.


"Ne te courbe que pour aimer..." René Char
by Melanchthon on Thu Aug 21st, 2008 at 05:14:16 PM EST
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In the beginning of this century financial instruments have destroyed a lot more people than poisonous patent medicines ever did at the start of the last century.

If sanity be culturally normative, then by the norms of this culture I claim insanity.
by ARGeezer (argeezer a in a circle yahoo dot com) on Thu Aug 21st, 2008 at 09:07:35 PM EST
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Yes, but weren't the US food and drink regulatory bodies starved of funds to the point where they couldn't even check on abattooirs regarding CJD, leading ot the problems reported earlier this year.

keep to the Fen Causeway
by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Fri Aug 22nd, 2008 at 06:20:12 AM EST
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Correct.  Protections put into place by the Progressives and Theodore Roosevelt have been greatly undercut, especially during the first six years of GWB.

If sanity be culturally normative, then by the norms of this culture I claim insanity.
by ARGeezer (argeezer a in a circle yahoo dot com) on Fri Aug 22nd, 2008 at 11:40:37 AM EST
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