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an act of God, a once-in-a-century financial hurricane

Act of God, my ass. That's like removing the moderator from a nuclear reactor core and calling the result an Act of God

A vivid image of what should exist acts as a surrogate for reality. Pursuit of the image then prevents pursuit of the reality -- John K. Galbraith

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sun Sep 14th, 2008 at 07:48:28 PM EST
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Would you put an eighty-year-old in charge of a nuclear reactor?

Greenspan's not stupid, but I think much of the problem, aside from his ideology, was that the finance game passed him by.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Sun Sep 14th, 2008 at 07:50:30 PM EST
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