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What government needs to do is to spur real economic activity - as it were, there are whole sectors begging for it, like investment in public transporation or renewable energy infrastructure.

Why has it taken a crisis of immense proportions to make what was absolutely clear a decade or two ago, the true solution (if there is one.)  Occam's Razor.

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin

by Crazy Horse on Tue Sep 23rd, 2008 at 10:53:38 AM EST
Because the financial crack peddlers wanted profits then, and not now.

Fiat money creates fiat finance where obligations are valuable for exactly as long as people believe they are, and no longer.

Reality-based economics, based on tangibles, is so drama-free and boring in comparison.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Tue Sep 23rd, 2008 at 11:01:07 AM EST
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Occam's Razor, "political" or mathematic modulus

US congressional reps, House and Senate, require HH indenture in order to (1) secure aristocrats' ownership of production, real property; and (2) guarantee revenue streams to aristocrats from HH debt obligations.

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Tue Sep 23rd, 2008 at 11:06:59 AM EST
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Occam's razor should be used to cut the throats of those who brought us this mess, starting with Paulson, (before he does any further damage,) and Greenspan, (for the damage he has already wrought.)  Perhaps it should first be used to publicly touch up the circumcisions of all of the occupants of the executive suites of the companies and agencies that brought us to here.

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."
by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Tue Sep 23rd, 2008 at 10:53:45 PM EST
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