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among government officials, financial experts, lawmakers, industry executives and lobbyists

in other words, amongst the finance industry, its employees and its servants.

What about consumers? Representatives of other sectors of the economy? Services that deal with homeless people, bankrupt people, and so forth? Even representatives of small banks? And taxpayers??

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Thu Jun 18th, 2009 at 04:58:05 AM EST
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Note that financial experts are mentioned but not economists.

The brainless should not be in banking. — Willem Buiter
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Jun 18th, 2009 at 05:15:44 AM EST
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in "lobbyists"?

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Thu Jun 18th, 2009 at 07:06:03 AM EST
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