Wall Street Loses Its Immunity

Then came the crisis, which proved that all those claims about
how modern finance had reduced risk and made the system more stable were utter nonsense. Full Story »

Posted by Manfred Ostrowski - via Tim O'Reilly, Paul Krugman, Dave Winer, New York Times (Most Emailed), New York Times (Opinion), AllTop, David K. Miller (t), Donica Mensing (t), Mark Pegrum (t), barbara trummpinski-roberts (t), Johan Jessen (t), Salvador Sala (t), Ron Steffens (t), Umbreen Bhatti (t), George Moga (t), Jeppe Kabell (t), Jeremy Caplan (t), Kristi Hancock (t), Kaizar Campwala (t)
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Subjects: U.S., Politics
Topics: Mitt Romney
Member Tags: occupy wall street, income inequality, banking and financial institutions, regulation and deregulation of industry, united states economy, united states politics and government
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Posted by: Posted by Manfred Ostrowski - Oct 16, 2011 - 8:27 PM PDT
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Edited by: Manfred Ostrowski - Oct 17, 2011 - 1:03 AM PDT

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Manfred Ostrowski
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by Manfred Ostrowski - Oct. 17, 2011
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Randy Morrow
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by Randy Morrow - Oct. 17, 2011

More broadly, the same political forces that promoted financial deregulation fostered overall inequality in a variety of ways, undermining organized labor, doing away with ... More »

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J. B. Van Wely
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by J. B. Van Wely - Oct. 20, 2011

It's a very good opinion piece, and there are facts to back it up. That said, it's an opinion piece and so states the facts as givens, rather than providing concrete evidence. Krugman is a good writer and a good economist. This essay makes the point very succinctly.

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