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malaise

(269,157 posts)
Wed Dec 20, 2017, 10:28 AM Dec 2017

How come Andrea Mitchell never mentioned this

while the trickle down no regulations posse were spewing their usual shit?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/23/AR2008102300193.html
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Alan Greenspan, once viewed as the infallible architect of U.S. prosperity, was called on the carpet yesterday, pilloried by a congressional committee for decisions that contributed to the financial crisis devastating world markets.

The former chairman of the Federal Reserve said the crisis had shaken his very understanding of how markets work, and agreed that certain financial derivatives should be regulated -- an idea he had long resisted.

When he stepped down as Fed chairman less than three years ago, Congress treated Greenspan as an oracle, one of the great economic statesmen of all time. Yesterday, many members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee treated him as a hostile witness.

"You found that your view of the world, your ideology was not right, it was not working?" said Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.), the committee chairman.

"Absolutely, precisely," Greenspan said. "You know, that's precisely the reason I was shocked, because I have been going for 40 years or more with very considerable evidence that it was working exceptionally well."

Greenspan alternately defended his legacy and acknowledged mistakes. Waxman asked whether the former chairman was wrong to consistently oppose regulating the multitrillion dollar derivative market that has contributed to the financial crisis.

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How come she hasn't asked 'the so called oracle' what he thinks about this tax scam?

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How come Andrea Mitchell never mentioned this (Original Post) malaise Dec 2017 OP
They're both pretty loathsome human beings. nt Guy Whitey Corngood Dec 2017 #1
Yuh think? malaise Dec 2017 #2
Isn't she married to Greenspan? geardaddy Dec 2017 #3
Yes. That's the point of the OP louis c Dec 2017 #4
OK, that's what I thought. geardaddy Dec 2017 #5
Too busy going on about the next big thing in Hillarys emails. Mr. Sparkle Dec 2017 #6
+1000. Paladin Dec 2017 #19
All of them got rich... Wounded Bear Dec 2017 #7
So true tiptonic Dec 2017 #10
That's why I don't get into the "trickle down" doesn't work discussions... Wounded Bear Dec 2017 #11
During the housing crisis, the banks had money, the hedgefunds had Sophia4 Dec 2017 #17
2008 article. . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Dec 2017 #8
Andrea is a smarmy shill. MontanaMama Dec 2017 #9
I can't stand to listen to her, not because of her politics, which are bad enough... Wounded Bear Dec 2017 #12
Youre right! MontanaMama Dec 2017 #13
MSNBC management must believe that they have a real stateswoman in Mitchell. Eyeball_Kid Dec 2017 #15
Nailed it malaise Dec 2017 #16
IDK how they can still have her on the air her stumbling speech pattern is so bad. Ligyron Dec 2017 #20
I recall seeing an interview shortly after the crash JohnnyRingo Dec 2017 #14
God Save the King,,,,,,,!!!!!! Cryptoad Dec 2017 #18
Andrea said Emails in her first five words, every time she was on air in 2016. sarcasmo Dec 2017 #21

Mr. Sparkle

(2,940 posts)
6. Too busy going on about the next big thing in Hillarys emails.
Wed Dec 20, 2017, 11:08 AM
Dec 2017

"Oh the emails , the humanity" is how i would describe her election coverage, literally missing the biggest elephant in the room.

Paladin

(28,271 posts)
19. +1000.
Wed Dec 20, 2017, 01:30 PM
Dec 2017

I will never, ever forgive her and Chuck Todd's obsession and trashing of Hillary Clinton over those inconsequential emails. Andrea Mitchell and Chuck Todd bear eternal blame for aiding and assisting trump and his fascist goons into office. MSNBC should have sacked them both.

Wounded Bear

(58,698 posts)
7. All of them got rich...
Wed Dec 20, 2017, 11:10 AM
Dec 2017

so, the economy was just fine for them. That's what "trickle down" does...it increases income inequality.

Wounded Bear

(58,698 posts)
11. That's why I don't get into the "trickle down" doesn't work discussions...
Wed Dec 20, 2017, 11:42 AM
Dec 2017

Trickle down works just fine at what it is designed to do, which is to hoover up money for the upper classe.

 

Sophia4

(3,515 posts)
17. During the housing crisis, the banks had money, the hedgefunds had
Wed Dec 20, 2017, 12:56 PM
Dec 2017

money, and they bought the properties in foreclosure in Los Angeles. Now they rent them out.

You see, what counts for the rich is not the having things or even really the selling things but rather the steady stream of money from things poorer people need and have to pay for every month or day or week or at least every year.

The rich make their real money, the big money, the income that sustains them, that is more than they need, that increases their wealth from things we have to pay for daily, weekly, monthly, annually. That is their income. The income they don't need accumulates, and that accumulated extra income is wealth.

That is why it is smart to have solar panels or a windmill or some energy form that makes you independent. That is why you want to buy and live in a house or apartment or room that is LESS than you need, not more than you need. That is why bicycling to work is smarter than a car if you can bicycle. That is why turning the heat down, driving less, doing less is important now. Every cent you spend on things you can do without feeds the Republican greed machines called wealthy people.

MontanaMama

(23,337 posts)
9. Andrea is a smarmy shill.
Wed Dec 20, 2017, 11:28 AM
Dec 2017

She led the HRC email brigade on msnbc. She NEVER has anything of consequence to say, she is a proponent of the “both sides do it” theory and her head is much too large for her body.

Wounded Bear

(58,698 posts)
12. I can't stand to listen to her, not because of her politics, which are bad enough...
Wed Dec 20, 2017, 11:44 AM
Dec 2017

but because she's kind of obviously going senile. Can't finish her sentences, stumbles over her words, tries to talk fast and blows it.

Painful to watch.

MontanaMama

(23,337 posts)
13. Youre right!
Wed Dec 20, 2017, 11:50 AM
Dec 2017

Something is off with her. I never watch her but will occasionally tune into her show on my way to work in the car. I can’t last one segment without swearing and turning her off. I swear a lot these days but that’s another conversation. 😒

Eyeball_Kid

(7,434 posts)
15. MSNBC management must believe that they have a real stateswoman in Mitchell.
Wed Dec 20, 2017, 12:31 PM
Dec 2017

But all they have is a mush-brain who couldn't stop obsessing about HRC's perceived misdeeds. And you're right. She's lost her ability to think critically and independently. She's living on repeatedly referencing those old memes and rumors and still makes millions.

Retirement doesn't come too soon for her.

Ligyron

(7,639 posts)
20. IDK how they can still have her on the air her stumbling speech pattern is so bad.
Wed Dec 20, 2017, 01:53 PM
Dec 2017

Her husband must have a lot of money or something.

JohnnyRingo

(18,640 posts)
14. I recall seeing an interview shortly after the crash
Wed Dec 20, 2017, 12:17 PM
Dec 2017

He had already stepped down, and I think he may have been interviewed by his wife, but the question was whether he would have done anything differently. He began talking about his era of banking deregulation by saying he couldn't believe the financiers killed the goose that was laying their golden eggs. They had it made under his stewardship and abused the deregulated system for short term profit.

Clearly he thought if given a free reign, the banks would police themselves and greed would not be a factor. It's hard to understand why he thought that, but it's been the basis of the Republican platform since Reagan.

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