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Glass Steagall is needed, I get so confused about which banks did what



Reich says it would, i trust him

http://robertreich.org/post/124114229225

First, he's not an economist (he's a lawyer). Second, he's all in favor of Bernie's college plan, but he fails to disclose that he gets paid $250k per year to teach one class at a public university (UC Berkely). He's part of the reason college is so expensive. Dude is full of himself.

listening to the experts.

If Hillary gets the nomination, hope he's right.

EOM

I wonder what the results would have been if we went with the two trillion dollar stimulus he advocated and not the nearly one trillion dollar stimulus that we did.

Henry Kissenger has a Nobel Peace Prize and Milton Friedman for economics. Krug man is smart, but economics is hard to get right every time.

Hands down.

Century, Bush was enough. She has not failed in the positions she has held in the past, I dont see it in the future for her.

I present to you Libya and the resulting death, destruction and unending streams of refugees.

then a happy cackle.

Libya was a terrible failure. Thousands of people died and are continuing to die as a result.
RW talking point, indeed!
It used to be that only repubs hated FACTS!
oh wait.... we're talking about the Clintons

It helps to have a business plan.

Younger generations receiving benefits. Without the last reform there would not be anything after 2012, I am benefiting from that reform. I am not greedy.

against their own best interests. Perhaps you can explain?

There are more Democrats than Republicans, we lose elections because lack of concern or just plain lazy for some.

The same people giving her millions right now. Can anyone on the planet believe they're doing that out of the goodness of their hearts.

Represent. That $18,000 donation the NRA made to defeat Sanders opponent is still working for the NRA.

It takes on average of $1,689,580 to run for the Senate. I fail to see how .01% of that amount makes Sanders a tool for the NRA.

I don't understand his allegiance to the NRA either.

And using your higher number it makes your claim about Sanders and the NRA look even more ridiculous.

When he was elected to congress twenty five years ago.

...and they are donating to Hillary now, to help her win the nomination, then isn't it reasonable to conclude that they believe she will lose to an (R) in the GE?

Historically, they have given to both Dem and Republican candidates. But more to republicans.

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Even if they are giving to the R's too, the reason they give to Hillary and not Bernie is because they expect her to lose.

Again, the basic assumption is that they doing everything possible to ellect an R. That would include the donations made to Hillary.

I am commenting on Krugman's premise.


I know they always donate to both sides, that is not the topic of this discussion.

the campaigns they pretend to support. Do you think manny of them are actually republicans?

Preferring the Republican only requires believing that Wall Street will do better with a Republican than any Democrat. it doesn't require thinking that any Democrat will take a tough line on the financial industry. Krugman is usually smarter than this.

....and aware economist in the world today. Brilliant, and an excellent column by him.

Becomes bus fodder and Bankster trash when he does not feel the Bern.

On either side of the aisle.

And it doesn't care which party it elects one from either.

which is no doubt why he premised it with "for what it's worth"...

it has no value whatseoever if his assumptions are flawed/faulty, like

1. Bernie's eventual plan isn't as narrow as he claims

2. Similarly, if she sticks to her guns and doesn't pursue a renewal of GS, and overall is less hard on WS than BS as will almost certainly be the case, then the fact that she is better than any repub doesn't make her better than her dem opponents on this issue.

If anything, he appears to making that case himself, but ignoring it.

It made Citibank a legal entity, ex post facto and removed the last barrier of protection leftover from the Great Depression

And if anyone thinks Hillary will lift one finger against Wall St, they have another thing coming. Look at Obama. He campaigned on more progressive economic stances and had progressive economists around him and as soon as he took office he appointed Geithner and a bunch of Bank of America execs to his top economic spots.

Yeah...that worked well.

Financial crisis, Sanders voted for this bill.

your point?

Brady Bill five times, he voted against the ISIS Resolution.

revealed a bit of a lean to those libertarian Democratic ideas.