I am going to have to disagree with Spitzer’s claim in the headline, but the rest of the interview is worthwhile:
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Knowing that the vote over the weekend in Greece was really a referendum on Euro membership, a majority of the Greek Parliament said yes to staying. European Finance Ministers meet again on Wednesday to solidify the 2nd bailout package for Greece at the same time hopefully a deal is consummated between Greece and its creditors this week. The Greek 14.5b euro bond that matures on March 20th is up by 2 pts. The optimism that all will be completed and contained AGAIN to Greece has yields lower in Portugal, Spain and Italy. The iTraxx Financial Index is also narrower by...
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July 14th, 2009 at 4:44 pm
Spitzer sure talks like a guy who has some practical ideas. I wonder who he voted for.
The government buying or investing in viable businesses that no one else has the money or time to develop, instead of corrpuptly giving it to the chosen on Wall Street, the trillions of dollars it gave (and is now considering to give even more a la Paul Krugman) without question to AIG (thence, to Goldman Sucks), the banks, and GM, etc, ad nauseum makes too much sense for them to actually do it.
It would solve problems rather than create them which seems to be the Real business government is in: Creating unsolvable problems in order to grow themselves.
July 15th, 2009 at 11:43 pm
Good read
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/07/will_dems_allow_goldman_to_man.html