An “Independent” Congress
By Barry Ritholtz - October 11th, 2009, 7:30AM
Source: Clay Bennett, Chattanooga Times Free Press
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Please use the comments to demonstrate your own ignorance, unfamiliarity with empirical data, ability to repeat discredited memes, and lack of respect for scientific knowledge. Also, be sure to create straw men and argue against things I have neither said nor even implied. Any irrelevancies you can mention will also be appreciated. Lastly, kindly forgo all civility in your discourse . . . you are, after all, anonymous.
October 11th, 2009 at 12:37 pm
Funny.
And I read the classic line regarding Obama’s prize today. This is too good:
All this guy has done is give a few speeches promising almost everything to everyone.
Backed up nothing with actions yet, and is unlikely to.
The Nobel Speech Prize.
October 11th, 2009 at 12:47 pm
Like I always said about the television show Baywatch: Out of the mouth of babes…
October 11th, 2009 at 1:53 pm
Our politicians are so craven that America is now basically a crisis driven country. It takes unprecedented failure to even get the politicians to think about reforming policy that is bad on its face. And then they still may not do anything. So we lurch from bubble to bubble, crisis to crisis, hoping that we won’t ever run into a crisis that buries us before we have time to respond. This is no way to run a country. Our only hope is that the Europeans, Chinese, etc. basically force America to stop acting like a spoiled teenage girl with Daddy’s credit card.
October 11th, 2009 at 2:39 pm
Though Mauldin doesn’t think so I think that day of reckoning is closer than American leaders think. Already the Fed is financing almost, if not all, new debt financing emanating from the government’s checkbook. How long can that go on before someone call out about the Emperor’s new clothes?
October 12th, 2009 at 12:13 am
“Though Mauldin doesn’t think so…”
Glad someone else noticed that. John is a great analyst, but when comes the time to integrate social considerations into his thinking, he falls woefully short.
His political beliefs are also creeping into his writings a tad more than dispassionate and lucid analysis requires.
October 12th, 2009 at 1:20 am
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