Former NY Gov. Eliot Spitzer on Governments and Markets
By Barry Ritholtz - January 4th, 2010, 12:55PM
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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.
January 4th, 2010 at 1:44 pm
Spitzer pretty much nails it. He calls out the Fed and Treasury for their failures. He mocks the thought of new regulations that will not work because the government is incompetent. And, he rightly points out the various agencies and Fed already had the regulatory tools and authority to halt this mess before it happened.
You can call the man out for his penchant for prostitutes as well as being a hypocrite since he cracked down on prostitution, but he does know his government regulation.
January 5th, 2010 at 12:07 pm
Currently, Spitzer’s credibility is not in high demand, nor are his opinions. IF he can keep his beak clean and his business above reproach, then slowly we can start to let him build some momentum to his credence.
January 5th, 2010 at 1:55 pm
[...] of the financial depredations of the last few decades, they could do worse than listen to the analysis of former NY Governor Eliot Spitzer, rather than self-serving Wall Street apologists like Robert [...]
January 6th, 2010 at 11:27 am
Please don’t assist in the rehabilitation of this crook. He shook down multiple companies, took fines from the shareholders, and prosecuted no-one successfully. A headline-seeking thug who should never hold public office again. Back under your family-moneyed rock!