mm337: Dare we trust those who messed up to fix it?

April 3, 2008

MUDGE’s Musings

I can’t help it — our turbulent economic news continues to cause concern.

And, as we’ve pointed out, it’s increasingly top of mind most everywhere.

As a topic, it has appeared here with depressing regularity (depressing topic but lively and insightful commentary, of course!):

“May you live in interesting times”

mm335: Are you prepared for interesting times?
mm334: Rearranging deck chairs
mm333: “Great people shouldn’t have a resume”
mm331: Obama at Cooper Union: Lincoln?
mm328: Today’s economics lesson: Depression 101
mm309: The news Bush really hates you to hear
mm289: Recession: Paying the price for our power
mm285: Mayor Mike tells some hard truths
mm263: This man -so- wants to pull the trigger…
mm257: The R-Word – Not that racy television show
mm256: I don’t hate big corporations, either

Pointed here by American.com here’s a useful analysis that lays out the causes of the financial system’s deep crisis, and you might be surprised at the source: St. Alan Greenspan and the Federal Reserve that, directed by Greenspan’s successor, Ben Bernanke, now is portraying itself as our white knight.

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