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Bernie Sanders: Joseph Stiglitz... (Original Post)
Playinghardball
May 2015
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orpupilofnature57
(15,472 posts)1. It's like Greenspan thinking Wall Street would police themselves .
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)2. K&R! This post deserves hundreds of recommendations!
I love Bernie and Joseph Stiglitz.
AZ Progressive
(3,411 posts)3. Blame Ford, he started the deregulation wave
But of course it was the whole right wing movement behind, but Nixon wasn't interested in deregulation.
fasttense
(17,301 posts)4. Deregulation was just another con
If deregulation worked than criminals would be the most successful businessmen around. And in a way we have turned our businessmen into criminals through deregulation.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)5. A lot of people forget that Reagan came to DC as a REFORMER....
Reagan portrayed himself as the hero up against an intractable opposition. An over-bloated bureaucratic NIGHTMARE full of shadowy, overpaid pencil pushers.
He claimed he would cut the pork and the red tape and make government work for the PEOPLE instead of for itself and "special interest groups". (Hippies demanding clean air and water.)
Paka
(2,760 posts)6. K&R
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)7. K & R