Welcome to European Tribune. It's gone a bit quiet around here these days, but it's still going.
Display:
LQD: "The speculators have to be burned." | 6 comments (6 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)
Re: LQD: Stiglitz backs up Blanco (4.00 / 4)
As we've seen over the last 18 months, the speculators will burn themselves without government intervention.  The trick is to stop the goddamn politicians from bailing their asses out.  If Goldman-Sachs had been allowed to go under we wouldn't be having this now.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
by ATinNM on Tue Feb 9th, 2010 at 02:28:16 PM EST

Others have rated this comment as follows:

ManfromMiddletown 4
JakeS 4
ARGeezer 4
kjr63 4

LQD: "The speculators have to be burned." | 6 comments (6 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)
Display:

Top Diaries

City Agriculture - October 4, 2023

by gmoke - Oct 4

Energy (and Other) Events Monthly - October 2023

by gmoke - Oct 1

Ireland 13 South Africa 8

by Frank Schnittger - Sep 24
3 comments

UNGA: West Censors the South and East

by Oui - Sep 19
19 comments

EU VDL State of the Union -- Managing Decay

by Oui - Sep 13
38 comments

Rugby World Cup 2023 Week 1 review

by Frank Schnittger - Sep 11
5 comments

Reactionary Visions and eNtiTiES

by Cat - Sep 13
12 comments

Recent Diaries

City Agriculture - October 4, 2023

by gmoke - Oct 4

Energy (and Other) Events Monthly - October 2023

by gmoke - Oct 1

UA Laboratory NATO First Space War

by Oui - Sep 30
25 comments

United Nations In Stalemate Position

by Oui - Sep 29

Biden's Headache in Middle East: Israel

by Oui - Sep 28
5 comments

EU as Client State of Joe's America

by Oui - Sep 27
22 comments

Canada's Trudeau Honoring an Ukrainian Nazi Collaborator

by Oui - Sep 26
20 comments

Ireland 13 South Africa 8

by Frank Schnittger - Sep 24
3 comments

UNGA: West Censors the South and East

by Oui - Sep 19
19 comments

A Tale by Benjamin Franklin

by gmoke - Sep 17
3 comments

Fail in Democracy Return to Authoritarianism

by Oui - Sep 15
3 comments

Yemen From Ceasefire to Peace Talks?

by Oui - Sep 15

Huge Cost Proxy War of Choice

by Oui - Sep 14
11 comments

EU VDL State of the Union -- Managing Decay

by Oui - Sep 13
38 comments

Reactionary Visions and eNtiTiES

by Cat - Sep 13
12 comments

Top Military War Planning Under Joe Biden - Ukraine

by Oui - Sep 12
10 comments

Rugby World Cup 2023 Week 1 review

by Frank Schnittger - Sep 11
5 comments

Joe's Fuck the EU -- Showdown

by Oui - Sep 9
29 comments

Modi G20 One Earth, One Family, One Future

by Oui - Sep 7
13 comments

Conflict In Syria's Deir Ezzor Province

by Oui - Sep 6
1 comment

More Diaries...

Occasional Series