Burning Down The House: What Caused Our Economic Crisis is, perhaps, the best video yet to explain the current economic crisis and offers details about the political players involved, including presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama and several of the folks most responsible for the crisis. UPDATE 9/29/08: It appears the video that is [...]
‘Burning Down the House’ Explains Economic Crisis
September 27th, 2008 · 5 Comments
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Barney Frank’s ‘Fannie Mae Love Connection’
September 25th, 2008 · 2 Comments
A report published by the Business & Media Institute this morning scolds the mainstream news media for being “mum” on what writer Jeff Poor describes as Rep. Barney Frank’s “Fannie Mae love connection.” Here’s a snippet: Prominent Democrats ran Fannie Mae, the same government-sponsored enterprise (GSE) that donated campaign cash to top Democrats. And one [...]
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GOP ‘Working For A DemocRAT-Free D.C.’
April 20th, 2007 · No Comments
A headline, Working for a rat free D.C., from Examiner.com’s Washington, D.C., edition caught my eye today, because it made me think someone was pushing one of those grassroots efforts to “boot the bums out” or call for term limits on all members of Congress. Instead, the article provided an in-depth look at the four-legged-rodent [...]
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