Dean Baker, PoliPoint Press. February 7, 2009. Anyone with common sense, a grasp of simple arithmetic and a desire to go against the consensus should have seen the financial crisis coming.
Donald Cohen, Huffington Post. October 31, 2008. Throughout the period of conservative dominance there were always those who understood the fallibility of unregulated markets.
Scarecrow, Firedoglake AlterNet: Election 2008. March 25, 2008. I wonder what Paul Krugman, who has pointed to Alan Greenspan's role in fostering the current financial crisis, would think of this.
Jon Ponder, Pensito Review AlterNet: PEEK. March 19, 2008. Bush tops "Heckuva job Brownie" with clueless comment on financial meltdown: "I want to thank you, Mr. Secretary, for working over the weekend"
Ralph Nader, Nader.org. January 19, 2008. The assault on regulation over the past quarter century caused a mortgage collapse that is producing hundreds of thousands of foreclosures.
Mark Weisbrot, AlterNet. January 3, 2008. This will be the second recession since 2001 that was caused by the bursting of an obviously speculative asset bubble.
Ian Welsh, AlterNet: PEEK. September 17, 2007. Ian Welsh: Alan Greenspan's new book says nasty things about Bush, but that doesn't mean he's redeemed himself.
