“Iceberg? What Iceberg? We were just trying to see how fast she’d go.”
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It’s coming out that Barney Frank, and possibly other Democrats, are more than just metaphorically in bed with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. One wonders if a censure at least ought to be forthcoming for those, um, “involved.”
I liked the bit from Raines about how a 2% reserve ratio is adequate for housing. Yeah, nobody has EVER lost 2% or more on selling a home by, say, paying the realtor.
(which suggests that, ahem, minimum reserve ratios for banks, Freddie, and Fannie ought to be not 2.5% or 4%, but rather 6-10%)
(Potentially crazy formating depending on whether this commenting system works like I hope. I just wish there was a preview button.)
— Marc Weiss, Business History Conference, 1989
— Ecclesiastes 1:9 250 BC
— Albert Einstein
So what kind of commercial is McCain running? Something that gets this meeage out? No. Instead it’s one that says “we should all just get along”. Meanwhile Barry is pulling away.
It’s like Boschwitz not taking Wellstone serously.
Or LaFollette thinking Joe McCarthy is a crackpot who could never win.