On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:43:40 -0700, Mark & Juanita wrote:


I just tried it again, it worked:
http://www.city-journal.org/html/10_1_the_trillion_dollar.html

OK, it worked for me after taking off the "http://" - I guess Firefox is a
little fussy :-).


http://mediamatters.org/items/200810100022


I will point out that mediamatters.org is not by any stretch of the
imagination a non-partisan organization being heavily funded by George
Soros.

And the Manhattan Institute is not exactly non-partisan either :-).


From what I've read, the motivation and increasingly loose lending
standards set by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were a significant contributor
to the problem.

Phil Gramm inserted an amendment forbidding regulation of those strange
derivatives. You don't think that had anything to do with it?

As I said, we'll just have to pick the "expert" we believe.

I've had my say and so have you. Neither of us has changed the others
opinion. As far as I'm concerned, that's the end of it unless you can
come up with a refutation of the statistics I quoted.