[Peace-discuss] Re: Cockburn on deregulation

[mark bee]

C. G. Estabrook wrote:
> The difference in relation to the current subject, of course, is that
> Obama has retained Rubin as a principal economic advisor, while
> McCain has dismissed Gramm for his remarks on recession.

...Which is about like firing an embezzler because he criticized your taste in shoes.  lol

  Shame it wasn't for Gramm's role in the Commodities Futures Modernization act, another fave republican deregulation hit.  ;)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-moore/a-nation-of-village-idiot_b_127340.html

http://www.villagevoice.com/2002-01-15/news/phil-gramm-s-enron-favor/

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-the-commodity-futures-modernization-act.htm

Additional materials:

http://econ4obama.blogspot.com/2008/09/obama-vs-mccain-on-gramm-leach-bliley.html

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/16/203823/008/1013/601053

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0308/9246.html

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081006/sumner

http://mises.org/story/3098


--- On Mon, 9/29/08, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at uiuc.edu> wrote:

> From: C. G. Estabrook <galliher at uiuc.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Re: Cockburn on deregulation
> To: cbee1uiucedu at yahoo.com
> Cc: peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net, "WEFT-Community concerns the WEFT radio station" <weft-comm at curadio.net>
> Date: Monday, September 29, 2008, 2:40 PM
> The difference in relation to the current subject, of
> course, is that Obama
> has retained Rubin as a principal economic advisor, while
> McCain has dismissed 
> Gramm for his remarks on recession.
> 
> mark bee wrote:
> > 
> > The difference in relation to the current subject, of
> course, is that Obama
> > has criticized the bill Rubin worked on, while McCain
> made his own pet
> > architect co-chair of his 2008 campaign.  ;)
> >