[Peace-discuss] Re: Cockburn on deregulation

[E. Wayne Johnson]

Gramm is very much still a part of the McCain team, regardless of the 
public posturing.

mark bee wrote:
> 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:
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> http://econ4obama.blogspot.com/2008/09/obama-vs-mccain-on-gramm-leach-bliley.html
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> http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/16/203823/008/1013/601053
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> http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0308/9246.html
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> http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081006/sumner
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> 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.  ;)
>>>
>>>       
>
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