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    Glass-Steagall passed Congress because Sen. Carter Glass and Rep. Henry Steagall, both Southerners and both close to the banking industry,…
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    • BTW, anyone who lists Father Coughlin among left dissenters as Puakev does, has fallen prey to false labeling. Coughlin's "left…
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    • Comparative history is difficult to think about and write in a coherent and meaningful way. When we try to equate…
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    • They would report on Republican squawking - they always do - but they would resolve nothing. They can't deal with…
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    • The punishment should be to smile and make sure the states with the obstructionist Senators get as little federal money…
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    • Yeah. Dodd's father was one of the good guys too, except that he shilled for the dictator we installed after…
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    • I think most of the problem is that Obama's progressive critics and his defenders are dealing with different scales in…
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    • Hmmm... where to begin. Scots-Irish settled in the uplands of the South where plantation slavery wasn't economically viable. From Blount…
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    • Mainstream media reporting on your proposal: "Republicans oppose tax increase. Democrats say it's only a tax increase on some. Who's…
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    • Iowans will not vote for presidential candidates who won't stand in their living rooms and answer questions from everyone, even…
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    • I say this as someone who has given Democrats a decade of my time, a fair amount of money, and…
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    • Why do Democrats let the right-wing media make their personnel decisions for them? This is hardly the first time. I'm…
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    • The GOP is permitted to gum up the Senate for two weeks on 98-0 votes as you say because Harry…
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    • First, Krugman's observation that politicians - especially Democrats - pay too much attention to the daily news cycle is right…
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    • Reagan didn't repeal Glass-Steagal. We needed "liberal" Republican Jim Leach and "moderate" Democrat Bill Clinton to do that. Please note…
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    • "The bigger question is whether Obama can transform Reaganomics, or whether it will fatally compromise him." There isn't any transforming…
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    • My point wasn't really about tenured professors and B-schools. It was that the pseudo-science of economics as an inevitable force…
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    • Say what you will, Greenspan is the only one of the Chicago-School types ever to man up and admit any…
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    • I know you don't agree with me, but you have laid out my disappointment with the President very clearly here.…
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    • It's true that deregulation leads to disaster, and that's historical fact. Unfortunately, many of the people getting screwed the worst…
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