[lbo-talk] No bailout needed

C. G. Estabrook galliher at uiuc.edu
Wed Oct 1 13:47:28 PDT 2008


That reminds me of an aphorism that I heard was common in Solidarity, in Poland, in its early days: "If you have an aquarium, it's easy to make fish soup; it's harder to go the other way." --CGE

Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> On Oct 1, 2008, at 3:34 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
>
>> House Prices Continue to Decline as Talk of Credit Crisis Spins Out of
>> Control October 1, 2008 By Dean Baker
>>
>> "The root cause of the crisis is the deflating housing bubble, credit
>> problems are secondary."
>
> "The root cause of the housing bubble is rising prices; the easy credit that
> financed it was secondary."
>
> That would make about as much sense as this argument.
>
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