[lbo-talk] Barney Frank makes a funny

Doug Henwood dhenwood at PANIX.COM
Wed Sep 17 13:38:05 PDT 2008


[from the WSJ's Real Time Economics]

Barney Frank Celebrates Free Market Day House Financial Services Committee ChairmanBarney Frank (D., Mass.) began a hearing Wednesday by saying — in jest — that he was going to introduce a resolution declaring Sept. 15 “Free Market Day.” Sept. 15 was the Monday after the government declined to step in to rescue Lehman Brothers, but it was one day before the government took a much different approach to prevent the collapse of American International Group Inc.

“The national commitment to the free market lasted one day,” Frank said. “It was Monday.” –Damian Paletta



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