[lbo-talk] Free marketeer "govt regulations caused meltdown" book makes NYT bestseller list

[Fernando Cassia]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Charles Brown <cdb1003 at prodigy.net> wrote:
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> B. docile_body at yahoo.com
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> Maybe the meltdown wasn't what you think
> By Peter Brimelow, MarketWatch Last update: 1:03 a.m. EST Feb. 23, 2009
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> NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Everyone knows the crash of 2008 was caused by financial deregulation except Thomas E. Woods, who blames financial regulation, in the shape of the Federal Reserve.
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> Wood's new book, "Meltdown: A Free Market Look At Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked and Government Bailouts Will Make Things Worse" (Regnery), has just made it to the New York Times best-seller list without the benefit of any major reviews.

Whom finances these timely books? How can one write a book in a couple
weeks? I couldn't.

Can the author or the publisher be linked to the AEI, CATO and the
usual suspects?. Seems like a job for FAIR.org
FC