Showing posts with label financial crisis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label financial crisis. Show all posts

Monday, January 30, 2012

Quotation for Today: Back To Failure, Mitt Romney's Campaign Theme?

Today's quotation, across the break, offers a bit of insight into Florida's Republican primary and how the 99 Percent are still suffering from the Republican policies of the George W. Bush presidential years. Those policies benefited mostly the One Percent and their Wall Street bankers; bankers who used residential mortgage-backed securities, credit default swaps and other, pernicious financial instruments to enrich the One Percent while sowing massive destruction on the Main Street economy.

Friday, December 16, 2011

Quotation for Today

The world's economies continue to suffer severely from the effects of the financial crisis that began in 2008, and world leaders remain anxious over the lack of international cooperation to solve these ongoing economic problems.  The quotation for today, cited on the other side of the break, elevates the leaders' concerns about the lack of cooperation.