Volcker even sounds like a cross between vulgar and vulcan. Scary. On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 4:58 PM, raghu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 3:31 PM, Jim Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> No-one says that Volcker is "pure evil." I don't get this practice of >> arguing against proposition X by saying that X isn't _completely true_ >> as if that says that X is totally wrong. Doug criticizes Volcker for >> being a Field Marshall of finance capital and someone says "well, he >> can't be all bad." (He loves dogs and children after all!) > > Volcker can and does say a lot of things that make perfect sense. As I > recall he warned against the LBO excesses of the 1980's, and more > recently against the housing bubble well before it burst. Volcker's > ideas obviously are not much aligned with mine, but that doesn't mean > I can't agree with *some* of the things he says. > -raghu. > > -- > "I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer says he > can get me five." > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l >
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