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

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

The virtues of public anger and the need for more

Seems to me we aren't pissed off enough.

With lightning speed and lockstep unanimity, opinion-making elites jointly embraced and are now delivering the same message about the public rage triggered this week by the AIG bonus scandal: This scandal is insignificant. It's just a distraction. And, most important of all, public anger is unhelpful and must be contained or, failing that, ignored.

This anti-anger consensus among our political elites is exactly wrong...


Read more here.

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Rep. Gary Ackerman Questions AIG's CEO



Wow.