Not-So-Easy Money

by William Powers

Sat. Mar. 29, 2008


Not much is booming in the American economy these days, but there's a bull market in blame. All over the media, people are pointing fingers at those who supposedly got us into this mess. Some say that Alan Greenspan did it. Others fault, variously, President Clinton, President Bush, Congress, and, of course, Wall Street. And let's not forget the foolish people who took out all of those crazy mortgages in the first place.

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