http://www.minyanville.com/articles/GOOG-YHOO-MSFT-Paulson-yahoo-google/index/a/20439 Paulson....April 20, 2008 The subprime crisis is contained.....
Top ten quotes of 2008 "We have sort of become a nation of whiners." â former Sen. Phil Gramm, an economic adviser to Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, quoted in The Washington Times, July 10. "It's not based on any particular data point, we just wanted to choose a really large number." â a Treasury Department spokeswoman explaining how the $700 billion number was chosen for the initial bailout, quoted on Forbes.com Sept. 23. "The fundamentals of America's economy are strong." â McCain, in an interview with Bloomberg TV, April 17. "Anyone who says we're in a recession, or heading into one â especially the worst one since the Great Depression â is making up his own private definition of "`recession.'" â commentator Donald Luskin, the day before Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, The Washington Post, Sept. 14. ----------- Hell you can just watch Kudlow and Kronies to get some real gems.
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