Word: blame
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...people to blame for the financial crisis...
...sales have dropped, the relationship between the manufacturers and dealers has become extremely contentious. The dealers blame the auto companies for a lack of good products and access to consumer credit. The car companies want the dealers to buy more inventory to give them much-needed cash flow. Dealers are going out of business and fairly soon Chrysler and GM may be gone...
...After a tough loss—and one that we only have ourselves to blame for—we’re all hungry to get out and get after somebody,” co-captain Sam Slaughter wrote in an e-mail...
...verdict was quickly endorsed by Jack Welch and Andrew Grove, retired CEOs of General Electric and Intel, respectively. And from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke came this measured nudge: "Until we stabilize the financial system, a sustainable economic recovery will remain out of reach." (See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...
...Which once again argues for knuckling down on the banking issue, because that's a matter of unquestioned urgency. Political opportunists will no doubt jockey to claim credit or place blame, but ultimately everyone is looking to the Administration for leadership in this area, and only ideologues will grumble if Obama manages to find a way through it. The President and his team were elected to fix the economy, a senior Republican acknowledges, but the electorate is less clear, he argues, on the rest of the Obama agenda...