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Brook doesn't blame speculators, traders or financiers for the market's near-collapse, but instead blames government for having overregulated the markets in the first place. The business leaders bailed out by government this week "are victims," he said, "and the government set it up." Washington underreacted to previous crisis, let Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac spin wildly out of control as quasigovernment agencies while taxpayers piled up unsecured debt in their names. The crisis, he added, was "really fed throughout by government policies...
...death of four babies and the illness of 6,200 others, has aroused anger and despair in Chinese cyberspace. And that anger has been directed not just at the producers accused of adulterating their milk to increase profits, but also at government regulators. "Xinhua was quick to blame the dairy industry for their skewed rules, but what it didn't say was that the government also played a part in that ugly game," wrote a blogger identified as sadmoon109. Outraged citizens have noted that, in May, China's food-safety administration issued a report saying that 99.1% of baby milk...
There's a furious argument over whether shorts hastened the demise of Lehman and AIG, cutting the off their oxygen when it was desperately needed. And some have laid the blame at the feet of SEC commissioner Cox. "Chris Cox is responsible for the largest destruction of wealth in U.S. history," hissed Mad Money maestro Jim Cramer on his CNBC show on Tuesday. "Because of Cox, the shorts won." (Republican nominee John McCain called Thursday for Cox to be fired - the same Cox some conservatives touted as a possible running mate earlier this year. President Bush said he fully supports...
...where to assign blame for the ongoing market turmoil, the economists named the usual suspects: reckless mortgage lenders, government mortgage bond insurers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, bond rating agencies, the investment bankers who bought securitized home loans, and the government for failing to properly regulate investment banks and other less transparent securities markets...
...There are so many people to blame you don’t know where to start,” Rogoff said...