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...never again adopt a laissez-faire approach to Wall Street. After Black Monday, the Asian crisis, Long-Term Capital Management's meltdown, the Internet bust, the Enron scandal, WorldCom's collapse and the subprime crisis, there is nothing conservative about turning a blind eye to reckless speculation and greed...
...White House press conference, Obama thanked most of the major players for their let's-all-take-our-medicine determination, but he criticized a group of financial firms - the holdouts - for their unpatriotic greed. "While many stakeholders made sacrifices," Obama said, "a group of investment firms and hedge funds decided to hold out for the prospect of an unjustified taxpayer-funded bailout." And then he added, "I do not stand with them...
...students are likely to encounter SLAM’s campaign against layoffs on an average stroll through the yard—perhaps in the form of student activists holding signs, waving banners, or sporting screen-printed t-shirts branded with SLAM’s polemical slogan, “Greed is the New Crimson.” As the school year draws to a close, the campaign has been ramping up its activities and turning heads. The question is: will SLAM be able to turn the right heads—the heads that make budgeting decisions—before students...
...hope that those with an overabundance of "things" will recognize that because of a pervasive sense of greed and entitlement, many have lost all they worked for. Maybe as a nation we will develop a conscience and realize the harm we've done. Mary Jo Lisborg, Fayetteville...
Over the past 20 years of excess, millions of American families have lived prudently, even as incomes stagnated and good job opportunities vanished. Most of us know what is good for America; we used to live there before the Washington-Wall Street axis of greed wrecked it for so many of us. By declaring that "there is plenty of blame to go around," TIME has joined Washington in excusing the government's negligence and creating the crisis. Ray Damani, SPARTANBURG...