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To: GOPJ

The theory that our financial crisis has at its root cause a demographic imbalance comes from David P. Goldman, who held
senior research positions at Bear Stearns, Credit Suisse and Bank of America. At Bank of America he ran a highly rated fixed income research department between 2002 to 2005, with 120 professionals and mid-nine-figure compensation budget. David P. Goldman now blogs at Inner Workings and at First Things under the name “Spengler.”


3 posted on 09/26/2009 4:38:14 PM PDT by WayneLusvardi (It's more complex than it might seem)
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To: WayneLusvardi
There are well spoken - terribly important people - with massive credentials on all sides of this issue. I disagreed with one small part of the article.

As far as this crisis being rooted in the baby boomer demographic - I agree. There would have been a crisis even without the stupid self serving changes make to banking rules and regulations. But would the economic system have come this close to collapse with ONLY the boomer demographic? I think NOT...

Next time, WayneLusvardi, I'll be more careful and thoughtful with my comment - because you are right ( if I'm reading between the lines properly ) I was flippant - and my comment wasn't as well thought out as it could have been. The man is worthy of a better read than I gave him.

4 posted on 09/27/2009 10:20:10 AM PDT by GOPJ (UN mixing democracies & dictator's like mixing ice cream and shit-all of it stinks.(Steyn))
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