“We have had to struggle with the old enemies of peace – business and
financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism,
sectionalism, war profiteering.”
I wish these words, spoken in 1936 by Franklin D. Roosevelt, were not
as true today as then. Yet over the past eighteen months this nation
has faced a financial crisis second only to the Great Depression. It is a
crisis that in many ways was predictable and preventable – one that the
smartest experts had seen on the horizon for years. In the end, like
the market crash that fueled the Great Depression, the current financial
crisis may have been inevitable, fueled by systemic flaws that require
systematic repair...............http://goo.gl/uOlZK
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