M. Jay Wells: “Why the Mortgage Crisis Happened”
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M. Jay Wells: “Why the Mortgage Crisis Happened”
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Abstract
[Barack] Obama’s economic narrative of the mortgage crisis ignores the facts. He has put free-market capitalism at the root of the current mortgage industry debacle, denying the real history of government interference in that market. On September 15, with banking giant Lehman Brothers filing for bankruptcy protection, Obama was given the opening to begin weaving his anti-capitalist storyline. And that he did.
Contents
- Globalization
- Deng Xiaoping: “Emancipate the Mind”
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn: “A World Split Apart”
- Nelson Mandela: “We Have Waited Too Long for Our Freedom”
- Aung San Suu Kyi: “Freedom from Fear”
- Benjamin R. Barber: “Jihad vs. McWorld”
- Nelson Mandela: Inaugural Address
- UN Human Rights Report on Zaire
- Osama bin Laden: Declaration of Jihad against Americans
- Interview with the Dalai Lama on China, Hatred, and Optimism
- Óscar Arias: “Thoughts on Peace”
- Condoleezza Rice: Keynote Address at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum
- Joschka Fischer: From Confederacy to Federation
- Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in US
- Robert C. Byrd: “We Stand Passively Mute” Speech
- George W. Bush: Address to the Nation on Military Operations in Iraq
- Hugo Chávez: Speech at the Opening of the Twelfth G-15 Summit
- Taguba Report
- 9/11 Commission Report
- Ariel Sharon: Speech to the UN General Assembly
- Condoleezza Rice: “International Support for Iraqi Democracy”
- M. Jay Wells: “Why the Mortgage Crisis Happened”
- Geir Haarde: Statement on Financial Crisis in Iceland
- Alexander Jung: “Ponzi Planet: The Danger Debt Poses to the Western World”
- UN Arms Trade Treaty
- Benjamin Netanyahu: Speech to the UN General Assembly
- Hassan Rouhani: Letter to the UN General Assembly
- Abdullah II: Remarks to the UN General Assembly
- Viktor Orbán: Speech at the 25th Bálványos Summer Free University and Student Camp
- Alexis Tsipras: Speech on Debt Referendum