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...Roots of the Problem How did this happen, and why over the past 14 months have we suddenly seen so much to fear? Think of it as payback. Fear is so pervasive today because for years the financial markets - and many borrowers - showed no fear at all. Wall Streeters didn't have to worry about regulation, which was in disrepute, and they didn't worry about risk, which had supposedly been magically whisked away by all sorts of spiffy nouveau products - derivatives like credit-default swaps. (More on those later.) This lack of fear became a hothouse of greed...
...call from the U.N. and they ask if I can show up at this address at 7:25 a.m.” Palmer relates. “I say, ‘No problem, of course I can come.’” The surprise passenger ended up being...
...McCain's lies have ranged from the annoying to the sleazy, and the problem is in both degree and kind. His campaign has been a ceaseless assault on his opponent's character and policies, featuring a consistent-and witting-disdain for the truth. Even after 38 million Americans heard Obama say in his speech at the Democratic National Convention that he was open to offshore oil-drilling and building new nuclear-power plants, McCain flatly said in his acceptance speech that Obama opposed both. Normal political practice would be for McCain to say, "Obama says he's 'open to' offshore...
...recklessness with which McCain chose her. McCain's assault on the "élite media" for spreading rumors about Palin's personal life - actually, the culprits were a few bloggers and the tabloid press - was more of the same. And that gets us close to the real problem here. The McCain camp has decided that its candidate can't win honorably, on the issues, so it has resorted to transparent and phony diversions...
...rich people. Sarah Palin wears glasses that cost $300. McCain's wife wears Gucci clothes. Which means they don't know anything about people like me." Into that stew of assumptions, she adds, "I hear that Obama's a Muslim. If he is a Muslim, that would be a problem, because the terrorists already attacked...