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Actually, I haven't read the book yet, but I read the teaser on Alternet.org.
Since I've heard Joe Scarborough profess 100 times too many (I'm paraphrasing)how, "No-one could have predicted the financial collapse...blah, blah" Dean Baker's writing is comforting.
Baker simply stating, "Anyone with common sense, a grasp of simple arithmetic and a desire to go against the consensus should have seen the financial crisis coming" is comforting in so many ways.
Yes, I can add (my moniker) and now I know I'm not insane.
I do like common sense, so I plan on reading the book.
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Plunder and Blunder: The Rise and Fall of the Bubble Economy by Dean Baker
icanadd, February 9, 2009
Actually, I haven't read the book yet, but I read the teaser on Alternet.org.Since I've heard Joe Scarborough profess 100 times too many (I'm paraphrasing)how, "No-one could have predicted the financial collapse...blah, blah" Dean Baker's writing is comforting.
Baker simply stating, "Anyone with common sense, a grasp of simple arithmetic and a desire to go against the consensus should have seen the financial crisis coming" is comforting in so many ways.
Yes, I can add (my moniker) and now I know I'm not insane.
I do like common sense, so I plan on reading the book.
(6 of 11 readers found this comment helpful)