Here, is this it?

"Innovation has brought about a multitude of new products, such as subprime loans and niche credit programs for immigrants. . . . With these advances in technology, lenders have taken advantage of credit-scoring models and other techniques for efficiently extending credit to a broader spectrum of consumers. . . .
-Remarks by Chairman Alan Greenspan on Consumer Finance
At the Federal Reserve System’s Fourth Annual Community Affairs Research Conference, Washington, D.C. April 8, 2005

from here
(h/t Mumon at dKos )

Posted at March 11, 2007 9:24 AM in response to Bubble Popping

I take your point that Lieberman is listed as an asterisked Democrat; however, he is running as the candidate for Connecticut for Lieberman (a party of one), and not as an "independent" as listed on the site. In my view, he left the Democratic Party to form his own party. Others have a different view.

Posted at August 21, 2006 8:38 AM in response to The Lieberman Lamont Debate

I doubt that you can produce anything but anecdotes from blog comments or diaries to support your thesis that the left blogosphere is some kind of a cult. As a matter of fact, I challenge you to produce some credible evidence of that.

The only "orthodoxy" that is close to unanimous on our side is that the results of a primary elections ought to be the standard by which the Democratic leadership decides whom to support or not support in a general election.

Why have primary elections if the results are going to be cast aside in order to assuage the massive ego of an insider?

Posted at August 21, 2006 4:54 AM in response to The Lieberman Lamont Debate

The DSCC has both Lamont and Lieberman as Democrats running in Connecticut on their website. Lieberman is running against Lamont. Lieberman formed his own party, Connecticut for Lieberman. Lamont WON the Democratic primary. Lieberman LOST the primary. Why have a primary if the Democratic Party leaders, Tom Carper and Ben Nelson, Mary Landreau and Mark Pryor, are going to actively support the opponent of the legitimate winner of the primary?

The DSCC has a vice chairman who is actively working against the Democratic candidate. They are misrepresentating what they are doing with contributor's money when they state that they are working to elect Democrats to the Senate. They have Senators up for reelection who are actively working against the Democratic candidate for Connecticut. It is no accident that these people are also members of the Gang of 14.

Call it "enforcing party discipline" if you want to, but I call it the betrayal of the Democratic primary voters in Connecticut, and by extension a repudiation of the Democratic rank and file in favor of the comfort and coziness of incumbents.

Why bother to vote if the legitimate results are going to be blithely cast aside when office-holders don't like the results? It's a lot more than just Lamont v. Lieberman.

Posted at August 20, 2006 6:43 PM in response to The Lieberman Lamont Debate

C'mon, Ken. You cannot take a poll conducted by State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research seriously. What are you trying to peddle here?

Posted at July 1, 2005 3:42 PM in response to Meanwhile in Baghdad...