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| Yes | 71% | 111 votes | Total: 156 votes | |
| No | 29% | 45 votes |
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by T. M. Beeker
ENRON was proof positive of this situation. The depth of corruption and blatant manipulation of the market should have resulted in serious criminal charges for numerous leaders ...read more
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by Jeremy Horne
Why should one be surprised about this assertion? People do not understand context.. Think of your little boxes of "campaign contributions) - to whom and BY whom? Think of your...read more
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by Zach Bigalke
It would be foolhardy to declare that campaign contributions and the efforts of lobbyists are the sole factor in why Wall Street has tumbled from its lofty heights in recent mon...read more
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by A.W. Berry
The 2008 Wall street financial meltdown was caused in part by lobbying by the financial sector. The financial problems began in a nexus of lobby supported pro-banking legislatio...read more
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The fear invoked by the stock market crash of 2008 has out trumped the terrorist threat as communities across the U.S. brace themselves for the impact corrupt Wall Street practi...read more
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The Government is the very seat of power and glory of the force of America, but as it is written "...in his place he shall honor the god of forces, and he shall honor a god whom...read more
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by David Nuttle
Over the last two decades, America has suffered a decline in ethical standards. The U.S. financial sector has exploited this fact to effectively "buy" the votes of a majority of...read more
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Yes and no. I believe it is much more complicated than that. I have searched and searched the provisions of the Constitution, and nowhere does it give authority to Congress to...read more
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Over and over again we've heard some variation of the old adage "so goes the financials, so goes the market" and the financials were obviously going down but how many, how far a...read more
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by Greg Brown
I live in Ohio's 8th Congressional district represented by House Minority Leader John Boehner. In his October 10th guest column in the Journal-News www.journal-news.com, John B...read more
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A recession is imminent, the experts say. We're in the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. Americans are not only fearful of what's to come, but also are left won...read more
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by Curtis Lemay
"When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic." Spritely Ben Franklin offered this insight, but under the fatal assumption that ...read more
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by Rayne Britt
I don't believe lobbyists are the reason for this particular problem. I have seen a lot of good ideas and insights into the reasons for the economic break down we have seen in t...read more
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by Lisa Bells
It seems that Wall Street has become the focus of the world, for its financial crisis and then the bailout program. We witnessed the meltdown on Wall Street, and worries spread ...read more
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The meltdown and financial crisis in wall street was caused largely by mortgage crisis in the US. The sublime mortgage crisis came about as a result of a squeeze in the global c...read more
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by Nathan Munro
I'm only writing this because the two articles I was asked to review were so bad that I thought I should contribute. I couldn't even rate which one was better. This is from my...read more
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The causes of the Wall Street Debacle were not limited to Campaign Contributions and Financial Sector Lobbying. There were other causes in this mess that leaves much to be desir...read more
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Global warming caused the housing crisis. More accurately, the myth that GW is man made has been the canard used by opponents of carbon based energy development. When discussing...read more
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Out with the old and in with the new We have approached a unique place in he history of the modern world. A new world if i may say. The United States is a unique experiment in ...read more
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