Read Excerpts From “13 Bankers”

I’m reading Simon Johnson and James Kwak’s new book — “13 Bankers, the Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown” – and posting a summary and excerpts of each chapter. Here is my progress so far:

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Sherrod Brown finds his party catching up to him

Sherrod BrownSherrod Brown doesn’t say “I told you so,” although he might have a right to, given the things that have changed since his election.

The war in Iraq and its overwhelming unpopularity is one. And the tainted pet food and toys recalled recently after their import from China are another, suggesting that maybe Brown wasn’t so far out when he warned against shuttering Ohio factories and trading with low-wage countries with lousy safety standards.

“It should hardly have come as a surprise” when we import so much “from a country that has no real food safety, worker safety, consumer protection or wage laws,” he says.

For reasons that he says give him no joy, the mood in this country has shifted much more closely to the sentiment of Ohio’s 54-year-old freshman senator.

Continuing reading – Sherrod Brown finds his party catching up to him

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2 comments to Sherrod Brown finds his party catching up to him

  • Lowell Varney

    Senator Brown;
    As you know Osama Bin-Ladin’s handbook on how to break a superpower nation is to get them bogged down in a war, and break their economy. We went from a surplus 5 years ago to an eight trillion debt. At this rate we will cease to be a super power nation soon.
    Also we need for government to represent citizens interest over the whims of large corporations, who want to ruin the lives of the middle class.
    We need to stop the flow of people from Mexico.

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