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Tanuki

(14,920 posts)
Sat Jan 18, 2020, 11:38 AM Jan 2020

Jeffrey Sachs, the Susan Sarandon of Economics

I haven't heard any remorse from him over everything he did to sabotage HRC and ultimately facilitate the election of the incumbent monster. An example:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.commondreams.org/views/2016/02/05/hillary-candidate-war-machine%3famp

"There's no doubt that Hillary is the candidate of Wall Street. Even more dangerous, though, is that she is the candidate of the military-industrial complex. The idea that she is bad on the corporate issues but good on national security has it wrong. Her so-called foreign policy "experience" has been to support every war demanded by the US deep security state run by the military and the CIA.

Hillary and Bill Clinton's close relations with Wall Street helped to stoke two financial bubbles (1999-2000 and 2005-8) and the Great Recession that followed Lehman's collapse. In the 1990s they pushed financial deregulation for their campaign backers that in turn let loose the worst demons of financial manipulation, toxic assets, financial fraud, and eventually collapse. "...(more at link, if you have a strong stonach)

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