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Advantage, to have the appearance of inside influence. foreign governments live for moments like this and smart administrations understand that and want to protect themselves. in the two cases that you re citing with qatar and the chinese, i don t need to know whether or not there s been an actual payoff to know that it stinks to have the appearance and as richard said to be discussing this. that s the opposite of what governments should do. with qatar they ve gone back and forth, they were with the saudis, then they ve been seeming to be demanding rapprochement with cut fqatar i recent weeks. well, let s talk again about how bad the appearances are and how no other administration would be this reckless or ....
Independent moody s and s&p looking to down grade our debt. it s not because we didn t spend enough. that s what makes me think the civil unrest like we are seeing greece could ultimately happen here if we don t address the long-term liabilities that this country is facing. not because of the court system, proper function of the government. entitlement state that dean wants to expand. laura: it s complicated analysis to some extent how we got here. a lot of different moving parts. one of them was obviously federal management of the home loan business with fanny and freddie. i mean, you go back to the beginning of the housing problem, we had the fed with easy money. we had low interest rates for a low time. it was churn and burn with these mortgages. fanny and freddie were at the crux of this problem. we had a rot of inside influence from capitol hill on down. that s government. the worst mortgages were not fanny and freddie. far and away the worst goldman sachs, morgan stanley. t ....
Independent moody s and s&p looking to down grade our debt. it s not because we didn t spend enough. that s what makes me think the civil unrest like we are seeing greece could ultimately happen here if we don t address the long-term liabilities that this country is facing. not because of the court system, proper function of the government. entitlement state that dean wants to expand. laura: it s complicated analysis to some extent how we got here. a lot of different moving parts. one of them was obviously federal management of the home loan business with fanny and freddie. i mean, you go back to the beginning of the housing problem, we had the fed with easy money. we had low interest rates for a low time. it was churn and burn with these mortgages. fanny and freddie were at the crux of this problem. we had a rot of inside influence from capitol hill on down. that s government. the worst mortgages were not fanny and freddie. far and away the worst goldman sachs, morgan stanley. t ....
Independent moody s and s&p looking to down grade our debt. it s not because we didn t spend enough. that s what makes me think the civil unrest like we are seeing greece could ultimately happen here if we don t address the long-term liabilities that this country is facing. not because of the court system, proper function of the government. entitlement state that dean wants to expand. laura: it s complicated analysis to some extent how we got here. a lot of different moving parts. one of them was obviously federal management of the home loan business with fanny and freddie. i mean, you go back to the beginning of the housing problem, we had the fed with easy money. we had low interest rates for a low time. it was churn and burn with these mortgages. fanny and freddie were at the crux of this problem. we had a rot of inside influence from capitol hill on down. that s government. the worst mortgages were not fanny and freddie. far and away the worst goldman sachs, morgan stanley. t ....