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LOSING THE FANNIE AND FREDDIE CAPS: WHERE?S THE OUTRAGE? Sometimes I?m amazed at the speed wit?

By Glenn Reynolds

LOSING THE FANNIE AND FREDDIE CAPS: WHERE’S THE OUTRAGE?

Sometimes I?m amazed at the speed with which highly provocative information like this GSE business can be converted into distracting propaganda in this country. In the right hands Pinto?s analysis of the GSEs ? just like the revelations in the past few years about practices at AIG, Moody?s, Countrywide, Goldman Sachs, the Fed, and, hell, let?s add the offices of Senator Chris Dodd ? would have been a starting point for a deeper investigation into a financial system that is clearly a complex and intimate symbiosis of state and private corruption.

I’m noticing an increasing overlap in themes from people on the left and the right here.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on January 05, 2010 (boomark / email).