How AEI Kneecapped the Financial Crisis Commission

When it came time for the bipartisan Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission to unveil its final report on the causes of the worst economic meltdown since the Great Depression, the commission's 11 members were bitterly divided. In the end, the FCIC's Republicans refused to put their names on the commission's final report. Instead, they released their own questionable narrative of what caused the crisis. Then there was Republican commissioner Peter Wallison, ... Full Story »

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Dwight Rousu
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by Dwight Rousu - Jul. 20, 2011

Good presentation of the oversight board findings.

The tables are turned on the repugnantcons, who indignantly accused the dems of improprieties, when an oversight board report finds gross repugnant conflict of interest ignoring facts in order to propagandize for their richly financed house of dogma.

“The documents raise significant new questions about whether Republican Commissioners geared their efforts on the Commission toward helping House Republicans in their campaign to repeal the Dodd-Frank Act, rather than determining the facts that led to the economic crisis,”

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