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Ellen Goodman

The tattered ideology of personal responsibility

By Ellen Goodman
September 26, 2008

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IN THE GOSPEL according to Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, "there are no atheists in foxholes and no ideologues in financial crises." Suddenly, we are all pragmatists, trying to dig our way out of the Wall Street rubble with whatever tools are at hand. (Full article: 707 words)

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