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What's worse: a national depression or a lost World Series?
Yesterday, Rep. John Yarmuth, a Democrat from Kentucky, lit into the once-sainted Alan Greenspan -- as many other lawmakers did --for his staunch opposition to regulating the behavior of the mortgage and credit industries.
Yarmuth went so far as to call Greenspan the financial world's "Bill Buckner."
The lawmaker's slur was seriously out of date. Hadn't he heard of this?
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Christopher Shea covers intellectual affairs and is the former "Critical
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