The crash of 2008 was driven in no small part by unfair practices in the mortgage industry which led to many consumers being trapped in loans they didn’t understand and couldn’t afford.
AL FRANKENMinnesotans lost their jobs because the credit rating agencies didn’t do the only job they’re supposed to have.
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My parents didn’t make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate.
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But I think it’s a good thing. Some people thought that it was an odd career arc, but to me it made absolute sense.
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Most people would rather be uncertain some of the time than 100% positive all the time – even when they’re wrong.
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Being a comedian, you’re under pressure. You have to deal with stress and pressure to perform – to deal with pressure without stress.
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Asking the question whether the mainstream media has a liberal or conservative bias is like asking whether al Qaeda uses too much oil in their hummus.
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Skepticism turns to cynicism, which leads to apathy and despair, which can cause sleeplessness, dry-mouth, and loss of sex drive?
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I’m angry at the right wing media. And by that I don’t mean the media is right wing.
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Liberals don’t hate America. We love America more than Ann Coulter does. I love it enough to engage my readers honestly.
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Too many people don’t protect their smartphones with a password or PIN.
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I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents.
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Liberals like me love America. We just love America in a different way.
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Most of us here in the media are what I call infotainers…
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The only job they had, which is to give accurate, objective ratings to financial products.
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Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn and ridicule.
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When the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries.
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