Who is most responsible for the current financial crisis?

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Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN)
	The federal government is most responsible for the current financial crisis. Bush Administration caused this crisis.
	9/22/2009 10:07:28 AM

Jon Fleischman
	Consumers are most responsible for the current financial crisis. voluntarily except in only a small fraction of cases of fraud,
	12/20/2008 8:03:18 PM

John Olver (D-MA)
	The federal government is most responsible for the current financial crisis. Olver is blaming the Federal Government
	12/13/2008 1:12:16 PM

Patrick J. Kennedy (D-RI)
	The federal government is most responsible for the current financial crisis. Republicans have let Wall Street run wild, rolling up huge profits for the rich, with minimal government oversight while working people struggled just to keep their heads above water
	12/11/2008 4:38:53 PM

Deroy Murdock
	The federal government is most responsible for the current financial crisis. "Bipolar bailout disorder"
	12/11/2008 4:26:00 PM

Ben Stein
	The federal government is most responsible for the current financial crisis. this crisis - in which a vast number of the nation's banks and insurers were basically insolvent - did not happen by accident. It happened because of the government's policy of deregulation and lack of enforcement of laws on Wall Street happened.
	12/10/2008 6:51:18 PM

Stephen Lynch (D-MA)
	Financial Institutions are most responsible for the current financial crisis. However, this one simple fact, that the firms who led us into this mess and those who most directly benefit from this bailout are not being asked to pay any of the cost of their own rescue
	12/10/2008 3:43:38 PM

Nita Lowey (D-NY)
	The federal government is most responsible for the current financial crisis. It is increasingly evident that the economic crisis resulting from the Bush Administration’s failed policies
	12/9/2008 9:18:45 PM

Ayman al-Zawahiri
	The federal government is most responsible for the current financial crisis. This crisis is one of ... the series of American economic hemorrhages after the strikes of September 11... And these...will continue as long as the foolish American policy of wading in Muslim blood continues.
	12/9/2008 3:32:20 PM

Tom Coburn (R-OK)
	The federal government is most responsible for the current financial crisis. The root of the problem is political greed in Congress.
	11/18/2008 7:53:30 PM

Daniel Gross
	Financial Institutions are most responsible for the current financial crisis. Investment banks creating demand for subprime loans are to blame
	11/18/2008 7:38:53 PM

Carly Fiorina
	Financial Institutions are most responsible for the current financial crisis. But they were also poorly understood, they weren't particularly transparent, people began to forget about risk, and the boom cycle inevitably became a bust.
	11/18/2008 7:37:09 PM

Investor's Business Daily
	The federal government is most responsible for the current financial crisis. the seed was planted in the '90s by Clinton and his social engineers. They were the political catalyst behind this slow-motion financial train wreck.
	11/18/2008 7:33:30 PM

John Gard (R-WI)
	The federal government is most responsible for the current financial crisis. Gard blamed lack of oversight and said Congress’ “fingerprints are all over this disaster.”
	11/18/2008 2:24:56 PM

Matt Taibbi
	Financial Institutions are most responsible for the current financial crisis. "It's a classic bubble/Ponzi scheme"
	11/18/2008 2:13:10 PM

Joseph E. Stiglitz
	Financial Institutions are most responsible for the current financial crisis. "America's financial system failed in its two crucial responsibilities: managing risk and allocating capital."
	11/18/2008 2:10:41 PM

Sebastian Mallaby
	Financial Institutions are most responsible for the current financial crisis. Investment and commercial banks that purchased toxic mortgages were responsible
	11/18/2008 2:10:00 PM

Dean Baker
	The federal government is most responsible for the current financial crisis. ...the stage was set during the Clinton years.
	11/18/2008 12:50:39 PM

Robert Samuelson
	Financial Institutions are most responsible for the current financial crisis. "...its origins lie in the ways that Wall Street...has changed since 1980."
	11/18/2008 12:49:44 PM

Alan Greenspan
	Financial Institutions are most responsible for the current financial crisis. The consequent surge in global demand for U.S. subprime securities by banks, hedge, and pension funds supported by unrealistically positive rating designations by credit agencies was, in my judgment, the core of the problem.
	11/17/2008 12:19:14 PM