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MBS's avatar

Accessing the window and getting a TARP injection was not the same thing as you well know - the bike analogy is not on point . Our regulations and oversight along with a more conservative attitude towards risk allowed us to survive relatively unscathed. Mark Carney’s leadership and oversight deserves a big chunk of credit along with the diligent job performed by the regulators and our banks’ governance teams. We didn’t let our mortgage underwriters nor our investment and mortgage bankers get out of control as a result - as they did in that wonderful unregulated landscape and home of the brave south of the border.

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Michael Law Cobb's avatar

Said differently, the Communist praxis can be summarized extremely simply:

1) Find people who are struggling

2) Promise them the moon and an end to their struggles through Communism

3) Arrange things so they'll blame anti-Communists when it doesn't work

4) Repeat

And, I want to mention what the now common refrain Fascism really is: simply another form of religious state idolatry just like Marxism/Communism and distinctly un-democratic.It’s not smaller government or the downsizing of government so to call President Trump a fascist is wrong on it’s face.

His chaos strategy is bang on for the times and appropriate to combat the machine politics of his opposition. JD Vance’s speech in Munich was both insightful and inspiring to those so inclined.

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