Great post over at Mother Jones which is rapidly becoming one of my top sites to read.
They look at the 10 people that have made the most of the current financial crisis and surprisngly in there or maybe not is Sir Fred Goodwin along with Prem Watsa,Canada's version of Warren Buffett,who
made a killing betting against financial companies like American International Group (AIG). In 2008, his company, Fairfax Financial Holdings, had its best year in its 23-year history. Its book value was up 21 percent on the year and its $1.1 billion in earnings made Fairfax Canada's most profitable corporation.
And then at the end someone long dead but brought back to the foreground in recent months,John Maynard Keynes who it says
"The essential framework constructed by Keynes—that recessions are caused by a failure of demand, and that at the very least government should not respond to an economic slowdown by paring back its largesse—is no longer in dispute
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