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Jim Freeman

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Jim Freeman's op-ed pieces and commentaries have appeared in The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, International Herald-Tribune, CNN, The New York Review, The Jon Stewart Daily Show and a number of magazines. His thirteen published books are available at Amazon.

Websites at www.Jim-Freeman.com and www.dark-side-of-the-moon.com

I am politically left of center, tempered by respect for some of the thought on the right. It's the partisan intransigence I have opposition to and always try to frame my commentary from a thoughtful rather than outraged point of view. God knows there is enough to be outraged about, but that doesn't serve a useful purpose. We need coming together, not further distance.

I'm not young, having lived in portions of eight decades, but it gives me a sense of perspective, having experienced a goodly part of our history. I was there before TV, there when Wall Street gave sound advice, there when we knew our neighbors and banks were local. Many of my readers were alive and working before the internet, Wal-Mart and McDonalds--but damned few personally remember FDR, Truman and Eisenhower.

It's been a wonderful experience, but I have never had reason to fear for the future of my nation and I'm very deeply concerned at the moment. Essentially a novelist, I felt the Clinton impeachment and Bush administration left me little choice but to set aside fiction and speak out publicly. That's not a choice I regret, but I am sad for the circumstances that require it.

www.jim-freeman.com

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       Saturday, September 12, 2009
HATE THE CORRUPTER, LOVE THE CORRUPT
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Concerts and the Wizards? He's on trial for concert and sports tickets?
       Saturday, May 16, 2009
1,015 AMERICANS PROVIDE A DRAMATIC AND MEANINGLESS HEADLINE
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Releasing the result of the poll a day ahead of President Obama's Notre Dame commencement speech does matter, in that the sign-carriers will now be up all night, perfecting their protest technique.
       Tuesday, April 14, 2009
A NO-PIRATE ZONE FOR THE GULF OF ADEN
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       Sunday, April 12, 2009
STUFF THAT LEAKS OUT ON SUNDAYS
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Investments Can Yield More on K Street, Study Indicates
(1 comments)        Friday, October 17, 2008
HOME AUCTIONS--KILLING HOMEOWNERS AND BANKS
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(2 comments)        Tuesday, October 14, 2008
THE IRONY OF SENATOR SCHUMER ON EXECUTIVE PAY
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       Monday, October 13, 2008
CAPITAL IS DOING JUST FINE WITH REGARD TO BANKS
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       Saturday, October 11, 2008
CHRYSLER--A LIKEABLE ROUNDHEELS--WILL SELL ITSELF TO ANYONE
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What a grand old business the management in Detroit has managed to muck up. Oldsmobile, Packard, Studebaker, Hudson, LaSalle and the venerable old badge, Duesenberg--all gone to the collector's. The chairmen of Ford, Chrysler and GM are all hired guns, veritable undertakers somberly marching their once great companies to the graveyard.
       Saturday, October 11, 2008
AT LAST--AN IRAQ EXIT STRATEGY SUPPORTED BY THE MEDIA
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       Friday, October 10, 2008
"NEVER SEEN PANIC LIKE THIS" IS THE CENTRAL PROBLEM
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How do these people get to be chief economists at rating agencies?
(2 comments)        Thursday, October 9, 2008
A BAIL-OUT LIMERICK, By Jim Freeman
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(1 comments)        Thursday, October 9, 2008
AT LAST--BANKS NOW UNWILLING TO LEND AT A BETTER RATE
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Absurdly low interest rates are, of course, how Alan Greenspan got us here in the first place. But hey, when all else fails, go back to what is tried and untrue.
(1 comments)        Tuesday, October 7, 2008
BAILING OUT WOODEN ARROWS WITH WOODEN NICKELS
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In case you missed the point of the failure in the House of Representatives to pass Hank Paulson's giveaway to his former partners in crime over at Goldman Sachs, it was to provide political cover for the coming election, while allowing the Senate to unashamedly lard the legislation.
(2 comments)        Sunday, October 5, 2008
DEFUSING A BAR-FIGHT BY HANDING ONE GUY A BROKEN BOTTLE
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       Friday, October 3, 2008
SWAPPED OUT OF OUR UNDERWEAR BY CREDIT DEFAULTS
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(4 comments)        Thursday, October 2, 2008
THE PELOSI HOUSE--ROTTEN TO ITS VERY FOUNDATION
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       Wednesday, October 1, 2008
DEFINE "CONSTITUENT"
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(1 comments)        Tuesday, September 30, 2008
"THEY JUST DON'T GET IT" WAILS WALL STREET
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       Monday, September 29, 2008
THE PAULSON-DRIVEN MARSHALL PLAN
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(1 comments)        Friday, September 26, 2008
THOSE WHO EAT AND THOSE WHO SERVE
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The 9,000 bank presidents who are doing just fine and stayed out of the feeding-frenzy of fraudulent mortgages, have one thing in common.

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