Glen Hubbard Alert!
Update: Strong Letters to the Editor response to Hubbard opinion
Readers of Glenn Hubbard’s NY Times November 15 op-ed would be well advised to consider his observation in the context of Charles Fergusson’s incisive and damning documentary, “Inside Job,” in which Dean Glenn Hubbard played an unapologetic and uncomfortable supporting role as an architect our current financial chaos. Indeed, as Dean Hubbard smugly asserts in his broadside, “we have designed entitlements for a welfare state we cannot afford.” Glenn Hubbard was one of its principle architects are the richest sliver of our population, for whom he was an appointed facilitator in government, finance and academia. Helping to build and sell the duplicitous house of cards that has tumbled down and is crushing middle-class and working-class Americans and their counterparts worldwide.
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November 16th, 2010 @ 12:27 pm
And Hubbard was the nasty one:
During the film, the interviewer attempts to get Hubbard to discuss his outside business relationships. Hubbard’s response is to angrily retort, “I don’t believe I have to discuss that with you…this is not a deposition, sir…this interview is over in three minutes…give it your BEST SHOT.”