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Quote of the Day: Jerry Markham

By Barry Barnett on September 20, 2008

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Prof. Markham’s opus ranks a robust 1,210,641 on amazon.com.  It also sports 0 amazon reviewers.

Fresh from Bloomberg, Florida International College of Law at Miami professor Jerry Markham said, in connection with an administration request for what the news service calls “unchecked power to buy $700 billion in bad mortgage investments from U.S. financial companies in what would be an unprecedented government intrusion into the markets”, that:

What you don’t want [to] happen is to have lawsuits that will slow things down and cause problems.

Professor Markham has published, among other stuff, “Excessive Executive Compensation — Why Bother”, “Privatizing Social Security”, and “How the Feds Stacked the Deck Against Enron”.

Blawgletter would prefer, btw, that federal judges hold onto their authority to enforce, faithfully, the law.

Feedicon14x14Pretty soon you’re talking real money.

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