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Gov. Jindal, Faust and the devil

In an earlier article, “Faust, Greenspan and America’s economic collapse,” I drew an analogy between the folly of Alan Greenspan’s “irrational exuberance” speech, where he continued to lower interest rates leading in part to the collapse of America’s home mortgage industry, with the folly of Goethe’s Faust (“We the People”) making a deal with the devil (Congress, the Executive and the Supreme Court) to guarantee our own destruction by trashing the constitutional framers’ intents – like separation of powers and no taxation without representation.