9th Circuit, Federal Judges, Quote of the Day, Richard Posner, Stephen Reinhardt

Quote of the Day: Is This an Opinion or an Op-Ed Piece?

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[S]ome of the conclusions of which our leading economic experts have been confident have turned out to be incorrect. For example, Alan Greenspan, appointed and then reappointed Chairman of the Federal Reserve for five terms by four different Presidents, recently admitted to a significant flaw in the ideology that caused him to support and implement policies of financial deregulation…

And Judge Richard Posner, a highly respected jurist and a leading economics expert, has recently expressed his admiration for Keynesian economics, reversing a lifetime of reliance on the Chicago School’s approach.

— Judge Stephen Reinhardt, writing for the Ninth Circuit in State of California v. Safeway, Inc.

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