Flashback 2010 to The Wall Street Journal :
One thing is clear about the new chair of the New York Federal Reserve. Lee Bollinger believes in the power of government intervention.Lee Bollinger: a man hostile to a free market in virtually everything. You'd like big government also if federal taxes dollars wind up in your bank account via Columbia No word yet on when Lee and Columbia University plan on attempting to "steal" more property around Columbia University through eminent domain. Where would Mattress Girl be today without Lee Bollinger's un-American leadership at Columbia enabling her to walk around campus yelling rape?
As president of Columbia University, he leaned on the government to exercise its power of eminent domain to facilitate the university’s acquisition of property to develop a campus in West Harlem. The seized property is being used for a $6 billion, 17- acre expansion of Columbia.
Last week, he made waves in journalist circles and beyond when he argued for more U.S. government-subsidized media companies to staunch the economic (and journalistic) decline of many privately funded news organizations.