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Obama=Ozymandias
Call me cynical and predisposed to conspiracy, but I find the current outrage expressed by Obama and his administration over AIG a bit…Machiavellean. First, on Sunday, his technocrat underlings express frustration on the talk show circuit. We have Larry Summers … Continue reading
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Larry Says Government to Spend Trillions Wisely
Summers outlines Obama’s stimulus plan in very broad strokes. One gobbit caught my eye: Some argue that instead of attempting to both create jobs and invest in our long-run growth, we should focus exclusively on short-term policies that generate consumer … Continue reading
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Obama is the Next Bush
So says the always respectable, if heretical Steve Landsburg. He writes: McCain is not Bush. This came as a surprise to me. I’d been assuming, in my ill-read, uneducated way, that McCain had been complicit in most of the great travesties of … Continue reading
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Obama’s and McCain’s Soft Thinking
On the underlying causes of the current crisis, Obama says in the New York Times: “The problem that we have in part has to do with wages and incomes that have been flat. And so homeowners and ordinary families out … Continue reading
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