Well, How Did I Get Here?

Dec 12, 2008 12:24

For anyone interested in a smart (and to my mind, entirely plausible) account of what missteps (dating back to the Reagan administration) brought us to this ... no, I can't say low point, we're still plummeting ... extended crisis, how about that? ... in the US economy and financial sector, you could do a lot worse than reading Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz's piece in Vanity Fair: Capitalist Fools.

Meanwhile, the question was asked just a couple of days ago, whether Rod Blagojavich was merely stupid, or plain crazy. I'm now tempted to ask the same question of the Senate Republican caucus.

republican asshattery, politics, economy

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