Ben Bernanke: Person of the Year 2009
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on December 17th, 2009 5:31 am by HL
Ben Bernanke: Person of the Year 2009
Michael Grunwald, Time
The Case for Optimism on the Economy
Alan Blinder, Wall Street Journal
The U.S. economy is digging itself out of a deep hole. You have probably heard a lot of doom and gloom lately, including talk of a jobless recovery, an L-shaped recovery (which means no recovery at all), or even a W"”the feared double-dip recession. The Scrooges have a point: There are serious dangers to the nascent recovery. But you've heard all that many times. Let me offer instead, in deliberately one-sided fashion, the case for optimism. It is, after all, the holiday season.The case begins with the “slingshot effect” I wrote about on this page last summer…
Last Sales Pitch: Obama’s False Urgency
Obama Has No Deaf-ense for a Tin Ear
Michael Goodwin, New York Post
Of all the surprises of President Obama's first year, the biggest is his continuing tin ear for the mood of the country. He often appears clueless about what Americans want.
