The Economists Who Missed the Housing Bubble Are Coming After Your Social Security
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on February 14th, 2009 5:34 am by HL
The Economists Who Missed the Housing Bubble Are Coming After Your Social Security
Word has it that President Obama intends to appoint a task force the week after next which will be charged with “reforming” Social Security. According to inside gossip, the task force will be led entirely by economists who were not…
Due Diligence, Damn It
Rauchway’s book is an exceptionally valuable pocket summary of the major actions of the New Deal. It solves a big problem for those with small pockets: how to keep enough facts at close hand to answer, with authority, all…
The View From Britain
I have greatly enjoyed these comments from a newer generation of New Deal historians. As someone who started work on the New Deal forty years ago, I have a lot of sympathy with Eric’s lament about ‘writing a book…