Former Sen. Alan Simpson, co-chair of the president’s National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, was up to his usual antics the other day, calling Social Security “a milk cow with 310 million tits.” He’s apologized for that, after a fashion. The important thing, however, isn’t what he thinks, but whether his colleagues on the [...]
Archive for August, 2010
I Didn’t know Krugman Could Read Geithner’s Mind
What Krugman suspected – that high unemployment just doesn’t matter that much anymore to our political leaders, and in fact is the new normal – appears to be just what Tim Geithner is willing to settle for. Paul Krugman was saying what a lot of people were already thinking on Sunday, when he described a [...]
