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Your wheel of blame was missing a crucial player: Ayn Rand. She was former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's free-market guru. Like President George W. Bush, Greenspan's belief in free markets blinded him to the dangers inherent in the subprime-mortgage market. How else can one explain...
Why did you assign more blame to President Bush and Greenspan than you did to home buyers? Home buyers made a conscious decision to extend themselves beyond their means; they are the ones who need to be held most accountable. Mortgage lenders were certainly greedy, but it was also greed...
In NUDGE: IMPROVING DECISIONS ABOUT HEALTH, WEALTH, AND HAPPINESS (Yale University Press; 293 pages), the two University of Chicago professors sketch a new approach to public policy that takes into account the odd realities of human behavior, like the deep and unthinking tendency to conform, even in areas--like energy...
Obama did add his old hope riff at the end of a question-and-answer session later in Scranton, Pa., but it seemed an afterthought. The bulk of his presentation, especially the Q&A, was solid protein. He offered Hillaryesque, do-good details: If we return to the national obesity...
Bush's Treasury Department unveiled proposed changes in the regulatory scope and power of America's corporate and financial overseers Monday that are beyond anything seen since Roosevelt warned Americans beset by failed banks, food lines and 30% unemployment that they had nothing to fear but fear itself. With today...