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...ability of real estate, which has always had a slightly rakish air, to drag even the most respectable and conservative parts of the economy down with it. Other problem areas, like Social Security, also have a Ponzi-scheme flavor: the claims on some pile of money exceed the size of the pile. In many of these schemes, the average American plays both the victim and Ponzi himself...
...SEAS has also seen an increase in its graduate applicant pool and has increased the size of its Ph.D. classes...
...same time, we're always on the lookout for the next gold rush, the next Powerball, the next bubble. The fact that Wall Street banks were recently borrowing 30 or 40 times their available capital to place bets that home buyers would pay off mortgages 10 times the size of their annual paychecks suggests that America's cultural pendulum has swung too far in the direction of the casino. And Obama hasn't yet shown he's the man to put us back in touch with our thrifty side...
...Neither of these men is an economist, and after eight years of an MBA President, America will forgive them for that. What we seek is a leader who can size up a problem, explain it in a way that seems both true and hopeful and match the nation's priorities to its needs. Here's the crisis - which man is up to it? They have a month left to give us their answers...
...Obama's Infrastructure Bank illustrates two other principles that could work to the next President's advantage. First, at a cost of $6 billion per year, it is less than 1/100th the size of the proposed financial bailout - a lot of programs that used to sound big seem like peanuts now. Second, it is a program that would create jobs and strengthen the economy. The next President will have to argue that any new policy program will be an investment in economic growth. Given the budgetary realities, it will be easier to get money through Congress for energy programs that...