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Monday, November 17, 2008

The Clown Car for Knee Jerk 'Free Marketeers' is Full Up

I think the unbearable verbal bling of Art Laffer even overwhelms the smugness of the FOX channel, what do you think? (I say that being among those who greatly underestimated the impact of "subprime" and who didn't follow the press on the risky expansion of piggyback-loans and everything else, myself; but I cannot imagine ever being so dismissive as this):

Watch only through about 5:42 or so. The rest is repetitive but still worth seeing:



footnote to Paul Krugman - pay attention to how you make opinion forecasts, because the rightwing media will have their knives out to collect the same from liberal commentators. To be honest, there were elements of it even in Charlie Rose's post Nobel interview, as best I remember it, sadly (and Charlie is seriously one of the more even handed, even if he knows how to do a 'killer' interview, when he wants to, right?).

(h/t Alea blog)