A Bold Defense of Sin City Stimulus
The notorious Amity Shlaes, the Bloomberg scribe who drives liberals around the bend with her thinly sourced argument that the New Deal was a failure, has
Jul 31, 202043.7K Shares599.4K Views
No, its not parody. Shlaes, who can be fairly classified as a libertarian neocon, is having fun tweakingthe pieties of the liberal left and Christian right in the service of Las Vegas business interests who are complaining to Politicoand any one else who will listen that Obama’s let’s-get-to-work exhortationsprompted TARP-subsidized Goldman Sachs to cancel a scheduled convention in Sin City. As a quipster, Shlaes is amusing. As an economist, her ideas are half-baked, as this contorted passage reveals.
Rhyley Carney
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