Steven Landsburg
Steven Landsburg is a professor of economics at Rochester University and author of The Armchair Economist.
Recently by Steven Landsburg
Jan 23 2009, 3:59AM
Why the Bush years weren't so bad
Just five paragraphs into the new administration, President Obama warned us that "we are in the midst of crisis." The last time a president warned that we were in the midst of crisis, we got Abu Ghraib, extraordinary rendition and the TSA.
No doubt the new guy, just like the old guy, will require unprecedented new powers to deal with the unprecedented threat to our well being. Obama is already asking for an unprecedented increase in the size of the national debt. Before we go back down that road, maybe we should stop and ask: "What crisis?''
No doubt the new guy, just like the old guy, will require unprecedented new powers to deal with the unprecedented threat to our well being. Obama is already asking for an unprecedented increase in the size of the national debt. Before we go back down that road, maybe we should stop and ask: "What crisis?''
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