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Does Paulson think he can “turn off” the public’s pessimism like a light switch? Does Bernanke think he can get people to spend themselves further into debt by lowering interest rates? It can’t be done. And the Obama camp is going to run into the same brick wall. The nation’s confidence has be...
Paulson demanded, and got from a labile US Congress, Democrat as well as Republican, sole discretion over how and where he can invest the $700 billion, to date with no effective oversight. It amounts to the Treasury Secretary in effect ‘spitting into the wind’ in terms of resolving the fun...