In Defense of Obama: By Paul Krugman

af Cirb Lør Okt 18, 2014 3:47 pm

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/in-defense-of-obama-20141008?page=5

Glimrende artikel- fint overblik over Obamas regeringstid og hvad der egentlig foregår i hovedet på det liberale Amerika.

Let's be clear: The financial crisis should have been followed by a drastic crackdown on Wall Street abuses, and it wasn't. No important figures have gone to jail; bad banks and other financial institutions, from Citigroup to Goldman, were bailed out with few strings attached; and there has been nothing like the wholesale restructuring and reining in of finance that took place in the 1930s. Obama bears a considerable part of the blame for this disappointing response. It was his Treasury secretary and his attorney general who chose to treat finance with kid gloves.

Det er det moderne Amerikas mest indflydelsesrige økonomiske stemme...
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