Obama’s Flunking Economy: The Real Cause

Indeed, the greatest confidence man of the last few years, at least going by Suskind’s definition, was not Larry Summers or Timothy Geithner, but Barack Obama. Being a confidence man is almost in the job description of the insurgent presidential candidate. Having not been president before, you must, by definition, ask the American people for a trust you have not earned.

Author: Ezra Klein
Published: Nov 24, 2011
Length: 18 minutes (4,573 words)
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