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Sunday, March 29, 2009 12:00 AM

Is Obama wrong?

Newsweek hypes the Krugman-Obama-Geithner clash and trivializes the real conflict: financial oligarchs vs. the rest of us.

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  • Monday, March 30, 2009 01:50 AM

    Bob Jacobson...

    Your post...

    Could it be that Obama is giving the conventional thinkers rope to hang their theories? And when they fail, he will bring in the radical economists?

    ...is of the 11th Dimensional Chess variety, or so it seems to me. Click my signature for a link to Glenn Greenwald's blog at Salon if the reference is unfamiliar.

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