Friday, June 14, 2013

Not Shocking

An article from Bloomberg quoting Thomas Simons, an economist from Jefferies:

The fiscal picture has a very long way to go before it is on a sustainable path...the effect of the S&P ratings outlook revision takes some of the heat off Congress in the near term to address the deficit.

That attitude tells you a lot. No one is actually serious about reform. If they can avoid it, they will. And they won’t do something about it until the crisis is already here.

Broken Money

The subtitle is Why Our Financial System is Failing Us and How We Can Make it Better , and the author is Lyn Alden (2023). I feel like I hav...