Robert Samuelson Hangs It Up

Robert Samuelson, the Washington Post columnist who has provided so much material for this blog over the years, announced his retirement today. I’ll take this opportunity to agree with a couple of points he made in his final column.

Samuelson notes the work that Treasury secretaries Henry Paulson and Timothy Geithner, along with Federal Reserve Board Chair Ben Bernanke did to combat the Great Recession, and then says “but that doesn’t excuse their failure to anticipate the housing boom and to pr...