And Suddenly Things Change

“The global economy is becoming unburdened by what has been.” — Jordan Schachtel on “X”

Note: Forgive formatting oddities. . . Writing on clunky iPad away from home. . . .

That two-by-four upside our country’s head you’ve been waiting to get whomped with? Looks like it’s landing now. We got a banger in 2008, but it didn’t make an much of an impression. Maybe you don’t even remember these people, but then Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson and Fed Chair Ben Bernanke came in like a code blue squad an...