Can't Anybody Play This Game? Diagnosing Our Economic Ills

Why oh why can't we have a better press corps?

The leader in the Economist:

Global economic policy: Austerity alarm | The Economist: supporters of the shift to austerity believe it is both essential and appropriate: deficit spending cannot go on for ever, and by boosting firms’ and households’ confidence and lowering the risk premium on government debt, well-designed fiscal consolidation can actually boost growth. Jean-Claude Trichet, president of the European Central Bank, argues that...