David Wessel writes about Barack Obama's economic plans.
As I understood--or imagined I understood--things at the start of 2009, the Obama administration was going to do five things:
Pass the biggest piece of expansionary fiscal policy it could do quickly--a pseudo-Republican one with a lot of (likely to be relatively ineffective) tax cuts in order to freeze delay and opposition.
Conduct stress tests on the banks--and then either trumpet the results if it looked like they were healthy or...
Published on September 08, 2010 09:20