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158-277 seem to be where this book really picks up it's stride and is the most riveting. Great stuff

Finally, we get to the 2016 election

It's crazy how relivent this book is. It has aged..... Fantastically. 14 years later, and It's still wildly relivent.

Despite nearly 2 decades of folly, it's amazing how little has changed in American politics.

Suddenly, I see where the rage of "listen Liberal" comes from.

On the looming debt crisis "the message is clear: America doesn't have a general spending problem that requires severe cuts across the board. we, have, instead, a massive problem of exploding healthcare costs", page 405

Aka blinder is telling Rand Paul to shut up.

I couldn't agree more with Blinder. It's a shame he drops the ball in his book by never bringing up single payer as a means of dealing with the issue

"failure to solve the foreclosure problem is one of the reasons we have had such a weak housing sector and weak recovery for so long - and it didn't have to be that way. It is hard to resist the conclusion that we just didn't try hard enough". Page 342

Blinder gives an A to the regulators dealing with interest rate spreads (ie restabilizing Financial Markets). This I agree with.

He gives a B to Dodd Frank. I'm closer to a C+/B- range (best we could do with republican obstruction).

He's tackling the issue of dealing with mortgage foreclosure, and gives it a D-. This I heavily agree with.

Reminds me of house of debt

Wow.... The book paints a BLEAK portrait of the urban poor in America. My mind is trying to figure out some way to turn it around.... And I've got a few ideas...... But in today's political environment, it would take a miracle to make them happen.

This kind of desperation has not even been solved by social democracys light years ahead of the United States :(

Everything up to about 209 is easily the best description of the crash I've ever seen. After that it gets political. It's my kind of political slant, and we'll reasoned, but I could see it rubbing a more conservative reader the wrong way

This book accomplishs something very rare in economics: it has the tendency to be funny on occasion!

Not quite Charles Wheelan funny, but close enough.

Wow, this book actually makes a pretty good argument for the commons. To be expected, it's a central part of her new economic model, but I'm kinda onboard. Not so much with her enthusiasm for crypto currency, but that's a minor disagreement