Well, hopefully sans the creepy, fundagelical messiah complex... We've had quite enough such POTUSes for the time being, thankyouverymuch.

- Jake

If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.

I believe ET had come to this consensus before I started following it almost exactly a year ago.  Someone else acquainted me with some aspect of that discussion last summer.  There seems to be a real danger that our mutual fears will be realized.  The greatest countervailing factor is the simple fact that going along with the Wall Street consensus, or continuing to be guided by those subject to Krugman's "regulatory cognitive disfunction" is taking us over the falls in a barrel.  There is at least some hope that Obama will pull back before it is too late, but....  

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."