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“Failures of Leadership in a Populist Age.” In an essay that rings even more true after the events of Wednesday, Yuval Levin warns would-be populist leaders to shun the temptations of fantasy and root their words and actions in reality:
It is the task of leaders in populist eras … to offer ways to use political power effectively to address [populist] complaints that are rooted in reality. And they need to push to the side or disperse the power of those complaints that are rooted in fantasy, so that they don’t render populist movements pointless, ridiculous, or dangerous.
Janet Yellen and husband Geroge Akerlof
Joe Biden s nominee for Treasury Secretary, Janet Yellen, is a typical over the top Keynesian in favor of mad money printing by the Federal Reserve but a bigger problem might be the influence of her husband, George Akerlof, on her thinking.
You can t get much more authoritarian in your thinking than Akerlof does.
John Tamny writes:
In Phishing for Phools, a 2015 book that George Akerlof co-authored with Robert Shiller, the authors wrote without even a hint of irony that people “do not do what is really good for them, they do not choose what they really want.” Please think about the previous bit of absurdity from the two economists. Maybe think a while.
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you ve got to look twice. that was not mr. rogers. tom hanks who has transformed himself for the movie into mr. rogers. a journalist writing a profile on the beloved tv host. rave reviews. i think he will break out in this. the movie hits theaters in november. the question is, can america still yes, we love tom. this was the man when i was little i was going to marry. i was at the smithsonian the day fred rogers was there. that s what it was knit by his mother or wife.
who did these kinds of things, they would have elected somebody else but they wanted to break things and improve the economy. that was the focus of the election an that s why i m p perfectly comfortable saying there s a whole of behaviors that donald trump engages in some of them my counter tops are the best. taken with a grain of salt. we are talking about the president of the united states. i get that. i m wondering if meramerican through different news cycles through these tweets will start thinking, ehh, i m not listening. but we heard this throughout the campaign, that were demonstrably wrong, america