Cavalcade of Dunces: One of those rare moments when judicious use of a firing squad could improve just about everything in the nation.

The woman in the middle is Carmen Reinhart. She is an economist and co author of: "This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly". Which is a book that everybody should read. In it she demonstrates the threat that astronomical public debt poses to prosperity.

The rest of them are jackwagons. Shoot 'em and dump the bodies in the ocean with concrete overshoes.

Posted by Fat Man at February 17, 2014 4:06 PM

OOps:m should have added a link for the book:

http://www.amazon.com/This-Time-Different-Centuries-Financial/dp/0691152640

Posted by Fat Man at February 17, 2014 4:09 PM

We are known by the companion we keep.

or as my mother use to say "Look at your friends to see what you will become."

Posted by grace at February 18, 2014 12:01 AM