When All Else Is Out of Bounds, Zap Labor
From Nixon’s wage controls to today’s interest rate hikes, the fight against inflation has targeted labor.
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Brad DeLong posted these very interesting excerpts from Ron Suskind's new book Confidence Men on his blog:
Maybe this is part of the "women problem" Maureen Dowd mentions in her recent column. But I thought that column was pretty fluffy, battle-of-the-sexes stuff, whereas this Suskind passage is great. Who would have thought that lightbulb would go off in Larry's head?
--Chris Sturr
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