Showing posts with label economics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label economics. Show all posts

Thursday, March 5, 2009

The squeaky wheel

We are trying not to get too fixated on the fairness aspects of the bailout. However, this approach seems to resemble a plan in which you fix a classroom that’s distracted by one disruptive pupil by sending said troublemaker to a private school in Lucerne equipped with an on-campus ski lift while the rest of the kids stay at Millard Fillmore Elementary, sharing textbooks.

-Gail Collins in the New York Times.