The Mark of W.
June 1, 2010
Arjun Jayadev at New Deal 2.0 finds the mark of George W. Bush’s presidency etched into the picture of our national finances over the past decade. Literally. And I don’t mean Joe-Biden literally. But literally literally. That is, the literal letter “W” literally appears on the graph of total revenues over the last 10+ years (supplemented by projections of presumptive recovery).
This observation prompts Mike Konczal, writing at Ezra Klein’s place, to declare the past decade the “W years.” And so they were.
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