Posts Tagged as ‘Conn Carrol’

December 16, 2008

More ‘Lunatics’

The Washington Post’s Eugene Robinson considers these people lunatics for supporting bankruptcy for the Big Three automakers.
Robinson’s  List O’ Loons, H/T Conn Carrol:
John Bates Clark Medal winner and Columbia University economics professor Joseph Stiglitz
Stanford Law School professor Lawrence Lessig
John Bates Clark Medal winner and Nobel laureate Gary Becker
I’m referring to his latest column, where [...]

December 16, 2008

Washington Post: More Than Half of Us Are Crazy

Conn Carrol rightly points out:

Washington Post assistant managing editor Eugene Robinson believes that anyone who opposes a federal government bailout of General Motors and Chrysler is a ‘lunatic’. So how does The Washington Post deal with the fact that their latest survey shows 55% of the American people oppose that very bailout? Well you bury [...]