This sober look at Obama's economic advisers stresses policy choices over personal drama.
Scheiber stresses policy over personal drama in this sober account of President Obama's economic team, the 2009 stimulus plan and what he sees as the administration's repeated failures to grapple forcefully with the economy and unemployment.
It is depressing in the extreme that the president, when it came time for him to expend political capital on the issue of race and the police, did so on behalf of his "friend" rather than stressing policy reforms that might keep the poorly educated, infrequently employed, troubled but still human young black men in America out of prison.
Mr. Loury writes: "It is depressing in the extreme that the president, when it came time for him to expend political capital on the issue of race and the police, did so on behalf of his 'friend' rather than stressing policy reforms that might keep the poorly educated, infrequently employed, troubled but still human young black men in America out of prison".
"This is the defining issue of our time," Mr. Obama said in a speech in Florida this week, stressing policy initiatives that would make the rules of the game more "fair" to those being left behind in what he described as a rich-get-richer economy.
(I should stress policy, since individuals under stress shall always act in divergent ways, whether wonderful or loathsome or something in between).
The first, advocated by the Colonial Office, stressed a policy of direct control to protect British interests in the Persian Gulf and India.
Both military leaders stressed that policy should focus on stopping the violence and helping Syria transition to a democracy.
The Foreign Secretary, Mr. George Brown, an emotional man to whom cool neutrality about anything probably does not come easily, punctiliously stressed this policy to the packed House of Commons after the fighting had started.
Mr. Draghi has in recent weeks stressed that policy makers were ready to take action if needed, but he and other members of the governing council have few obvious options left to stimulate the slumping euro zone economy.
