Book publishing schedules are cruel. Robert J. Samuelson, a Newsweek columnist and self-confessed “slow writer,” most likely started on this book in 2005 or so when the economy was booming. He would have turned in the final manuscript about a year and a half ago as the yawning cracks in Wall Street’s underpinnings were first becoming clearly visible. Samuelson’s primary (...)
May 22, 2009
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The Great Inflation and Its AftermathThe Past and Future of American AffluenceRobert J. SamuelsonRandom House, $26, 311pp.
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