What's WITH Our Economy, Anyway?

"So how did we end up in this state? How did America become a nation that could not rise to the biggest economic challenge in three generations, a nation in which scorched-earth politics and politicized economics created policy paralysis?"

Paul Krugman, well known liberal economist asks us, as citizens, to examine these and other questions. Follow me just below the squiggledoodlethingey fold, and let's see what we can handle.