Since the mid-September economic crash, NYT’s Joe Nocera has provided one invaluable explanation after another of what’s going on in the arcane situation. Today, he describes how the current climate both differs from and duplicates what Franklin D. Roosevelt faced as he entered the White House. Will Barack Obama choose different or similar moves? Nocera think we can expect mostly similarities, and once again I commend his article to you.
Here also is the membership list of the President-elect’s Transition Economic Advisory Board — a diversity of perspectives and faces that surely would have stunned FDR.
