“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.” Marcus Tullius Cicero
29 December 2011
Five Charts Useful for Framing the Economic Debate in 2012
These charts are from a collection of favorite charts put together by Jared Bernstein from material put out by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.