How to nationalize the banks (worked in Sweden, 1992)

Brad DeLong, serious economist.

Of course, it all depends on how you define "work," doesn't it?

Because if you define "work" as letting Hank Paulson's golfing buddies steal a trillion dollars -- via a "bust out," not a bailout -- then the Paulson plan is 100% posilutely, absitively guaranteed to work.

Here, again, the Ds just don't seem to be able to focus on or express, even if they realize, that the Rs are, literally, a criminal class. Which makes them, at this point, acessories, but that's a post for another day.