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After sleeping in the lap of Amtrak luxury on Thursday (these guys tucked me in) and missing all the city fun, things are slowly getting back to normal. How about a little Bush bodyslam courtesy of a recent Economic Policy Institute press conference to get the blood pumping again? As quoted by the Times…

Mr. Akerlof, a 2001 Nobel laureate in economics, bluntly declared on Tuesday that “the Bush fiscal policy is the worst policy in the last 200 years.” Speaking at a press conference arranged by the Economic Policy Institute, Mr. Akerlof, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley, said, “Within 10 years, we’re going to pay a serious price for such irresponsibility.”

Also participating in the institute’s press conference was Robert Solow, an economist and professor emeritus at M.I.T. who is also a Nobel laureate. He assailed the Bush tax cuts as “redistributive in intent and redistributive in effect.” “There has been a dissipation of the huge budget surplus,” he said, “and all we have to show for that is the city of Baghdad.” (full transcript pdf)

Now that’s gotta sting even the elite force aviator.

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