Meantime, Politics as Usual: Simon Johnson on the Daley Appointment

It's too early to declare a croak of the day, but I think this might be a pretty good candidate.

If the country’s most distinguished nuclear scientists told you, clearly and very publicly, that they now realize a leading reactor design is very dangerous, would you and your politicians stop to listen?  Yet our political leadership brush aside concerns about the way big banks operate.  Why?

Read the whole damn thing.