Can We Avoid an Economic Aftershock?
Aftershock: The Next Economy and America’s Future
by Robert Reich
–Reviewed by Jake de Grazia
Meet Margaret Jones, your new President. She’s putting a freeze on immigration. She’s increasing tariffs on all imports. She’s withdrawing from the United Nations, defaulting on our debt to China, and abolishing the Federal Reserve. She’s outlawing investment banking, taxing capital gains at a rate of 80 percent, and capping personal income at $500,000 per year. She’s the new populist, the destroyer of both the Democratic and Republican parties, the voice of an overworked, underpaid, absolutely unsatisfied …
