Friday, August 14, 2009

Roberts: "By Spinning the Financial News, the Appearance of Recovery Is Created, and this Lures People Back into the Stock and Real Estate Markets"

Former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury and former editor of the Wall Street Journal Paul Craig Roberts has the quote of the day on the economy:

By spinning the financial news, the appearance of recovery is created, and this lures people back into the stock and real estate markets where they can lose the remainder of their wealth.


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