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Released: March 13, 2009

The economic blame game

Source: Joel Stein, LA Times (Free Registration)

I leave the petty details of fixing this economic crisis to others. I shall focus on a far more important task: assigning blame. I particularly want someone to blame because last Friday, Best Life magazine offered me $7,500 to write a cover story on actor John Krasinski, which I accepted because I'm a huge fan of both Krasinski and $7,500. But on Wednesday, Best Life folded, and now I'll never get to meet that $7,500. My first target was former Fed chief Alan Greenspan, partly because he's made himself vulnerable by apologizing and mostly because he sort of looks like Mr. Burns on "The Simpsons." But then I thought back to my interviews on a bench in Central Park on Sept. 10, 2001, of liberal economist Paul Krugman and a conservative economist for a CNN segment called Global Village Idiot that never aired for reasons, obviously, that had to do with Wolf Blitzer being threatened by more handsome competition.

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