Shutting the Eyes on the Back our Heads

Joseph Stiglitz:

“I’ve been a bit astonished that all the discussion around the private-sector stimulus has centered on infrastructure,” he said. “Bailouts, too, are aimed at correcting mistakes of the past, so they are backward-looking. We would be much better off spending our money forward-looking. If we spend $700 billion on new technology and innovation, we’d have a stronger, new, real economy. Up to now, the discussion has focused on the sectors that have been mismanaged rather than the sectors that are creating our future.”