Packing for Montana

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As reported in today’s Washington Post, in an article entitled “In Debate Over Nation’s Growing Debt, a Surplus of Worry.”

Leonard Burman, [a Syracuse University ] economist, says he has developed a computer model that shows that a “catastrophic budget failure” is a possibility.

“I try not to get too depressed, because if I really thought it was going to play out the way this model works, I would just move to a cabin in Montana and stockpile gold and guns,” he says.

Finally, an economist in touch with reality…

5 COMMENTS

  1. Gee, too bad he caint sublet the unibomber’s cabin because with statements like these, he’s going to be treated like a unibomber.

    I do like the compassion of the Washington Post though, displaying a giant advertisement for Johnny Walker next to this litany of sorrow. One can apparently now custom inscribe a bottle of Hooch for your most treasured friends. “Liquidity” takes on new meaning.

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