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January 26, 2012

The President's Nostalgianomics

Megan McArdle, The Atlantic

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Megan McArdle - Megan McArdle is a senior editor for The Atlantic who writes about business and economics. She has worked at three start-ups, a consulting firm, an investment bank, a disaster recovery firm at Ground Zero, and The Economist. More

Jan 25 2012, 3:34 PM ET Comment

That's the harsh version.  The slightly kinder version is that Obama, stymied by an economy that's still pretty weak, and an opposition that has no more interest in cooperating with him than Republicans did with Hoover, has turned to a laundry list of weak proposals that sound pleasing to interest groups, but wouldn't achieve much.  Of those, the best was allowing students who study here to stay here; the...
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