Obama levando os EUA pro buraco

Economista Robert Barro no Wall Street Journal de hoje:

The U.S. Treasury could have responded in two ways. First, it could have taken the downgrade as useful information and then focused on how to perform better to earn back a AAA rating. Instead, it chose to attack the rating agency as incompetent and not credible. In this respect, U.S. officials were almost as bad as Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who responded to warnings from S&P and Moody's about Italian government debt by launching police raids on the offices of the rating agencies in Milan last week. The U.S. Treasury's response also reminds me of Lehman Brothers blaming its financial problems in the summer of 2008 on evil financial analysts and short-sellers.



É... O atual cenário é digno de paráfrase da famosa frase proferida por Ronald Reagan quando em campanha pela presidência contra Jimmy Carter:

Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when BARACK OBAMA loses his.