Rubber stamping all that development was easy, but now Bloomberg's Dept. of Buildings is at a loss over how to test all the untested concrete without turning the buildings into Swiss cheese (before they fall apart all by themselves). See New York Faces Huge Backlog in Concrete Retests.
"Threatened white elites try to mask their own anxieties by patronizingly adopting working-class whites as their pet political surrogates — Joe the Plumber, New Haven firemen, a Cambridge police officer. Call it Village People populism." See Frank Rich's Small Beer, Big Hangover.
And Paul Krugman thinks high-speed trading is a crock, too. See Rewarding Bad Actors.
