The man writes with a scalpel.
That cuts like a chainsaw.
And he has razorsharp wits.
He writes with the precision of a scalpel. Sometimes though I see or feel the impact of a more powerful tools or implements. Sowell is indeed a weapon of mass instruction.
:-) He is a favorite. Would that he had been in charge of the Fed for the past 18 or so years instead of Alan Greenspan.
Alan Greenspan, who hiked up interest rates three hundred basis points in 2000. Yeah, that's brilliant.
Then after 9/11, he realized that he had to start lowering interest rates to get the economy going. And he raised it by how much? You guessed it. Three hundred basis points.
And who would throw things at the television set if anyone dared to say anything about the Fed that he didn't like.