One of the authors Bauman, is a Left Wing economic comic:
http://www.standupeconomist.com/
The NYT is running out of lies and resources...dipping into the hipster comedians?
LOL
The other author, Ms. Hsu, is apparently of Chinese extraction. Not that I wish to appear bigoted against Chinese, but I wonder why Ms. Hsu is not writing glowingly of a carbon tax being imposed in Peking...