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NEW YORK TIMES: MYSTERY FOR THE WHITE HOUSE: Where did the jobs go? Gee, where would you go to fi?

By Glenn Reynolds

NEW YORK TIMES: MYSTERY FOR THE WHITE HOUSE: Where did the jobs go? Gee, where would you go to find an answer to that puzzling question? . . . .

UPDATE: Reader Dave Stine writes:

I think, actually, that the “Gee, where would you look for an answer to that question?” would do better to point at Professor Hanson’s piece you referenced @10:37am.

The economic policy in this country is now being driven by people who don’t know their ass from a hot rock about actually running a business. Obama’s administration is mostly composed of academics – something upon which you have touched in the past.

Since it is business and not academia that hires the millions of people necessary to reverse our job losses, policy wonks without real world experience would be puzzled and mystified why their policies are causing the situation we see now.

Well, good point.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on July 19, 2010 (boomark / email).