From farce to fraud

The thing you most want in a politician is the one thing he can't be, says Bill Bonner.

Nothing special in yesterday's financial news. So let's turn from farce to fraud, that is, to politics.

President Obama has to defend his policies, pretending that they have brought a real recovery. One of the pillars of his case, say the papers, is that unemployment has gone down.

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