Yet Another Reason to Hate Hitler

Larry Summers on the Charlie Rose show (≈21:50):

Never forget, never forget, and I think it’s very important for Democrats especially to remember this, that if Hitler had not come along, Franklin Roosevelt would have left office in 1941 with an unemployment rate in excess of 15 percent and an economic recovery strategy that had basically failed.

So, yeah...Hitler was a douche.

Another hat tip to Greg Mankiw.

Hoover Redux

I think Eliot Spitzer should stick to whoremongering, or at least stay away from history and economics. Because he doesn't know what he's talking about.

Amity Shlaes

Author of The Forgotten Man (have I mentioned this?) on the Daily Show: