Remember Paul O’Neill, president George W’s first treasury secretary? He’s been quiet for the last few months, after the furore died down about his collaboration with journalist and author Ron Suskind for the book The Price of Loyalty.
Well, he’s back and again is pulling no punches. Last month he was guest speaker at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. Asked about vice president Dick Cheney’s deficit comment [that Reaganomics proved they don’t matter], O’Neill, true to form, did not hold back: “In an economic sense, that’s loony.
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