Avagy lehet-e baj, ha a kormányzat túl ambiciózus a válságkezelésben. A mostanában sokat kritizált Richard Posnert ezért a posztért pont azok fogják újra szeretni, akik mostanában támadják.
"Obama is extremely able and self-confident and has appointed on the whole very able people to his staff and to the departments; some of them are brilliant. But the capacity of brilliant people, appointed to high positions in the federal government from outside, to screw up is legendary. The danger is amplified when the government tries to do too much. The economist Frank Knight used to quip that although production beyond capacity is a contradiction in terms, it is observed every day in academia--to which we can add, in the U.S. government as well. There is danger that the government is trying to do too much and that the economic consequences will be negative and serious."
