The distance between America's fiscal problem and the capacity of its politicians to confront it intelligently just seems to get wider. So I ague in a new column for the Financial Times.
As the country's companies and workers wrestle with deep and urgent economic problems, its leaders perform their comic opera of avoiding a shutdown - a crisis of their own devising, a figment of their pathological machinations.
Good for Joe Manchin, though.
Clive Crook is a senior editor of The Atlantic and a columnist for Bloomberg View. He was the Washington columnist for the Financial Times, and before that worked at The Economist for more than 20 years, including 11 years as deputy editor. Crook writes about the intersection of politics and economics. More
Crook writes about the intersection of politics and economics.
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