Not only is the recession doing things like cause hiring freezes and multibillion dollar bailouts, it’s also infantilizing Americans! While unemployment reached 6.5% in October, the video game industry grew 18%. Indeed as poor Neel Kashkari is getting a new wrinkle for each of the twenty banks being given capital injections, there has been a $19...

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Treasury Assistant Neel Kashkari is the chosen one— chosen for the loaded job of overseeing the bailout plan. There’s been quite a bit of finger pointing over the past couple of weeks: at President George W. Bush, at greedy corporations, at slick Wall Streeters, at U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson, at legislators who allowed for deregula...

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