Oh, no. Here we go again. We’ll have to endure yet another round of Clinton nostalgia:
In the book, titled “Back to Work,” Mr. Clinton will make the case for why government matters, explaining his ideas on energy, job creation and financial responsibility, his publisher said Thursday.
You mean we’re going to get a lesson about the Clinton "good years":
The Clinton “good years” were built on two massive financial and technology speculative bubbles—not broad, lasting, wage-driven prosperity and power for people.
The Clinton “good years” were right smack in the middle of a 30-year decline in wages compared to productivity.
The Clinton “good years” were led by a president, and supported by a Secretary of Labor (Robert Reich), who were enthusiastic supporters of NAFTA and its clones—the trade strategy that has, at its core, the lowering of wages.
The Clinton “good years” were a high-water mark for mindless deregulation that put the entire country’s democracy and economic security at risk by increasing the power of two of the most influential industries in the country and the world—the media industry (thanks to the 1996 Telecommunications Act) and the financial world (thanks, among other things, to the repeal of Glass Steagall–see the gleeful pic below–in favor of the Orwellian-sounding Financial Services Modernization Act—we know how that worked out).
And the press will be too stupid to point out these facts. And we want Clinton’s advice because why?
My head hurts.

