DIGG THIS The Professor scanned the classroom. We didn't know his academic credentials or even his name, but he taught the adult-education class in Detroit, so we all called him The Professor. "And The Great Economic Meltdown beginning in 2008? Who can describe its causes?" he asked, peering pleasantly through thick, round spectacles. Under different circumstances he might have even been liked. "Freedom of the press," said an ambitious girl. "Uncontrolled, sensationalist media panicked the bourgeois investors." The Professor nodded approvingly, and off in a corner his note-taker made a positive mark next to the student's name. "Yes, Internet," he … Continue reading Losing Interest in Economic Recovery