Title: Dissapointed
Review: Readers expecting a lively,left of center interpretation of a prosperity decade in the manner of J.K. Galbraith's The Great Crash had better look elsewhere. Economist Joseph Stiglitz is a Clinton era "New Democrat", and the Roaring Nineties is appalling evidence of it. The book is more a history of Clinton's perfidious economic policies which Stiglitz admits were wrong, Republican even, policies which created greater eonomic inequality here and abroad and which allowed the predatory CEOs of major companies to plunder unsuspecting investors, individual and institutional. Stiglitz says that the policies were shaped by fear of Robert Rubin at the Treasury Department, Alan Greenspans's Federal Reserve, conservatives in Congress, and, revealingly, heavyweight campaign contributors. The book is a weasel's mea culpa. It's too little and too late. I'm embarrassed that I spent $29.95 on it.
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