Mises Daily
Author:
Hunter Lewis
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This is an adaptation of chapter 10 from Hunter Lewis’s book Crony Capitalism in America: 2008–2012 , available in the Mises Store. During the presidential campaign of 2012, an online commentator observed that President Obama had not met with his Jobs Council for six months. How could this be, the commentator asked, when jobs were foremost on the