Via Ali Esbati, a long article by Nobel Prize in economics* winner Joseph Stiglitz. Here's the lede:

Describing how ideology, special-interest pressure, populist politics, and sheer incompetence have left the U.S. economy on life support, the author puts forth a clear, commonsense plan to reverse the Bush-era follies and regain America’s economic sanity.

* actually, the Swedish Riksbank Prize in memory of your mother.