The new Bloomberg BusinessWeek cover story is on Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles, the dynamic bipartisan duo that's been going around the country and on every TV network preaching the gospel of a centrist approach to deficit reduction. The thrust of the article is: Simpson and Bowles are correct in warning of a big problem to come if we don't get a handle on our deficits, but thanks to political reality, nobody is listening to their dire warnings. The article, written by Joshua Green, doesn't really question whether Simpson and Bowles have correctly assessed the deficit problem, or whether ... Read More