The attacks on 9/11 separated the real heroes from the fake heroes.
The Fake hero who comforted the grieving and raised a nation’s spirits:
The Fake hero who kept a city together:
The Real Hero who walked barefoot over broken windows:
It seems almost in bad taste to talk about dollars and cents after an act of mass murder. Nonetheless, we must ask about the economic aftershocks from Tuesday’s horror.These aftershocks need not be major. Ghastly as it may seem to say this, the terror attack — like the original day of infamy, which brought an end to the Great Depression — could even do some economic good….The wild card here is confidence. But the confidence that matters in this case has little to do with general peace of mind. If people rush out to buy bottled water and canned goods, that will actually boost the economy….So the direct economic impact of the attacks will probably not be that bad. And there will, potentially, be two favorable effects.First, the driving force behind the economic slowdown has been a plunge in business investment. Now, all of a sudden, we need some new office buildings….Second, the attack opens the door to some sensible recession-fighting measures. For the last few weeks there has been a heated debate among liberals over whether to advocate the classic Keynesian response to economic slowdown, a temporary burst of public spending…. Now it seems that we will indeed get a quick burst of public spending, however tragic the reasons.
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