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Thorns & roses.

Chief Executive (U.S.) • April-May, 2008 • CEO WATCH

ROSE ...

To NEW YORK MAGAZINE for its cover showing a full length portrait of Eliot Spitzer with an arrow caption pointing to the former governor's groin, indicating where his brains are located. Kind of says it all.

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THORN ...

By announcing a plan to give the Fed more control over our economy, Treasury Secretary HANK PAULSON is proposing we start "socializing" our capitalist system. If greater government oversight is needed, why choose the Federal Reserve, which is independent, separate and unaccountable from the three branches of government? Isn't this the same outfit whose loose monetary policy from January 2001 to January 2004 created the current housing bubble to begin with?


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