<p>Thought provoking [interview</a> and discussion](<a href=“http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=851899886&play=1]interview”>http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=851899886&play=1) with Leonard Stern (NYU’s [Stern</a> Business Schoo](<a href=“http://w4.stern.nyu.edu/aboutstern/]Stern”>http://w4.stern.nyu.edu/aboutstern/)l is named after him) on tax policy and economics.</p>
<p>Interesting, but he is right, the politicians don’t know what they are doing on either side and will do and say anything to get elected. Unfortunately, a vast majority of the population don’t really understand economics or how these things affect them. The recent calculations of where the rebate money ended up, going to the oil companies in the form of gas prices. I don’t think that is what Bush intended when he said go out and buy stuff with it.</p>