Sloane Crosley Quotes
It's remarkable the logic we'll build around a misapprehension.
Crosley, Sloane. How Did You Get This Number. Riverhead Books, 2010.
In 2001, the nation had a huge budget surplus from the Clinton administration and there was much political debate over economic policy. President Bush wanted to have a very large tax cut. Greenspan had testified that given the very large surplus, the nation could afford a tax cut and not resume a deficit. However, the tax cut did not have the stimulus effect that the President had hoped, and the surplus was used up and exceeded. To make matters worse, September 11 began the War on Terror which required extensive additional government spending. The nation went from the largest surplus in American history to the largest deficit in American History in the next 4 years. Greenspan did something that is very rare in Washington. He publicly admitted error.
Sloane Crosley is an American writer living in New York City known for her humorous essays, including the collections I Was Told There'd Be Cake, How Did You Get This Number, and Look Alive Out There. She has also worked as a publicist at the Vintage Books division of Random House and as an adjunct professor in Columbia University's Master of Fine Arts program. She graduated from Connecticut College in 2000.
