James Pethokoukis, Capital Commerce writes:
I spoke with former GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney at his hotel room the morning of his speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference here in Washington. (He ended up winning the CPAC presidential straw poll.) Instead of the usual political horse race questions, I wanted to probe his views of our current economic environment and whether he thought Reagan-style free-market economics was dead. A couple of interesting notes: Romney sees the need for government money to help the banks, and he isn't a knee-jerk "suspend mark to market accounting" guy. But he also thinks the Obama administration doesn't quite get the fact that America exists in a global economy where it needs to a) compete with other nations, and b) take into account what investors think of our economic policies.
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