Mark C. Taylor on the economic crisis: Now we can see that the economy is a confidence game. With markets spinning out of control and liquidity frozen, analysts and commentators repeat again and again that the problem is that investors have lost confidence. What they don’t adequately stress is that this loss of confidence is fully justified.
Ashley Gilbertson, veteran NYT photographer and author of Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: A Photographer’s Chronicle of the Iraq War, was featured last Thursday along with first-time