I don't have anything much to say about the impending sequestration, but if that's what you're into, I'll offer some links.
We can always start with what a reference work says: Auburn University .
But it might be more amusing to listen to what Maria Bartiromo, the Money Honey, thinks about it all: Click here.
As a reminder, the subjects of discussion are across-the-board budget cuts designed to serve as a Monster (as a recent piece in Slate explained it) to scare both parties into coming to an agreement to do something important but less monstrous.
The New York Times has focused on delays in air travel. That reminds me of the good old days. The early 1980s, when a new and jellybean consuming president faced a job action from traffiuc controllers. PATCO is long gone, but air traffic controllers may be happy to see themselves in the news in a sympathetic light.
Historic resonances aside, some observers just don't see the sequestration 'monster' as so scary, and the Economic Policy Journal is of that company.
Here are some reports written in a rather dry style, from the folks at the OMB.
And from the western side of the continent ... all the crisis talk is seen by the SFGate as simply proof of Washington's tendency to stay in "panic mode."
Finally: why did I start with the above photo? To make the point that a sequestration is not the same as seeing a crustacean!
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