Dear Mr. Buffett:
At last a leader of national stature has called attention to the fact that "Pearl Harbor has been attacked again!!!" Meaning this time, of course, it's the economy that has been attacked.
That reference to December 7, which you make in your March 10 CNBC interview, is not mere self-dramatizing hyperbole. Your career, after all, has been marked by an enormous gap between your financial acumen and any tendency to self-dramatization.
No, your use of that metaphor constitutes a quite appropriate attempt to solve the problem of our national lack of focus on a