Bush critic blasts America’s growing inequality

NOBEL Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz does not like George Bush.

More than that, Mr Stiglitz does not like the fact that his country has become a pariah state, largely because of the US President and a cabal of advisers and special interest groups intent of promoting their economic and political views.

Since the early 1990s, Mr Stiglitz has fought to improve the living standards of his own country and those in the developing world. As chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers to Bill Clinton, he was central in advocating and implementing action to heal the US economy following the recession under the first President Bush