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In the face of the booms and busts of the capitalist economy, the confidence game of shrewd deception and cool risk taking was often what was required--and secretly admired. This unfamiliarity and heightened expectation, matched with the trappings of competence, gave potency to what has turned out to be the Bush administration's signature political tactic, the confidence game. If it sounds a bit like a confidence game, that may be because it's public confidence that gives money value in the first place. |
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