Plutocrat Michael Bloomberg and the plutocrat-friendly Economist agree: Mitt Romney is just too big a risk to take.

My favorite line is from The Economist: “Mr. Romney has an economic plan that works only if you don’t believe most of what he says.”

[Cross-posted at The Reality-based Community]

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Mark Kleiman is a professor of public policy at the New York University Marron Institute.