Not a surprise to anyone here, unless we're surprised he's admitting it and at least one news outlet is reporting on it...

From The Hill has published an editorial by Mark Weisbrot

Weisbrot is co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, and the president of Just Foreign Policy. He is also the author of the new book "Failed: What the 'Experts' Got Wrong About the Global Economy" (Oxford University Press, 2015).