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The CBO Report Flimflam
All of the Sunday morning shows discussed the (totally nonexistent) CBO report and, naturally...
The Recovery Bill
I don't have time right now to read this, but just skimming through it I see things like a...
Oh Look. The Republicans Are Wrong Again.
You may have seen a Republican shmendrick on Hardball yesterday screaming about a CBO report...
The Insane Notion of Steady Good News
Posted by JumpyPants A lot of people ignore the news because they just hate being bummed out. But...
More Like It
The recovery package is growing: Congressional Democrats are putting the final touches on an...
Scary, Indeed
Krugman quotes a stimulus analogy by Mark Thoma: I think the stimulus package is like driving up an...
Changing the Stimulus
Jan. 12 (Bloomberg) -- President-elect Barack Obama is making “significant” changes to his economic...
They Don't Need No Stinking Experts
Yglesias and Brad DeLong observe that John Boehner and the Republicans chose their position on...
Stimulus Ceiling Unlimited
Coincidentally, I've been thinking about this exact same thing: Nate Silver deduces that the...
And People Take Them Seriously?
Put aside the record deficits and debt of the Bush Republican decade. Put aside stories about...
Anticipating the Breach of the Levees
Super stupid: Cheney defended the administration's performance on an economy that is growing weaker...
Stop Worrying And Learn to Love The Deficit
Despite the urgent "breaking news" tone I'm hearing on MSNBC, a large $1.2 trillion federal budget...
Tax Cuts
The Obama team announced the tax cut portion of their stimulus proposal and it turns out that 40...
The Axis of Capitulation
The president-elect is meeting with Speaker Pelosi on Monday to outline a strategy for the stimulus...
Eating Out
Nate Silver spotted a new Gallup poll that shows a significant decline in eating out among middle...
Our Stupid Governors
Krugman's (again) column this week discusses the 50 "Hoovers" who are determined to cut spending...
Bipartisanship
Krugman has a good point here about how bipartisanship won't fix the economy. Despite the campaign...
Super Stupid
Digby observed: The Wall Street guys on the Fox News money shows are saying that global warming is...
Putting the 'Poor' In Standard And Poor's
This is tragic: The S&P is down more than 40 per cent so far this year, its worst fall since...