Senator Obama chooses Jason Furman econ advisor
By: Divorced one like Bush From this story at Common Dreams comes the news that Senator Obama has chosen Jason Furman as an economic advisor. The story notes Mr. Furman’s fame for his defending of the...
View ArticleEconomics Makes for Strange Sick-Bed Fellows
Obama ready to cave in to insurance industry AKA ‘Her Way’; Obama Health Plan Could Go In Clinton’s DirectionTeddy Davis, John Santucci and Gregory Wallace ABC News 06.29.2008 Obama’s surrogate [Dr....
View ArticleThe Right-Wing Anti-Tax Machine Doesn’t Have to Buy the Cow…
EconomistMom recently defended, after a fashion, Alex Brill and Alan Viard’s notorious article claiming that the Obama tax plan would raise effective marginal tax rates on middle-class taxpayers....
View ArticleMcCain’s Health Plan: Tax Cut or Tax Hike, and To What End?
The Tax Foundation sent me an e-mail pointing me to Gerald Prante (who’s participated in our comments section in the past) taking Joe Klein to task for calling McCain’s proposed $5,000* refundable tax...
View ArticleDavid Leonhardt needs to retire, having abdicated responsibility
by Ken Houghton I don’t believe David Leonhardt is an idiot, but that’s not based on the evidence at hand: There are really only two [questions]: What steps are most likely to solve the immediate...
View ArticleWaiting for the DeLong-Fish Cage Match
While I’m trying to decide whether unmanaged funds are preferrable to mismanaged ones, and wondering whether any discussion of Mark Cuban (I like the picture better than CNN’s) belong here,* the NYT...
View ArticleOpen Thread II: Treasury Boogaloo
Geithner it is. I guess we can pretend he’s not a Clinton administration alum. And he has the right experience: Though not an economist, Mr. Geithner has a deep understanding of monetary and fiscal...
View ArticleWhy Conservatives Hate Social Security
By Bruce Webb PGL raises and answers this question over at Econospeak Health Care Debate: So This is Why Conservatives Hate Social Security. Or rather he allows Conservatives in the person of Michael...
View ArticleThe Best and the Brightest Meme — Eight Years Too Late?
Ken Houghton CR beat me to commenting on this Mankiw whine post, partially because I couldn’t think of anything reasonable to say about it. (CR could. That’s why he gets the big bucks.) But now that CR...
View ArticleNews Flash: Obama to Fulfill Campaign Promises!
Tom Bozzo is amazed at the reaction of leading figures in the left blogiverse to the W$J’s “news” that there will be tax cuts as part of the stimulus. See Aravosis, Digby, Krugman, Marshall. Can we...
View ArticleInfrastructure Stimulus Amounts
Tom Bozzo Around election time, the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee had identified $45 billion in ready-to-go infrastructure projects a stimulus package. Now TrafficWorld reports that...
View ArticleOberstar on ‘Use it or Lose It’ Stimulus Provisions
Tom Bozzo Via TrafficWorld: According to the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, 50 percent of funds provided to states will be required to be obligated within 90 days. Within 180 days...
View ArticleIs Larry Summers an Infrastructure Spending Skeptic?
by Tom Bozzo whose Facebook status currently reads, “Tom is feeling an unaccustomed sense of not-shame, at least pending some action on the economics, energy/environment, and transportation fronts.”...
View ArticleNuclear Option and Trust
by divorced one like BushUpdated comment at end So, now that the Democratic Party has the majority and the White House, why am I not hearing about the use of the Nuclear Option? I mean, it occurred to...
View ArticleA Spoonful of Sugar and TARP Part 2
Tom Bozzo Reader Roger Senserrich listened to the Obama reply that also caught CR’s eye and sends a relatively favorable (to the administration) interpretation: Let´s see if it makes sense. 1. Obama...
View ArticleThe Republican Leadership Declines ‘Pigou Club’ Membership
Tom Bozzo John “Don’t Say” Boehner makes (or should make) Greg Mankiw cry: Mr. Boehner likewise criticized Mr. Obama’s cap-and-trade emissions permits proposal, saying, “Cap-and-trade is code for...
View ArticleThe Charity Defense
by Tom Bozzo Much like the largely if not totally hypothetical family farm that might need to be sold off to cruel agribusiness to pay “death taxes,” I suspect that trotting out charities as the Real...
View ArticleAn Excess of Moderation?
Tom Bozzo In this round-up of “experts” (Cramer?!) on whether to “soak the Rich” at the WaPo (the title of which, given the actual Obama budget plans, reminds one that mainstream discourse has really...
View ArticleFor those who are interested in not staying in Hooverville II
Effect Cause The post For those who are interested in not staying in Hooverville II appeared first on Angry Bear.
View ArticleWhy is Obama asking for new power for the Treasury?
By Divorced one like Bush This past weekend I wrote about the OCC, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and 4 rulings that this office has made over the last two presidencies. 1. Preventing state...
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