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Ezra Klein

Ezra Klein is a staff reporter at The Washington Post. You can read his blogging here. His work has appeared in the LA Times, The Guardian, The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, Slate, and The Columbia Journalism Review. He's been a commentator on MSNBC, CNN, NPR, and more.

Recent Articles

IS THIS ALL ABOUT CBO?

Ezra KleinMay 11, 2009

There's an emergent argument that the real import of today's letter is that it serves as a club against the Congressional Budget Office. As Igor Volsky writes:

DOCUMENT DUMP: THE BIG HEALTH CARE LETTER.

Ezra KleinMay 11, 2009

All this fuss over one little letter. I've got the full document for download here. And the early reports are true. It's signed by the presidents of Pharma, Advamed (device manufacturers), the American Medical Association (doctors), the American Hospital Association, America's Health Insurance Plans, and SEIU's Health Care project.

EXTREMELY TRUE STOCK MARKET COMMENTARY.

Ezra KleinMay 11, 2009

Ryan Avent -- demonstrating once again that some enterprising publication should hire him immediately -- offers the smartest commentary you'll read on the stock market today:

Today’s conventional wisdom seems to be that the recent market rally has hit an apex. My assessment is that it has either hit an apex or hasn’t, in which case it will go up or down.

This is 100 percent true. By contrast, analyses of today's stock market drop that do not say this are not 100 percent true.

IT'S BAD TO NOT BE THE KING.

Ezra KleinMay 11, 2009

I've been thinking a lot about James Surowiecki's argument that the administration's critics have developed "a fetishization of boldness."

UNADULTERATED GOOD NEWS ON HEALTH REFORM.

Ezra KleinMay 11, 2009

To counterbalance the crankiness of the previous post, Peter Orszag's announcement that the administration is not only continuing to support is $635 billion health care fund, but actually adding pieces to it, is important news. The key issue in health care reform is, quite simply, financing. Right now, the policy exists. The money doesn't. In fact, when the Senate passed its version of the budget, the specific financing provisions in the administration's health care reserve fund were deleted entirely.

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