Will the GOP’s budget plan spark a double-dip recession?
Economic Policy
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Strongest Progressive in the Room
Elizabeth Warren: Consumer bureau chief or U.S. senator?
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Q&A: Why the Deficit Doesn’t Matter
TAP talks with James Galbraith about the deficit and what we really should be looking for in the president’s budget.
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Debating the Obama Budget
Adam Serwer, Monica Potts, and Jamelle Bouie discuss the Obama administration’s budget proposal, and the rash on anti-choice bills Republicans have introduced.
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State of the Debate: Peddling Krugman
Paul Krugman criticizes supporters of government activism as nothing but policy peddlers and economic illiterates, but describes himself as a liberal. What is MIT’s prodigy really up to?
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What Japan Teaches Us Now
Japan’s economic crisis is a case study in the long-term costs of protecting inefficient industries. Yet it also shows how the pressures for protectionism become irresistible without a strong safety net and policies to aid displaced workers.
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Below the Beltway: Whistling Past the Trade Deficit
S oon after he was nominated to be Secretary of Commerce, Bill Daley called in several prominent trade experts to brief him. What, he asked them, was the most important thing he should know? Claude Barfield from the American Enterprise Institute was quick to reply, “You should understand that the trade deficit doesn’t matter.” Barfield’s […]
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Of Our Time: After Solidarity
T he American Republic has long had a set of public and non-profit institutions that enrich our democracy by demonstrating that society is more than a mere market. The most expansive and explicit of these began in the New Deal, such as Social Security and later Medicare. However, public and communal institutions have a venerable […]
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Of Our Time: The Bankers’ Regime
Democracy has turned upside down, of late. At this writing, the nation is mesmerized by Oval Sex and related scandal. Elected representatives in Washington are talking about little else. The presidency is under siege. Cable television and talk radio savor every titillating detail. Meanwhile, the larger events now rocking the world are being addressed by […]
