The Eurozone just can’t get it together, and that could toy with Obama’s growing lead in the polls.
Robert Kuttner
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The Party That Can’t Shoot Straight
What will Republican failures in 2012 mean for the future of both parties?
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Romney’s Negative Coattails
The Republican presidential candidate’s missteps may already be affecting downticket races.
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Romney’s Bigger Lie
Lots of Republican conservatives, Paul Ryan and Bill O’Reilly among them, have taken the position that even if Mitt Romney’s rhetoric was clumsy, his point was basically right. Some Americans pay taxes; others collect benefits. But his basic claim was total baloney. When you count income taxes, payroll taxes, excise taxes, and highly regressive state […]
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We Are the 47 Percent
Romney’s latest blunder follows a familiar pattern.
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We Are the 47 Percent
Romney’s latest blunder follows familiar pattern.
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Ben Bernanke, the Newest Avenger
Deficit hawks have tried to enlist the Fed chair in the austerity game, but he isn’t playing along.
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Europe: Old Austerity in New Bottles
The European Central Bank makes an offer that Spain and Italy can’t accept, futher increasing the likelihood of another depression.
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A Good Convention, a Bad Jobs Report
The economy will continue to recover slowly until there is significant public investment in the economy.
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Party Animals
After decades of internal divisions, the Democrats in Charlotte have their act together.
