George Orwell anticipates the Obama presidency
“The unspeakable depression of lighting the fires every morning with papers of a year ago, and getting glimpses of optimistic headlines as they go up in smoke.” —Orwell’s diary entry, 19 October 1940
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Americans Want to Live in Sweden
James Kwak. Americans Want to Live in Sweden The chart below is from a short paper by Michael Norton and Dan Ariely (author of Predictably Irrational) (hat tip Huffington Post). The top line is the...
View ArticleErskine Bowles, Morgan Stanley, and the Deficit Commission
Dean Baker. Erskine Bowles, Morgan Stanley, and the Deficit Commission The deficit report put out by the commission’s co-chairs, Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles, had one striking omission. It does not...
View ArticleThe Hijacked Commission
More on the “National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform”, this time from Paul Krugman. The Hijacked Commission … Actually, though, what the co-chairmen are proposing is a mixture of tax...
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Americans Want to Live in Sweden
James Kwak. Americans Want to Live in Sweden The chart below is from a short paper by Michael Norton and Dan Ariely (author of Predictably Irrational) (hat tip Huffington Post). The top line is the...
View ArticleTax cuts in perspective
The tax-cut extension for incomes over $250K would cost $60 billion a year. Is that a lot? Here’s David Leonhardt’s list of alternatives. As much deficit reduction as the elimination of earmarks,...
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Mark Blyth
I subscribe, via rss, to Christopher Lydon’s Radio Open Source. Truth is, I delete most of the interviews before listening, and I don’t get around to listening very often (as you’ll see in a moment)....
View ArticleHow the banks stole Medicare
This one’s only been sitting around for a couple of weeks. But read it in the context of the Mark Blyth interview I recommended. Nothing like a sensible framework to clarify one’s thoughts. Simon...
View ArticleGlad about SCOTUS & ACA? Thank Louis Brandeis.
John Fabian Witt at Balkinization The Secret History of the Chief Justice’s Obamacare Decision A Democratic Party president’s signature legislative victory is imperiled by an aging Supreme Court...
View ArticleNPR. Again.
Start with Dean Baker. Will the ACA Hurt Employers: Morning Edition Says It Depends on How They Feel Reporters at NPR have the time to look up the requirements of the Affordable Care Act and calculate...
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