by Bruce Webb h/t to dKos poster Pronin2. http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/104xx/doc10464/hr3200.pdf New scoring released Friday night shows the ten-year net increase to the deficit from the House Tri-Committee bill down to $239 billion with an actual five year surplus of $44 billion. I guess we will have to see whether the AP and the Republicans cling to […]

by Noni Mausa Dear Journalists — You can Smarten Up Now Oh snap. Once again the papers demonstrate that when it comes todogs, the First Law of Journalism goes right out the window withoutregret or even apparently noticing it. That law? “First, Do Your Homework.” What annoyed me today was an editorial in the NYT, […]

by divorced one like Bush Time for an update on real world business. I posted back in 12/08 about the costs of a flower shop being in a wire service. The costs should matter, as it is what happens when one buys on line from a non-real florist. It is also a lesson as to […]

by cactus The other day I had a post about a book I’m co-authoring; the book is slated to come out in the spring. As I noted then, the book looks at at how a large number of variables – everything from abortion rates to economic growth, evolved over the length of each presidential administration […]

rdan WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), chairman of the U.S. Senate Banking Subcommittee on Economic Policy, will conduct a hearing tomorrow on how best to establish a national manufacturing policy. Brown is a leading advocate in Congress for a manufacturing policy to strengthen the industry and ensure its future global competitiveness. Brown’s […]

by cactus Progress Report, and a Plea For Help Regular readers may recall that together with a co-author, I’ve been writing a book. The topic should be familiar to the coterie of merry madmen/madwoman who lurk at the blog as writers or readers or both: we look at how a large number of variables – […]

Robert Waldmann on Karl Marx, Arthur Laffer and Simon Peter. Which one here is not like the others, because he was a lunatic extremist egalitarian not an ambitious sophist ? Marx famously declared “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.” This is quite probably the grossest distortion of a quote […]

Robert Waldmann Kevin Drum writes Conor Friedersdorf has three reasons he doesn’t think he’ll be able to support any of the progressive healthcare reforms currently on tap. Argument #3: I keep seeing the argument that America is the leading health care innovator, and that if our system looks more like what Europe has, there won’t […]