Worthwhile Canadian Initiative’s Stephen Gordon suggests “that even if an economic model cannot predict market failure, it can still be quite valuable in helping with the remedy”. Lots of thoughts occur to me, but will join the discussion in comments.
by Linda Beale Truth in Budget Numberscrossposted with Ataxingmatter Seems like everybody these days is into misrepresenting, distorting, or at least stretching the facts to suit the spin they want to give. One issue that I raised in my snarky post on the 15th about the Budget commentary was the way most media has described […]
In the context of Dan’s post below, I just want to repeat what Bruce Bartlett said so accurately yesterday: [H]ere’s what I would be doing if I were organizing opposition to the Republican budgetary disinformation campaign. First of all, I would be holding hearings five days a week in the Senate Appropriations Committee and every […]
The Continuing Resolution (H.R. 1) was introduced Friday night. Information about the bill (copy of the legislation, bill summary, list of program cuts, and the subcommittee savings tables) is linked here: Appropriations Committee Introduces CR Containing Largest Spending Cuts in History February 11, 2011 CR Spending Cuts to Go Deep February 9, 2011 Rogers Announces […]
FY 2012 Federal Budget The following links are to federal government sources for the federal budget, OMB The Budget Summary Tables Terminations, Reductions and Savings TESTIMONY OF JACOB J. LEW DIRECTOR OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET BEFORE THE SENATE COMMITTEE ON THE BUDGET February 15, 2011
by Mike Kimel Canada too! Part twoCross posted at the Presimetrics blog. In response to my post commenting on Frances Woolley’s post, Frances Woolley left the following comment: On WCI, one of the commentators suggested that the Liberal/Conservative growth differential is partly due to differences in military spending. In Canada where we don’t have a […]
Prof. Barkley Rosser at Econospeak makes a few observations on the changes in the Middle East as they relate to oil producers. (Dan here…An oil shock in prices of crude oil would be problematic for the economic recovery we all hope for.)
Gordon Adams via Capital Gains and Games takes a look at the military side of the budget that is being sidestepped by most in the deficit spending whirlwind of claims and political negotiations happening on Capitol hill.
Re-posted from New Deal 2.0 with permission from the author Liberal Fallacies: Protecting Social Security from its ‘Friends’by L. Randall Wray Liberal attacks on Social Security are the unkindest cut of all. The Center for American Progress’s Matt Miller has argued that liberals can learn a valuable lesson from NY Governor Andrew Cuomo’s proposed budget. […]