…cost overruns and redundant weapons system,” the source told TPM. “Cote made excuses for it all.” According to the source, Cote and other members, including the commission’s co-chair Alan Simpson,…

Hat tip Calculated Risk for the Alan Blinder and Mark Zandi paper How the Great Recession Was Brought to an End….

…proposals on the table to actually do so, even Alan Simpson, currently taking the hardest public line would exempt workers 60 and older from any near term benefit cuts, meaning…

…listed by Bush’s CSSS (Commission to Strengthen Social Security) in 2001, and followed by the various proposals fronted by Alan Simpson, the Ryan Roadmap, and even Michelle Bachmann. Each would…

…strictest plan being floated right now is that of co-Chairman Alan Simpson. He would reduce the grace period so that it only cover people 60 and older. But this means…

Hat tip to Yves Smith at Naked Capitalism for Rep. Alan Grayson’s “the war is making you poor act”….

…up in the sanctimonious rhetoric of deficit reduction. (Back in his salad days, former Senator Alan Simpson was a regular schemer to cut Social Security.) The Obama spending freeze is…

…the Entitlements Commission. Because its leadership has made it clear that taxes and military spending will NOT be on the table, this will all be about what Co-chairman Alan Simpson…

…provision in his bill, but removed it after a Democratic committee member, Rep. Alan Grayson of Florida, asked that it be taken out. […] But weeks later, when Senate Banking…

…(examples, David Card, Larry Katz, John Bound, John Van Reenen, Claudia Goldin, Bruce Meyer, Alan Krueger, Christina Romer, Joshua Angrist and Richard Freeman). However, they all use quite little mathematics…