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‘The One-Sided Deficit Debate’

…debate: What’s more, the “consensus” of the self-styled “centrists” is what now makes the Bush tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 seem positively reasonable. With Simpson-Bowles and Domenici-Rivlin both calling…

Several thoughts about Paul Krugman’s NYT column today – UPDATED regarding the Fourth Amendment issue, and (separately) the suddenly real possibility that Putin had the emails planted on Weiner’s laptop

…the really awful Bowles-Simpson proposal that Krugman has deconstructed so often since it was announced years ago. I do get his reluctance during this campaign to address that. And Clinton…