CBO Letter to Rep. Ryan re Stimulus Debt Service
by Bruce Webb Reader Movie Guy suggests that the following letter and table merit some discussion. It seems to speak for itself but the whole thing is short enough simply…
by Bruce Webb Reader Movie Guy suggests that the following letter and table merit some discussion. It seems to speak for itself but the whole thing is short enough simply…
by Bruce Webb (IMPORTANT UPDATE: REAL CBO REPORT RELEASED h/t Prof. K CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE COST ESTIMATE January 26, 2009 H.R. 1 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (oops…
by Bruce Webb (UPDATE: this piece was not drawing any attention so I decided to move it under the fold and save some screen space. But the headline tells the…
by Bruce Webb A little antidote to Amity Shlaes and the other New Deal Deniers. From TPM Cafe J.K. Galbraith introduces Marshall Auerback The view that the New Deal was…
by Bruce Webb (first three sentences edited since original post a few minutes ago) The 2005 Report was a mild disappointment. The 2006 Report somewhat worse. 2007 showed some mild…
by Bruce Webb. Sorry for two posts in a day. But the raw data is important. OAS (Old Age Survivor) starting 2008 balance $2.023 trillion Intermediate Cost projection for year…
by Bruce Webb What does it take? A stake through the heart? A bullet through the brain? Baker and Krugman do some pushback. Dean Baker in his post The Post’s…
by Bruce Webb Paul Rosenberg has started an interesting series over at Open Left that in some ways could see my post What is the Nexus? as prologue. The first…
…for being lulled by the Chinese (and Japanese to be fairer). bakho and Bruce Wilder make great comments, as well as Noni Mausa adding her penetrating questions. (Have to leave…
by Bruce Webb Back in the day even to hint at some of the subjects of Symbolman’s brilliant flash productions was to mark you as being infected with Bush Derangement…