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…
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Boehner is still wrong (even though the CBO ‘Report’ maybe kind of exists)
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…
S. Korean Econoblogger Jailed for Getting it Right
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…
Galbraith: Unemployment Statistics Of The New Deal Era
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…
Recalculating ‘Nothing’: Social Security in a Time of Recession
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…
2008 Social Security Balances: Projections vs. Actual
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…
Social Security ‘Reform’: the Undead Return
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…
Hegemony on Steroids: the NeoCons, Iraq, and Historical Revisionism
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…
Workers ruined US Economy by spending and then not working?
…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…
Symbolman: Dangerous lunatic or prophet before his time?
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…