A non-blogging friend points me to this new article at Forbes by Chris Conover purporting to show that the “typical family of 4” will see its health care spending rise…

…control by cutting “entitlements”. I guess it’s a matter of debate as to the definition of entitlement. Chris Hayes…I’m still available for your show and so are the other Bears….

…in part to the sequester; but thanks largely to the miracle of sustained growth, the annual deficit is shriveling. Homeless Couple Gets A Home On Christmas Eve, Thanks To Innovative…

…Dick Durbin, Sherrod Brown, Elizabeth Warren, Patty Murray, Barbara Mikulski, Chris Coons, Sheldon Whitehouse, Jeff Merkley, Tom Udall. And, yes, Harry Reid. Please pick up Boehner’s gauntlet, senators. And soon….

by Robert Waldmann (Dan here…lightly edited for readability and Robert’s sense of humor)) House effects Noah Smith and Chris House are engaged in a stimulating blogospheric discussion. I am tempted…

…Uh Chris I’m a progressive and I sure didn’t have that impression in the 1980s and earlier. Name a progressive preacher of that gospel (it will have to be one…

…Fred Wertheimer. Coverage of the decision comes from Chris Geidner at BuzzFeed, Sahil Kapur of Talking Points Memo (here and here), ISCOTUS (video), Adam Liptak of The New York Times,…

…trade. But now other international economic linkages are being investigated. The International Monetary Fund’s Managing Director, Christine Lagarde, has acknowledged the need to take distributional consequences into considerationwhen designing IMF…

…[skip] I mean, this is largely what Chris Sims got his prize for. It’s about as close to a fully established empirical result as we have in economics. [skip] What…

From All In with Chris Hayes, MSNBC 2001-2003…