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Obama’s Cabinet

…was expecting David Addington) Treasury Douglas Holtz-Eakin HHS Charles Krauthammer MD Intelligence Director Steve Clemons Labor Mark Penn Interior Ralph Nader Energy Sarah Palin Commerce Glenn Hubbard Vetarans Saxby Chambliss…

Krugman was Wrong today

Ken Houghton Or at least optimistic. McCain is going after Medicare and Medicaid. But Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Sen. McCain’s senior policy adviser, said Sunday that the campaign has always planned to…

More on the McCain Health Care Plan

…to anyone ever, but it is still nonsense. Now what is the logic of serious economists who helped design the McCain plan (Douglas Holtz-Eakin is, for all I know, not…

Shop til you drop due diligence

…22 percent stake in GRUMA, Maseca’s parent company. Today, ADM’s formidable board chair G. Allen Andreas sits on GRUMA’s board of directors, as does the company’s CFO, Douglas J. Schmalz….

Health Care: Do Tax-based Subsidies Reduce Costs?

…form the question and provides one possible answer to it: From the moderate right, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a former Bush economic advisor and Republican-appointed director of the Congressional Budget Office, described…

…for Policy Douglas Feith in July. Though the new officials were briefed about terrorism and some of the earlier planning, including that for Operation Infinite Resolve [the military options for…

…by Time magazine, noted that Douglas Feith, a senior Pentagon official, had signed off on the deal “contingent on informing WH [the White House] tomorrow.” “We anticipate no issues since…

…war plan, should resign today. His deputies Paul Wolfowitz, Douglas Feith and his intelligence chief Stephen Cambone should also resign. The nation is especially at risk every single day that…