NYT: Obama Picks Michigan Professor for Fed Board
Obama Picks Michigan Professor for Fed Board WASHINGTON — President Obama said on Monday that he would nominate Kathryn M. Dominguez, a professor of economics at the University of Michigan,…
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More on the Threat to Social Security and Medicare from the so-called "Fiscal Cliff"
…still enter into such a “Grand Bargain” to avoid the so-called “fiscal cliff.” Progressives hope, at least, that Obama will not fall prey to those same conclusions: Obama is now…
Politically Feasible Stimulus
Robert Waldmann Is going to disagree with Barack Obama and Paul Krugman (alternative title “which one here is not like the others”). Krugman writes and Obama implies that no large…
Obama caves yet again: offering Social Security cuts to appease the right…
by Linda Beale Obama caves yet again: offering Social Security cuts to appease the right… Obama’s budget isn’t even released yet and he’s already caving to the “let’s make the…
Obama and social safety nets
…political strategy. However, here is Linda Beale’s take on the issue: Obama not standing up to radical right attempting to undo America’s Social Insurance ProgramObama seemed to get a spine…
Obama and Regulatory Uncertainty
…two years of the Obama administration the number of pages in the Federal Register averaged 75,875 as compared to and average of 75,894 under Bush. So far Obama appears to…
Stop Acting Surprised
…weak and feeble, I’d like to repost something I wrote a few days after Obama was elected in its entirety below: Is Obama Starting Poorly? One of the things that…
Obama’s State of the Union Tax Proposals
by Linda Beale Obama’s State of the Union Tax Proposals President Obama delivered his first State of the Union speech tonight, assuring us that we could jump-start job creation through…
Tax Policy Center calls McCain campaign out for cheating.
…to their intelligence. Below their thoughts on what Obama really has in mind. Senator Obama’s proposal to exempt seniors with income below $50,000 from income tax but continue full taxation…
Apparently there’s a special place in hell for Democratic politicians who criticize Barack Obama as insufficiently progressive. And a special place in heaven for politicians who have accepted $133,246 from the private-prisons industry but tell Black and Hispanic voters at a debate shortly before the Nevada caucuses and South Carolina primary that they want to end the private-prison system.
…insurance system to eliminate private healthcare insurance for the benefits that the single-payer plan provides. As if the purpose of Obamacare was to create some living monument to Obama, rather…