Some of the recommendations as outlined by TPM from the Pres. Obama’s Bowles and Simpson fiscal commission: Social Security cuts: Index the retirement age to longevity — i.e., increase the…

I took a couple of days to let life interfere with blogging, but none of the standard politics/economics bloggers seems to have highlighted this note from the Lex column of…

…some worrisome tendencies that smack of racism or at least ad hominem attacks irrelevant to questions of good governance (questioning Obama’s faith, which should be irrelevant to national office; his…

…change in policy is a tax increase. Montgomery is blaming Obama for not undoing all of the damage that Bush did. This is the general slant. Obama is blamed for…

…a few hundred billion. So in the Obama compromise proposal (the first proposal from the Obama administration) the donut tax returned. The bill imposes new taxes on wealthier people. Individuals…

Robert Waldmann It’s alive update: Igor Volsky provides a good summary of the proposal As far as I can see the Snowe plan worst tax ever free rider provision to…

…the awesome missmatch Barack Obama vs the House Republican Study Group where 90% of the brains were in Obama’s skull, one of the key takedowns was when Mike Pence claimed…

rdan Here is a link to an MSNBC President Obama and healthcare video plus a CBS full transcript….

…relevant chairmen intensely relieved when Obama doesn’t endorse it publicly. I’m sure the political team also wanted to include a killing puppies plank in their proposal, but Obama told them…

…that U.S. President Barack Obama hasn’t said or done enough to support those demonstrating in the streets of Iran. Do you think Obama is being too careful? Or even that…