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CIA, TIA & RBC: Who was watching?

…was largely defunded. On January 16, 2003, Senator Russ Feingold introduced legislation to suspend the activity of the IAO and the Total Information Awareness program pending a Congressional review of…

Time to move beyond "Nothing" on Social Security?

…and admirals, a handful of retired Congressional defense hawks, a former Secty of the Army, six former Republican cabinet level officials, two college Presidents with strong ties to Wall Street,…

A Further Critique of Romer and Romer

…record, such as presidential speeches and Congressional reports, to identify the size, timing, and principal motivation for all major postwar tax policy actions. Long story short – they identified all…

M3 Death Watch

…that he is “a congressional expert on monetary policy”, who took it upon himself during the last Congressional hearings to teach Chairman Bernanke that inflation is a monetary phenomenon. In…

Another Commission

Congressional Budget Office. “Comparing Budgetary and Trust Fund Measures of the Outlook for Social Security and Medicare“, Congressional Budget Office. …among numerous, numerous others. When will it actually be time…

California Redistricting, Part II

…voters, rarely does the concentration of Dem. voters in these geographic districts match the extraordinary Dem. concentration in current Congressional districts – where 7 seats were won by 60 point…

The Stock Market and Economy

Congressional Republicans want to change the AMT (which is probably necessary if they don’t want the effectively undo the tax cuts of the past few years), and extend the child…

…Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) and Fred F. Fielding, a member of investigative panel. They have suggested that sworn testimony Clarke gave in 2002 to a joint congressional committee that probed…

…to Dobbs’ latest poll. Here are the questions: LOU DOBBS TONIGHT QUICKVOTE Whose view of the situation in Iraq do you believe most? Bush administration’s Congressional Democrats’ Media’s United Nations’…

Protectionism and Congressional Republicans Brad DeLong has a link to this, from Morgan Stanley economist Stephen Roach: Cries of protectionism can be heard loud and clear in the hallowed halls…