…stating that a Republican economist does not care about the deficit and wants to raise the tax burden on the poor was too good for Michael Kinsley to check [“Republicans…

…relevant. I want to examine what it, and some other developments inside and outside the Obama Deficit Commission reveal about a new openness in class warfare. What Simpson’s comments revealed…

If we just don’t see it, it didn’t happen, amirite? “Trump administration officials delayed and redacted a government forecast because it predicts an increase in the nation’s trade deficit in…

…“deficit hawks, austerity mavens, trickle-down charlatans, and government haters who have commanded center stage for too long.” Memo to Obama: Focus on the inqueality gap, As Reich says: The President…

…strongly suggest that wage growth is bottoming. This is good news. But on the other hand it is exactly the type of change the inflation hawks are warning us about…

…— can’t resist re-posting it over here for those who haven’t seen it. Red States Sucking the Federal Teat Just a reminder for all those red-state debt-ceiling hawks out there….

…are the hawks who have so far marginalized the defense and intelligence establishments in both Israel and the U.S.? They’re a collection of think-tankers and politicians, most absolutely sincere, in…

…hard to see how firms can pass higher commodity prices through to consumers. The inflation hawks seem to be ignoring the point that higher prices or inflation is most likely…

…unemployment, and the inflation that comes with it, rather than too little. However, with the inflation hawks writing almost daily in the WSJ and elsewhere that we need to raise…

…the interest on the near trillion dollars in debt they are buying. In the face of all the screeching by the deficit hawks about unsustainable debt and debt service and…