Krugman and deficits
…involve increasing debt. People on the right tend to use “Keynesian” to mean “liberal stuff I don’t like,” but aside from that definition, the 1970s tell us nothing about the…
…involve increasing debt. People on the right tend to use “Keynesian” to mean “liberal stuff I don’t like,” but aside from that definition, the 1970s tell us nothing about the…
…can’t imagine how it would have been if I had kids. And this comment on a post by Paul Krugman, on the liberal side of the spectrum: I personally have…
…in Obama’s failure during most of his first term to communicate, effectively or at all, the basic premises of Keynesian and other liberal economics-related arguments (including on healthcare) was his…
…this post to add the following exchange this morning in the Comments thread, between reader Peter and me: PETER: Is this the same caring, compassionate, liberal, open-minded Matt Taibbi who…
…because he’s so influential now, that Klein’s piece yesterday siding with those who thought Obama’s speech Monday should not have set forth liberal policy positions in so in-your-face a manner,…
…of my parents, they of the ardent liberal Democrat variety– “Oh, no, Bevy! You have to return that purse. That company is anti-union!” “Okayyy, Mom.”)–run probably into the thousands. (Yikes.)…
…that’s what’s happening with our health care programs and these reforms.” Obamacare Is Fascist, Not Socialist In a short period after labeling the PPACA as fascism, John Mackey reconsiders his…
…policy and can, and will, craft a speech that explains it in the way some of the best liberal pundits do. But if he doesn’t do that, others, I trust,…
…the OCC acting in good faith in letting banks off the hook for their past predatory lending practices? Yves Smith at Naked Capitalism labels it a sellout at the expense…
…to use his leverage to pursue liberal policies and keeps inviting Republicans back to the negotiating table again and again on the budget. He wants a deal, he wants to…