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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…

Does David Brooks Really Think Student Loans, Public Universities, Public Infrastructure, and Small Business Loans Are Attempts at Socialist Central Planning That Undermines Creativity and Private Enterprise? I Mean … REALLY?* [Appended 1/23]

…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.)…

Thoughts from economics writers on politics

…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…