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Eisenhower as a lefty politico

…for office today, he would have to run, I’m guessing as an independent, and not as some Joe Lieberman, in between the parties, independent. He’d be a Bernie Sanders independent….

Politics of taxes

…is–surprise, surprise–borne by the ordinary Joe who gets fired or sees his company driven to insolvency or at the least faces job insecurity during the time that the private equity…

Letting rates go up for the rich

…someone in the top 2 or 3 percent of the population, thinks of himself as just another ‘average Joe.’ Why don’t you ask someone who makes $40,000 or $50,000 a…

When S != I

…Not to sound like a broken record, but Excess Reserves put a spanner in that last one. Don’t believe me, ask economists Bruce Bartlett or Joe Gagnon. Or just look…