I’m surprised that Paul Krugman is surprised
By Robert Waldmann Paul Krugman writes Max Baucus — Max Baucus! — is leading the charge on a health care plan that, at least at first read, is more like…
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The Spitting/Splitting Moment: When Obama lost the New Dealers
…his last months of life, this was going to be the Baucus Bill or maybe the Baucus-Grassley Bill. And with a third mouthful he spat right in the face of…
CBO Preliminary Score of Baucus’s Chairman’s Mark
by Bruce Webb (h/t kharris) A Summary of the Specifications for Health Insurance Coverage Provided by the Staff of the Senate Finance Committee. ‘Preliminary’ doesn’t begin to describe this, it…
Clinton Announces When She Will Disclose Her Healthcare Insurance Improvement Plan: She’ll announce it just as soon as the Republican presidential candidates tell us theirs. [Typo in sentence referencing Max Ehrenfreund’s Wonkblog post corrected 3/2 at 2:28 p.m.]
…not quite the perfect candidate to compete against Trump. According to the NYT, the Clinton campaign itself now shares our concern. The Washington Post Wonkblog writer Max Ehrenfreund on February…
Was it a Gang of Seven?
by Bruce Webb Max Baucus of Montana (pop 935,670- 89.2% white) Kent Conrad of North Dakota (pop 636,677- 90.1% white) Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico (pop 1,928,384- 42.8% white) Michael…
Conrad-Gregg Modified, but not Defanged
…Dog democrats anymore than a figleaf of cover. Update: Baucus comes out strong against Conrad-Gregg, though mostly it seems because he doesn’t want to have his Committee bypassed. http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/10/baucus-dont-outsource-my-committee/ This…
The Impending Doom, Gloom, and Fiery Crash of Independent Meat Processors
…sold at major retailers today, such as legendary Half of Fame MLB pitcher Nolan Ryan’s private label beef that is carried exclusively at Kroger stores, or at his private label…
Accounting for the Current Economic Crisis and Inadequate Political Responses
…the past” can. The question Max was addressing was the attitude of the left, broadly defined, toward financial bailouts. At that time, it was South Korea on the block. Max’s…
Raising the Social Security Earnings Cap: Four Options Scored by SSA
…Under both scenarios it is possible to either calculate benefits based on the current-law tax max (no max and max 90) or to credit the new taxable amounts toward benefits…
Ideal Labor Share to max Employment… message to the Fed
This post is a message to the Federal Reserve if they are serious about maximizing employment. Yesterday I posted a model for labor share plotted against labor (Qty.) in response…