In his speech on inequality Barack Obama said it’s also true that some programs in the past, like welfare before it was reformed, were sometimes poorly designed, created disincentives to…

Back in 2008, after he was elected but before he took office, I wrote a piece countering what I thought was the strongest attack on Obama’s Natural Born Citizen status….

…of the way we pay our bills? … I don’t think anyone would consider my position unreasonable. — President Obama, today So President Obama does read Angry Bear. Cool! Seriously,…

…– who was a genuine deficit hawk – and that Obama is to the right of Clinton. That is intended to be slightly hyperbolic, but using this data as the…

by Linda Beale Obama’s FY 2011 Budget The Obama Administration released its FY2011 Budget proposals today which assumes a substantial amount of tax cuts (making the 2001-2003 Bush cuts permanent…

…may be Obama’s secret to his oratory ability? He thinks deficits matter. He thinks companies have a morality problem: The evidence shows that companies are particularly likely to raise prices…

…lists do reflect what are considered the political realities, and Obama is widely viewed by non-Republicans as a political-realities type of guy. Including by me. And by Hillary Clinton. And…

…are, of course, some questions about the Exxon Mobil cases that he should and probably will be asked, by Democratic members of the Judiciary Committee if Obama does nominate him,…

…policies are tax cuts for rich people. Their hero Reagan signed into law a huge tax increase on the non-rich (Greenspan commission proposals). In practice they cut taxes for rich…

…in advance. So Ronald Reagan convened the National Commission on Social Security Reform, generally referred to as the Greenspan Commission, to head off the predictable financing problem. Following the Commission’s recommendations,…