…least, a member of President Obama’s National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform). In an interview with The Telegraph, the Bank of England Governor suggests that the US and UK…

Jamie Galbraith writes in The Nation: In Defense of Deficits The Simpson-Bowles Commission, just established by the president, will no doubt deliver an attack on Social Security and Medicare dressed…

…equal the rate on work income, and that he did this in order to narrow the budget deficit. And that it worked! It narrowed the budget deficit! But Romney said…

…the Post did not even mention plans by the Bowles-Simpson and the Pew-Peterson deficit commission to cut the annual cost of living adjustment. This change would reduce benefits by an…

Via Truthout Dean Baker points to continuing insistent of President Obama to keep Social Security ‘on the table’. Dean Baker has a take on some numbers surrounding the politics and…

…this out a day before the State of the Union address, if not to give Obama a chance to mention it, along with an accompanying explanation of how such an…

…a Sunday column this week. I figured he just didn’t want me to mock another of his mindless rants about liberal/Obama government/centralized-headquarters-controlled operations that would undermine creativity and initiative–such as…

MSNBC reports Obama signs tax cut bill into law : The Senate vote was 65-31. The House had passed an identical version of the bill, 250-175, on Wednesday. Link to…

…in 2012 when Obama will “might face extra credibility problems”. I think we only knew this was going to happen because Obama didn’t fight on this at all. Obama signalled…

…this interview, one realizes what President Obama has been up against. He beings by observing that, if he succeeds, President Obama will be making history. RATHER: “It will be the…