How to Think About Aggregate Labor Markets
…can guess where this is headed. The interesting thing is that Cowen apparently has no inkling that most people would find his opening sentence insulting. It implies that some significant…
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Clinton admits she failed to do her homework, and therefore misunderstood, when she stated at the February debate that Dodd-Frank already authorizes the Treasury Dept. to force too-big-to-fail banks to pare down and that therefore no further legislation authorizing it is necessary. That’s quite an admission by her, and the New York Daily News editorial board (and the Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza) should take note.
…of policy. In questions about breaking up big banks, the powers of the Treasury Department and drone strikes, the editors were simply wrong on details. Take the exchange getting the…
Not just Musk; now Theil has his hands in your pants
And the billionaire grift goes on and on. “One of the most important stories in some time came out two days ago. But with so much else going it didn’t…
Ryan Roadmap to Prosperity 2013
…him as Peter G Peterson’s representative to the Social Security Trustees. While Blahous is rather unapologetically employed by the Koch Brothers’ funded Mercatus Institute at GMU. And per Ryan EITHER…
DEAR PAUL KRUGMAN Please Read This about Social Security
…nothing to do with the deficit, cutting it will show “the market” that we are serious about controlling our deficit. Social Security is not going broke. It can’t go broke….
Real Ryan Roadmap: Tax Freedom for Billionaires
…as encouraging ‘savings’, but on inspection ‘savings’ here goes far beyond a worker’s 401k, it includes ALL investment by anyone including billionaires like Peter G Peterson and Warren Buffett. Because…
Why the Pelosi Rule MAY not be a sell-out on Social Security
…Deficit Commission is NOT the same as either Cooper-Wolff or Conrad-Gregg. Argument below the fold. The entire Peter G Peterson backed argument as manifested in both Cooper-Wolff and Conrad-Gregg is…
Please drop by the Virtual Summit on Social Security
…Social Security were going to get organized and push back on the Peter G Peterson contingent in a public way, well the answer was ‘yesterday April 20th, 2010’. Be there….
In Defense of Deficits
…employment and rising inflation–pushing up GDP and, in turn, stabilizing the debt-to-GDP ratio. Or the Federal Reserve would stabilize the interest payouts, simply by keeping short-term interest rates (which it…
How to Change Social Security to Reduce Future Public Debt
…tax, or simply by tapping a little of the revenue gained from the expiring tax cuts. If the Peter G Peterson’s of this world are REALLY believers in intergenerational equity…