…track doing what it does best – saving lives and improving the health and well-being of all Americans. I hope my colleagues on the Finance Committee will work with me…

by Bradford DeLong (originally published at Grasping Reality with Both Hands) THE DAMNATION OF THE PROFESSIONAL REPUBLICAN POLICY INTELLECTUALS I have long known that the thoughtful and pulls-no-punches Amitabh Chandra…

Hannity as Goebbels Joseph Goebbels famously said that if you want to convince a populace of A Big Lie (fake news), then you do it by repeating it, over and…

…in boosting GDP growth.[13] It is not only that GDP doesn’t distinguish between goods and bads. Systematic mismeasurement puts a premium on expanding the proportion of bads to goods. Over…

A Weak Defense of Citizen United: Ownership v. Control Many thanks to Peter Dorman for highlighting Citizens United As Bad Corporate Law. I guess we had to endure this comment,…

…for Thirty Years of Climate Crisis Mitigation: Implementing a Global Green New Deal and Marshall Plan” – Ron Baiman, Benedictine University “Green New Deal: Interdisciplinary Heterodox Approaches” – Mathew Forstater,…

…times ratio by way of a per capita calculation that is not only preposterous but also wrong in Kirsanow’s own terms, even setting aside the not inconsiderable fact that according…

…operations, removing sorting machines, cutting hours at post offices, culling collection boxes, and putting a management hiring freeze in place, but what concrete steps have you taken to further the…

…men on the White House “economic team,” including Peter Orszag and Ezekiel Emanuel, fought hard to push “game-changing” cost-containment into the ACA but were defeated by others who were less…

…Americans seeking jobs ‘should help push up the unemployment rate.’” “The growing housing supply shortage has created a housing affordability crisis” | Economic Policy Institute (epi.org), Adewale A. Maye and…