…“extended baseline scenario” — a.k.a. projections based on current law — debt held by the public will grow to 67 percent of GDP by 2022. Under the GOP plan, public…

Jonathan Zasloff asks at The Reality-based Community blog New Directions in GOP Political Economy Quite subtle, actually: Public-sector collective bargaining is unhealthy and distorts democracy because it enables workers to…

…pensions generally, especially public pension plans for public employees), health care, and other such programs. Meanwhile, privatization includes privatizing Social Security (at least in part) and eliminating the progress (not…

Hat tip to Simon Johnson through Bloomberg and Baseline Scenario: Public Input for the Study Regarding the Implementation of the Prohibitions on Proprietary Trading and Certain Relationships With Hedge Funds…

…in response to concerns that the SEC is receiving extensive feedback from financial industry groups, but relatively little from the U.S. investing public. As required by the Dodd-Frank Act, the…

…of 2008—just after the election—to this NYT article: President-elect Barack Obama promised Saturday to create the largest public works construction program since the inception of the interstate highway system a…

Tom aka Rusty Rustbelt HEALTH CARE – PUBLIC POLICY DILEMMA Fifty years ago much mental illness treatment was done in-patient in state run facilities, and many of them were hellholes…

…term and even if they do won’t have the effect they need on either their Public Debt or Debt Held by the Public metrics, how is that supposed to reassure…

…and not letting the trigger point get too low. I would still push for a Public Option which allows direct inspection of and competition between Medical Loss Ratios between public…

…public provider of gasoline, why are you opposed to a public provider of health care ? Somewhat more importantly, the idea that the market for gasoline shows that we can…