Krugman: The clear and present danger to recovery, however, comes from politics — specifically, the...
Category - Economy
Shutdown Remains A Possibility
Posted by JM Ashby I'm beginning to get the idea that we're going to be seeing a lot of two-week...
How To Save $2 Trillion by 2020
Posted by JM Ashby The Environmental Protection Agency, and more specifically, the Clean Air Act...
Zero Is Too High
Posted by JM Ashby The very serious Tim Pawlenty, a possible presidential contender who is...
Bernanke Joins The Chorus
Posted by JM Ashby Although Bernanke's warnings are more subdued than that of his public...
State Revenue Plummets
Posted by JM Ashby A variable that is sorely missing from the budget debate, not just locally, but...
Republicans Aren't Fiscal Conservatives
Don't believe the lie. The Republicans aren't fiscal conservatives or deficit hawks or whatever...
Scott Walker is 'Un-American'
And who said that? Joe Scarborough, of all people. "I'm going to get so killed for saying this ...
Cantor Shrugs at Job Losses
Posted by JM Ashby "So be it." In his weekly Capitol briefing with reporters, Cantor acknowledged...
Playing Games With The Debt Ceiling
Posted by JM Ashby In addition to the very real prospect of a government shutdown occurring in the...
Whoever Wins, We Lose
Jon Cohn raises a sobering point: But if the political future isn't clear to me, the policy future...
Republican Sabotage
The Republicans have calculated that if they rig the budget in such a way that economic growth...
Report: House Budget Would Kill 700,000 Jobs
Posted by JM Ashby "So be it." WASHINGTON – The Republican budget proposal to sharply cut federal...
Quote of the Day
“I have one dollar in my wallet. That’s more than the combined income tax liability of GE...
Republicans Sabotaging Economic Growth
From an obviously liberal source: In a recent report, economists at Goldman Sachs estimated that...
The Liberal Conspiracy to Build Things
Gather your survival packs and gold whatnots -- and run for the hills! General Motors is making...
Austerity In Europe Has Failed
Via Balloon Juice, it appears as if "sitting around the dinner table and tightening various belts"...
The Upside-Down World of Fat Jesus
Chris Christie in his budget address yesterday: And in Wisconsin and Ohio, they have decided there...
Republican Amnesia
Robert Reich reminds us about Scott Walker's priorities for Wisconsin: Before Wisconsin’s budget...
The Reality of a Shutdown
Benen notes the biggest difference between the shutdowns of the middle 1990s and now: Also note...