Greg Sargent reports that a number of Blue Dog House Democrats want to extend the Bush tax cuts for...
Category - Economy
It's the Stupid, Stupid
Via Kevin Drum, the new Washington Post poll shows across-the-board preference for the Democrats...
Infrastructure Across America
The president this weekend: “Over the next six years,” Mr. Obama promised “we are going to rebuild...
Wars Make Deficits Okay
From Krugman's column today, this surprised me: Consider Gallup polling from March 1938. Asked...
More Stimulus, If You Please
New CNN poll: According to the survey, more Americans hold the Republicans responsible than the...
Payroll Tax Holiday Special
One of the Obama administration's big recovery ideas at this point is a payroll tax holiday. In...
Eugene Robinson Obviously Hates You
Are the American people spoiled? Yes we are. Are the American people impatient? Yes we are. Are the...
Double-Dip Avoided?
Mixed news: The Labor Department says companies added a net total 67,000 new jobs last month, down...
My Friend Cenk Uygur
On MSNBC this afternoon, Cenk absolutely shredded a former GOP congressman on Social Security. Yep...
And Don't Call Me Stimulus
Via Steve Benen: The Obama administration is considering a range of new measures to boost economic...
All of the 90s Mayhem, Without the Prosperity
Krugman spells out the consequences should the Republican take the House: We already know part of...
Second Stimulus
Laura Tyson is a member of the Obama administration's Economic Recovery Advisory Board and she...
America Wants More Stimulus
The just-released Newsweek poll: "Which one of the following do you think should have the higher...
Firing the Heroes
Maybe extending the tax cuts for Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin will solve this: Fire departments...
Super Stupid
This: With the economy rapidly weakening, some senior Democrats are having second thoughts about...
The Non-Stimulus Solutions
We've been talking about ways the administration can pump up the dwindling recovery -- or more...
Boehner Was Wrong on the Stimulus
Of course. Mark Zandi, Moody's chief economist, said Boehner was "just wrong" to call the $787...
The Good News
I feel bad about the gloomy economic post last night, so here's some positive news from the same...
310 Million Tits
I'm still not sure how a crackpot like Alan Simpson ended up co-chairing the president's deficit...
The Scary Economy
Dday analyzes the new CBO report on the Recovery Act: ...not only would the economy have contracted...