Jason Linkins: >TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads: Evan Bayh, he wants someone to reduce the deficit for him, but he’d like to not do it himself. SOMEONE DO IT FOR HIM. And he yells at “far left wing blogs” for criticizing the spending freeze — in …
DeLong (1999): Why We Should Fear Deflation Sound Economy with Jon Talton | Somebody enjoyed 5.7 percent GDP growth but most of us just got this lousy T-shirt | Seattle Times Newspaper Ezra Klein: Rahm Emanuel makes me very pessimistic about health-car…
Brazil posted yet another monthly budget deficit in December, and, yet again, it’s not the economy getting a Keynesian boost. Before interest payments, the budget surplus was 2.06 per cent [...]
Obama: >I know that some in my own party will argue that we cannot address the deficit or freeze government spending when so many are still hurting. I agree, which is why this freeze will not take effect until next year, when the economy is stronger…
“What we have here,” he says, “is a failure” of the White House “to communicate”: >Ezra Klein: The Obama administration loses the deficit — and the spending — argument: you can’t look at this as anything less than a tremendous defeat for the Obama…
The CBO has its *Economic and Budget Outlook* out: The two most noteworthy of CBO’s analytical judgements, from my perspective: 1. Unemployment is not going to get much higher, but it is likely to stay above 8% until the second half of 2012 (and there …
The Congressional Budget Office today released its outlook for the budget deficit. No surprise: the deficit, as a proportion of GDP, is expected to fall considerably from 9.9 per cent [...]
Well, real deficit hawks are: >Sam Stein: Orszag Calls Senate Health Care Bill Biggest Cost-Container Ever Considered: The health care bill before the Senate would cut costs and reform health-care delivery more than any piece of legislation in Ameri…
1) Michael Linden: How to Spot a Deficit Peacock: >Deficit hawks come in a variety of breeds…. And then there is another species of deficit bird all together: the deficit peacock. Deficit peacocks like to preen and call attention to themselves, bu…
Stan Collender: Brad DeLong Gets It When It Comes To A Commission Michael Linden: How to Spot a Deficit Peacock: Four Ways to Tell When Someone Isn’t Serious About the Deficit Simon Johnson: Is The “Volcker Rule” More Than A Marketing Slogan? Viral…