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Insanity Isn't Deficit Spending: It's Claiming That the Gov is a Household

It's a trope with our politicians, including the President, his likely Republican opponent Mitt Romney, and an emerging third party candidate over at Americans Elect and NoLabels, Pete Peterson's long-time Sancho Panza, David Walk more »

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Hey Patriotic Billionaires, You Can Do Better Than the Buffett Rule, Anyway

Well, the legislation implementing “The Buffett Rule” has been voted down in Congress as we all knew it would be. But so what? more »

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A Reply to the President About Real Choices

A few days back, the President had some remarks on taxes, fairness, "The Buffett Rule," “fiscal responsibility,” and making real choices with real consequences. more »

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Avoiding A Debt Ceiling Election Sellout!

During the past few months the results of polling suggest that Barack Obama will be re-elected. But they also show that his support is shallow and could be shaken easily by an economic downturn during the next 6 months. more »

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(MMT − JG) + Medicare for All ≠ MMT

In my last post, I discussed the first part of Beowulf's post entitled: “(MMT − JG) + Medicare for All = MMT,” and also some dialogues between Jamie Galbraith and both TomThumb and Beowulf related to the MMT Job Guarantee at more »

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Dialogues with Jamie Galbraith and the MMT Job Guarantee

A few days ago my friend Beowulf decided to exercise his wry sense of humor with this title of a post he offered for our consideration: “(MMT − JG) + Medicare for All = MMT.” Beo then goes on to talk about some details of a comment exchange with Jamie Galbraith at more »

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Ending Austerity: Getting Free of Debt Subject To the Limit

It's hard to listen to the doomsday rhetoric of Austerians like Paul Ryan and intermittently the less hysterical, but equally mythical narratives of the President when he talks about deficit/debt reduction, when you know better; when you know more »

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John Carney Doesn't Believe Government Spending Can Achieve Public Purpose

John Carney commented on a post by David Brooks and more »

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The WaPo MMT Post Explosion: Dean Baker's Second Try On MMT (3)

This is the third and last installment of a critical review of Dean Baker's second reaction to the debate kicked off by the more »

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The WaPo MMT Post Explosion: Dean Baker's Second Try On MMT (2)

This is the second installment of a critical review of Dean Baker's second reaction to the debate kicked off by the more »

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