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Beware of CEOs Bearing Budget Gifts

The mainstream media and blogosphere lit up like Christmas trees yesterday when 80 CEOs came together to call on Congress and the president to agree on a comprehensive deficit reduction plan that includes revenue increases and spending cuts. Here's David Wessel's story from The Wall Street Journal.

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Joseph M. Firestone's picture

These Folks are Soooo Clever . . .

Last week, Reps. more »

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Joseph M. Firestone's picture

Promises for America

The polling since the conventions shows that Democrats are doing better than expected. President Obama now apparently has a clear lead over Mitt Romney. Democratic Party control of the Senate seems likely to survive this election year of many more Democratic rather than Republican Senate seats up for election. more »

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Joseph M. Firestone's picture

Alan Grayson's Right; But He Misses the Larger Point

Alan Grayson's e-mail on Moody's warning that it might reduce the US's AAA rating, suggested that Moody's was either threatening a downgrade because it wants to get the Bush tax cuts for the rich extended, or, alternatively, that “Moody's is living in what Aristophanes called "Cloud Cuckoo Land."” He says this because Moody's is upset about the possibility that the US may go over the so-called more »

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Joseph M. Firestone's picture

No Plan B?

Bob Woodward's releasing a new book, so we are now seeing articles based on it. more »

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Joseph M. Firestone's picture

No, Barack, It Just Ain't Gonna Happen!

Who else thinks the President's speech didn't include any plans to create more »

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Joseph M. Firestone's picture

Ryan's Follies: Bureaucracy, Austerity, and Depression

Here's the next group of Ryan's follies from his answer to the President's 2011 SOTU.

On bureaucracy and innovation:

”Depending on bureaucracy to foster innovation, competitiveness, and wise consumer choices has never worked – and it won’t work now.”

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Joseph M. Firestone's picture

Ryan's Follies: Health Care Reform, Bankruptcy, and Tipping Points

Still more Ryan's follies from his answer to the President's 2011 SOTU.

On the Affordable Care Act (ACA)

”Then the President and his party made matters even worse, by creating a new open-ended health care entitlement. more »

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Joseph M. Firestone's picture

Ryan's Follies: Oy! Taxes, Decline, and Austerity

More on Ryan's follies and the overall quality of thinking we find in this young “guru”! more »

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Joseph M. Firestone's picture

Ryan's Follies: A Crushing Burden of Public Debt

In celebration of Paul Ryan's nomination, and in consideration of his reputation among Washington, DC villagers as a fiscal guru, I thought it might be fun to do a series of posts, of which this is the first, critiquing examples of Ryan's past wisdom. Here's the first example: more »

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