Talking Points Memo
40 Economists Say The GOP Has Abandoned Economic Reality
A survey of forty economists from across the ideological and partisan spectrum has concluded that on some of its most cherished issues, the Republican Party has simply taken leave of economic reality. For instance, economists Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers noted that ( Read more... )

From The NYTBy PAUL KRUGMAN ( Read more... )

By Chris in Paris on 3/21/2012 11:45:00 AM

Of course they're unimpressed, because it generates a much more significant amount of money than the GOP plans to tax the poor and middle class. Forget all of the GOP talk about how there are so many Americans who don't pay taxes and ought to pay taxes even though taxing them would never come close to ( Read more... )

Data: US hiring was strong and firing was very few in December

New estimates just released from ADP suggest that the number of new jobs created last month may have been double what was expected. Plus, the four week moving average of initial jobless claims fell to to its lowest level in three and a half years during the month.

From Econoday.com
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Coming Apart: Inertia, Not Progress Defines the Decade After 9/11 ( Read more... )

By Steve M, No More Mister Nice Blog
Posted on September 20, 2011
Via AlterNet

From an AP "fact check" of the arguments underlying the president's call for the so-called Buffett tax:

There may be individual millionaires who pay taxes at rates lower than middle-income workers. In 2009, 1,470 households filed tax returns with incomes above $1 ( Read more... )

by Gaius Publius
on 9/03/2011 07:15:00 PM

In the context of news that the Obama ozone cave-in decision was Citizens United-related, we find this, from Zach Carter & Jordon Howard at the Huff Post (my emphasis):
As the nation struggles with a stagnant economy, President Barack Obama has preached overhauling the U.S. tax code to spur economic growth ( Read more... )

From McClatchy Newspapers
Regulations, taxes aren't killing small business, owners sayWASHINGTON - Politicians and business groups often blame excessive regulation and fear of higher taxes for tepid hiring in the economy. However, little evidence of that emerged when McClatchy canvassed a random sample of small business owners across the nation ( Read more... )

Stop Coddling the Super-Rich
By WARREN E. BUFFETT
Published: August 14, 2011

OUR leaders have asked for “shared sacrifice.” But when they did the asking, they spared me. I checked with my mega-rich friends to learn what pain they were expecting. They, too, were left untouched.

While the poor and middle class fight for us in Afghanistan, and while most ( Read more... )

Yes, Taxes Really Do Kill Job Creation:

Joe and Molly really have it made. They started their small business and built it up to a real excellent small business. It was a big risk at the beginning. They had to work long hours and make do with small returns for quite a few years. But they’ve finally established themselves in a way that not that many ( Read more... )