by Gaius Publius on 12/04/2010 06:11:00 PM



With a nice nod to Digby, Paul Krugman makes an essential cultural point about Beltway opposition to Social Security - it's all about class (my emphasis throughout):
[A] fair number of “centrist” Democrats - probably including the Incredible Shrinking President - seem willing, even eager, ( Read more... )

by Gaius Publius on 12/03/2010 01:05:00 PM



Paul Krugman weighs in on the Cave Week theme. There are a lot of ways to see the message of this column. One way is, Here's what Obama is made of:
After the Democratic “shellacking” in the midterm elections, everyone wondered how President Obama would respond. Would he show what he was ( Read more... )

by Gaius Publius on 11/13/2010 06:02:00 PM



Buried in a great article by Juan Cole on Obama's Asia trip is this comment on the Bush-Cheney "foreign wars" project. It's the clearest statement yet of what those two were really up to, and what they, and we, got for their trouble:
George W. Bush and Dick Cheney thought in terms of ( Read more... )

With both QE2 & Halloween just around the corner, a holiday counter-perspective

CNBC
Fed Policies Are a Horror Show For US Economy: Grantham

Fund manager Jeremy Grantham, long a Federal Reserve critic, issued a blistering attack on Fed policies Wednesday, likening its strategy of low interest rates and monetary easing to a Halloween horror movie ( Read more... )

From HuffPo
Janine R. Wedel and Linda Keenan
October 7, 2010 07:19 AM

The fire is long out at Gene Cranick's house. But the rhetorical battle continues over the symbolic significance of the South Fulton Fire Department's decision to let Cranick's home burn because he hadn't paid a fee that those living outside the town must pay. Some commentators ( Read more... )

From Robert Reich's BlogFriday, September 24, 2010 ( Read more... )

by Gaius Publius on 9/20/2010 01:08:00 PM



It looks like it's coming. The rich are pushing back against the demise of their Big Boy tax cuts - with a vengeance. The Professor:
Anger is sweeping America. True, this white-hot rage is a minority phenomenon, not something that characterizes most of our fellow citizens. But the angry ( Read more... )

From The New York Times

The Real Story
Next week, President Obama is scheduled to propose new measures to boost the economy. I hope they’re bold and substantive, since the Republicans will oppose him regardless - if he came out for motherhood, the G.O.P. would declare motherhood un-American. So he should put them on the spot for standing in the way ( Read more... )

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by Gaius Publius on 8/21/2010 12:29:00 AM

Some Friday Krugman for your early morning pleasure (my emphasis):
As I look at what passes for responsible economic policy these days, there’s an analogy that keeps passing through my mind. I know it’s over the top, but here it is anyway: the policy elite - central bankers, finance ministers ( Read more... )