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Dueling Opinions on the End of the Bush Tax Cuts

By | 08.17.10 | 5:37 pm

Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, in a New York Times opinion piece, suggests holding off on letting tax rates rise for wealthy Americans:

On Solution to Jobs Crisis, Left and Right Agree to Disagree

By | 02.23.10 | 6:15 pm

The American Action Forum — the right’s answer to the Center for American Progress — launched itself into the public consciousness Tuesday in Washington with a debate on Congress’ efforts to tackle the jobs crisis, which has left nearly one in five Americans without work or underemployed.

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Why Should Defense Spending Be Sancrosanct?

By | 01.26.10 | 10:11 am

Whether or not the Obama administration’s spending “freeze” is a hatchet or a scalpel — see Rachel Maddow’s grilling of vice-presidential economist Jared Bernstein yesterday — defense spending is going to be unaffected. Why in the world should that be?

White House Economist: ‘No Reason’ to Alter Cash for Clunkers

By | 07.31.09 | 1:26 pm

House lawmakers are on the floor as we speak debating a bill to provide $2 billion more to what proved to be a tremendously popular cash for clunkers program. And, while some lawmakers would like to see the conditions of that program changed to encourage the More…