Douglas Holtz Eakin

Shift To Obama vs. Romney Marks End (Maybe) To Silly Season

HuffingtonPost.com | Jon Ward | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: Video, National Debt, Debt Ceiling, Elections 2012, Mitt Romney, Jared Bernstein, Medicare, Health Care, Paul Ryan, Barack Obama, Federal Budget, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The news Thursday was dominated by Democratic accusations that the Republican National Committee chairman compared women to caterpillars...

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Member Of John Boehner's 'Kitchen Cabinet' Of Economists Supports Afghan Withdrawal

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 06.11.2011

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WASHINGTON -- As Congress looks at all sorts of discretionary non-defense projects to cut to reduce the deficit, a core member of House Speaker John B...

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The G.O.P.'s Fiscally-Conservative Frauds

Susan J. Demas | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Bill, John Boehner, Budget Cuts, George W. Bush, Congressional Budget Office, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Paygo, Deficit, Brian Williams, Tea Party Movement, Barack Obama, Cutgo, Spending, Tax Cuts, Henry Paulson, Tea Party, Paul Ryan, Estate Tax, Politics News

Repealing the new national health care reform law will explode the national deficit by $230 billion by 2021. Tea Partiers must be pretty sore at these charlatans of fiscal conservatism.

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Republican "Fifth Column" Strikes Financial Commission. Are YOU Next?

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Republican Saboteurs, Robert Rubin, Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, Fcic, Precognition, Dave Johnson, Keith Hennessey, Steve Benen, Sleeper Cells, The Minority Report, Bill Thomas, Digby, Mutants, Peter Wallison, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Business News

A sleeper cell of four Republicans struck the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission this week, escalating what had previously been a campaign of covert obstruction into an overt act of sabotage.

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Fed's $900 Billion Program Gets Slammed Conservatives, Investors

The Huffington Post | William Alden | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Interest Rates, Jim Chanos, Niall Ferguson, Cliff Asness, Inflation, Economic Crisis, Business News, Quantitative Easing, Federal Reserve, E21, Ben Bernanke, Dan Senor, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, James Grant, Business News

Adding their voices to the chorus of criticism of the Federal Reserve, a group of academics, analysts, GOP strategists, hedge fund managers and publis...

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Megabanks Will Shrink, Bernanke Tells Financial Crisis Commission, Yet Doubts Over Too Big To Fail Remain

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 09.02.2010

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In one of his most definitive statements on the subject to date, the nation's central banker said Thursday that he expects some of the nation's megaba...

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How Victorianism Pervades Our Economic Debates

Jonathan Weiler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: David Brooks, Stimulus Spending, Deficit Reduction, Deficit Hawks, Brad Delong, Tobin Tax, Victorian Morality, Dean Baker, Bush Tax Cuts, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Business News

Public discussion about appropriate taxing and spending priorities have become warped by an insidious, if often implicit, moralism.

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McCain's Top Campaign Adviser: Record Deficits Would Have Happened Under McCain, Too

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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The top economic adviser to John McCain's presidential campaign acknowledged on Monday that the U.S. would be running a historic deficit this year eve...

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McCain Economist: GOP Will Lose Without Alternative Health Care Bill

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Boehner Health Care, Health Care Reform, Douglas Holtz-Eakin Health Care, Republicans Health Care, Gop Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Politics News

The McCain campaign's senior economist said on Monday that the Republican Party will lose the health care debate unless it presents one, comprehensive...

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John McCain Was For Actual Internet Freedom Before He Was For Fake "Internet Freedom"

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Video, John McCain, Internet Freedom Act, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Net Neutrality, Eat the Press, Media News

So, John McCain wants the internet to be a terrifying user experience for everybody, and is pimping the ironically named, net neutrality-killing "Inte...

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McCain Adviser: Obama Burdened By Campaign Pledge On Health Care

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Christina Romer, Tax Policy, Douglas Holtz Eakin, McCain Adviser, Barack Obama, Obama McCain, Obama Romer, Health Care Coverage, Employer Coverage, Tax Credit, Politics News

An ongoing lobby effort to get the White House to fund health care reform by ending the tax breaks for employers who provide coverage to their workers...

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Former McCain Adviser Calls For Bank Nationalization

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Financial Crisis, Paul Krugman, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Bank Nationalization, Eat the Press, Politics News

Via Matt Yglesias, it would seem that Douglas Holtz-Eakin, who advised John McCain on economic matters, has come out in favor of bank nationalization....

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McCain Adviser A No Show At Tech Debate

Think Progress | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John McCain, Mccain Campaign Tech Debate, Mccain Tech Debate, New America Foundation, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, New America Foundation Tech Debate, Douglas Holtz Eakin Debate, Politics News

Today from 12:30-1:45 p.m., the New America Foundation and Wired magazine were scheduled to host an event on tech policy with top McCain adviser Dougl...

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McCain Campaign: Our Health Plan Doesn't Work

Jason Rosenbaum | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John McCain, Health Care, Health, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Douglas Holtz Eakin, Health Care Plan, John McCain Health Care Plan, Politics News

According to McCain's senior economic policy adviser, McCain's health care plan won't destroy the employer-based insurance system because the plan doesn't work.

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McCain Camp Blames Obama For Bailout Failure (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: David Shuster, John McCain, Video, Paulson Bailout, Financial Crisis, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Mccain Blackberry, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Politics News

Here's a video of MSNBC's David Shuster -- whose over-arching disbelief in the John McCain camp version of events seems to be firming up as the mainst...

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Losing It: McCain Camp Goes Ballistic, Blames Obama For Crash

HuffingtonPost.com | Jed Lewison | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: David Shuster, House Vote, John McCain, Video, Bailout, Barack Obama, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Financial Crisis, Politics News

Moments after the Dow Jones largest single-day point drop ever, the McCain campaign went on the warpath, blaming Barack Obama for the crash of the bai...

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McCain Actually Blocked Creation Of Blackberry

Politico | Posted 05.25.2011

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To those who express doubts about his economic acumen, John McCain has a simple answer: "I was chairman of the Commerce Committee, which oversights al...

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McCain Invented Blackberry? Adviser Says He Helped

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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MIAMI — Move over, Al Gore. You may lay claim to the Internet, but John McCain helped create the BlackBerry. At least that's the contention of ...

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McCain Top Economic Adviser: He Will Raise Taxes

Time | Posted 05.25.2011

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Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a former Director of the Congressional Budget Office and current chief McCain economic advisor, is an honest man--which means he'...

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McCain Surrogate Cantor Inadvertently Derided On McCain Conference Call

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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There was no shortage of villains during a McCain campaign conference call on energy policy Monday morning. Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, President Bush...

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The Budget Debate for Grownups

Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Miles Rapoport, John McCain, Robert Reich, Brookings Instituion, Budget, Baby Boomers, U.S. Budget, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Business News

If we continue doing nothing, in about 35 years, the government will have no money for anything other than Medicare, Social Security and interest on the money we've already borrowed.

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