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We've got a new red scare. Forget Glenn Beck. The fear isn't that America is going red, it's that it is in the red.
Marshall Auerback | Posted 09.29.2009 | Business
Government deficits are not an aberration; they are the norm. Our first (and possibly greatest) Treasury Secretary, Alexander Hamilton, called the national debt a "national blessing."
Paul A. London | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics
History-blind conservatives scare the country by saying that creating more money is a slippery slope to runaway inflation. This is not so. The real danger is the opposite.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.17.2009 | Media
Matt Yglesias says that the "White House speechwriting team delivers in the latest radio address with a helpful brief phrase that sums up the goals of...
Linda Bergthold | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics
There is little opportunity for a dialogue in which facts are presented if the people you are talking to have already made up their minds. BUT, if you want an effective Town Hall, here's some advice.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.20.2009 | Media
Yesterday, what prompted CNBC's Jim Cramer to suggest that President Barack Obama needed "to go away for a little bit," was a poll, whose numbers indi...
Sheldon Filger | Posted 07.01.2009 | Business
I never thought I would witness the day when Paul Krugman and Dick Cheney agree on economic policy.
Sheldon Filger | Posted 05.30.2009 | Business
There is no such thing as "too big to fail." That applies to countries and empires as well as companies. The United States of America included.
Robert L. Borosage | Posted 04.25.2009 | Politics
Will Obama's transformative budget survive? As his press conference last night illustrated, it runs a serious risk of drowning in a swamp of cant.
Michael DeJong | Posted 02.13.2009 | Living
Long gone is the unique American social phenomenon that each new generation will "do better" than the last. Things are starting to feel more like "The Grapes of Wrath" than "The Great Gatsby."
Andrew Winston | Posted 02.09.2009 | Green
I never thought I'd say it, but I agree with Exxon on an environmental issue.
Jonathan Tasini | Posted 02.07.2009 | Politics
When a political leader says the country will have to make some "very difficult choices", as Obama did, history instructs us that it is average people that get nailed. And it doesn't have to be that way.
Larry Beinhart | Posted 01.16.2009 | Politics
Let's start with what everyone can agree on. There was a Great Depression, then the New Deal, then World War II. Also, that America emerged from tha...
Dean Baker | Posted 01.02.2009 | Business
Every few years there is a book or movie that stands out for its incredibly bad timing. The new documentary IOUSA seems destined to join earlier classics of this genre.
Paul Abrams | Posted 11.27.2008 | Politics
Our dearly-beloved news media always prefers a manufactroversy -- Joe Biden was even asked by a Florida News Station whether it amounted to Communism! 4%!
Tom Farer | Posted 10.30.2008 | Politics
Why did Obama, superior in intellect and character, jab lightly and otherwise play rope-a-dope rather than delivering decisive blows to McCain's inviting jaw?
Robyn O'Brien | Posted 10.16.2008 | Living
As a mother of four, I don't do lipstick, but I understand economic policy, having earned an MBA on a scholarship and graduated as the top woman in my class.
Dave Johnson | Posted 09.13.2008 | Politics
Remember how Bush's tax cuts were supposed to help the economy? Remember how all his deregulation was supposed to help the economy? Remember how cut...
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Robert L. Borosage | Posted 10.28.2009 | Business