Rubinomics

Deficit Drivel: Hillary Singing Same Wrong Tune As Obama

Marshall Auerback | Posted 05.25.2011

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Marshall Auerback

Rational discourse about fiscal policy is not helped when our Secretary of State begins espousing the notion that our deficit represents a security threat, along the lines of a financial bubonic plague or comparable to a terrorist threat.

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Obama and Volcker: Economic Solutions, Good; Summers and Geithner: Financial Solutions, Not Good.

Saskia Sassen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Investments, Debt, U.S. Economy, Economy, Larry Summers, New York Review of Books, Taxpayers, Paul Volcker, Rubinomics, Economic Plans, Investment Banks, Taxpayer Money, Financial Crisis, Financial TImes, Timothy Geithner, Shadow Banking, Taxes, Money, Economic Crisis, Obama Economy, Barack Obama, Paul A. Volcker, US Economy, Npr, Leonard Lopate, Subprime Mortgages, Obama Economic Plan, House of Rubin, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Banking, Banking Crisis, Banks, Jeff Madrick, Investment Banking, Business News
Saskia Sassen

The shadow banking system is not illegal or clandestine. It is in the open, but it has thrived on the opaqueness of the investment instruments, facilitated by their complexity.

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Will Obama's First Term Really Just be a Hybrid of Clinton III and GW Bush III?

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bill Clinton, Robert Rubin, Economic Policy, Gerald Ford, George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Neoliberalism, Timothy Geithner, Rubinomics, Paul Volcker, Lawrence Summers, Barack Obama, Laura D'Andrea Tyson, Larry Summers, Obama Treasury Secretary, Obama's Economic Team, Obama's Economic Plan, Larry Summers Treasury Secretary, Politics News
Steve Clemons

There is a strong chance that Lawrence Summers is going to be returned to the post of Secretary of the Treasury. Larry will have to prove to us that he is different and not the harbinger of Clinton Term III.

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Who's Your Economic Daddy?

Robert D. Atkinson, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Keynesian Economics, Robert Rubin, John McCain Economic Policy, Joseph Schumpeter, Economic Policy, Economy, Supply-Side Economics, Obama Economic Policy, Innovation, Technology, Rubinomics, R&D, Business News
Robert D. Atkinson, Ph.D.

Virtually all policy makers involved in economic policy subscribe to a particular economic doctrine, even if they may not be aware of which "camp" they are in.

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