The Facts Are In And Paul Ryan Is Wrong -- Daily Intelligencer

The Facts Are In: Paul Ryan Is Wrong

Changes in the way we think about the world are not "news" in the classic sense -- they occur gradually, without discrete events to signal them. But they matter. Two such developments have come together recently, both reported in the New York Times. The first is the collapse of intellectual support for the notion that immediate austerity can boost economic growth. The second is a growing consensus that health-care-cost inflation is slowing for deep structural reasons, rather than having undergone a mere temporary dip from the recession. These trends have something in common: They blow to smithereens the intellectual foundations of the Obama-era Republican policy agenda.

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