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Politics / economic policy, Federal deficit, fiscal cliff, Simpson-Bowles /

Ignorance is Bliss

December 6, 2012

With economics and politics always closely intertwined one way of understanding how policy making for the economy will play out is to take the political temperature. At the moment that means taking a look at the state of the Republican Party as it tries to figure out how to move forward. Assuming, that is, that […]

Economics / austerity, defense spending, economic policy, entitlements, fiscal cliff, government spending, medicare, Obama, Republicans, Social Security /

Cliff Walking

December 4, 2012

This is really irksome. For most of this phony war, as the key players strut their stuff for public eyes but not for serious negotiation, the Republicans have been oddly coy about what their plan would be. They released no details, gave no hints, and merely repeated their continuing objection to the horror of a […]

Economics / austerity, business investment, consumption, demand, economic policy, fiscal cliff, inventories, plutocracy, real estate, trade, unemployment /

Update On The Economy

November 29, 2012

It’s been a long break occasioned by a string of visitors. What happened in the interim? Not a whole lot. Washington is now deeply immersed in the three ring circus known as the fiscal cliff, an event, we are told, so horrendous that we all ought to be prepared to sacrifice our preconceived notions of […]