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Trying to make sense of the Texas disaster. At least so far, it seems that there are no obvious villains — except the usual suspects on the right trying to
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So is the Biden plan too big? We need to be clear about what it's for. IT'S NOT STIMULUS. This isn't at all like the ARRA, which was all about
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The jobs report and the Biden plan: the plan is mainly NOT ABOUT STIMULUS: It's disaster relief to get us through the pandemic. It will, however, have some stimulative effect.
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Lots of people are dunking on Larry Summers today, and in my view rightly so; this piece by Jordan Weissman seems especially on point. Yes, a rescue package this size
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So Rs want Biden to drastically scale back economic relief in the name of bipartisanship. Their offer is insultingly inadequate, and their claims that using reconciliation would "poison the well"
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Playing my tiny violin. But this stuff is more important than many may realize. To understand why, you have to understand that the foot soldiers of the right come in
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A few thoughts on Janet Yellen as Treasury secretary. Obviously she brings some firsts to the role — the first woman and aside from the brief role of Larry Summers,
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I've noticed a theme in some of my recent hate mail: angry complaints that in saying that almost all elected Republicans are corrupt and/or clueless, I'm engaging in a sin
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Yes! America offers far less aid to families with children than other advanced countries, yet there's strong evidence that such aid has big long-term benefits 1/https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/01/22/biden-childtaxcredit-st
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So, what happened to the insurrection? Maybe I'm jinxing it, but the wave of violence many expected didn't materialize before or on Inauguration Day; there were hardly any demonstrators. Where
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Still getting anxious mail from people who worry about how America will pay down its debt. Folks, we don't have to pay it down. Here's what happened after WWII: 1/
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Gonna do a brief (?) wonkish thread on debt sustainability, and why we shouldn't worry about it. Start with the reason many people think it's terrible: they imagine that debt
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