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• The Great Depression–Videos

  
  Pronk Palisades — Authority: 432
  Milton Friedman Debunking Myth Of The Great Depression part 1 Milton Friedman Debunking Myth Of The Great Depression part 2 Milton Friedman Debunking Myth Of The Great Depression part 3 1929 – The Great Wall Street Crash & Depression: Part 1 of 6 1929 – The Great Wall Street ...
  10 hours ago

• PPC Citizen Journalists Query Ed Perlmutter’s Office on Pelosi Care

  
  Mount Virtus — Authority: 518
  So yes, my Representative Ed Perlmutter voted for the costly, restrictive monstrosity known as Pelosi Care (HR 3962). But how does he justify his positions? How did his office respond to last week’s House Call on Congress rally? And how were citizen-journalists from the People’s Press Collective received when they ...
  12 hours ago

• Economist Mom Hopes That the Obama Administration Is Thinking Sensibly About the Medium Run Deficit

  
  J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles — Authority: 727
  Even though they are not yet talking sensibly--like about the need for sticking to PAYGO over the medium run. Economist Mom: Peter Orszag on the Tough Specifics of Deficit Reduction : The President’s budget director, Peter Orszag, was on NPR’s Morning Edition on Wednesday morning.  He talked about the ...
  13 hours ago

• Macroeconomic Scholasticism

  
  J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles — Authority: 727
  Brother Joseph Gagnon makes a few points: The Liquidity Trap Does Not Make Monetary Policy Ineffective : With short-term risk-free interest rates essentially at zero in the major developed economies, conventional monetary policy is in a liquidity trap. As a number of commentators have observed, printing ...
  13 hours ago

• Associated Press Get’s Obama 2011 Budget Story Wrong

  
  Wall Street Pit — Authority: 641
  This Associated Press story is creating a lot of unnecessary buzz in Washington.  In fact, the coverage may well be a total overreaction to a complete nonstory.As reported by the AP, Office of Management and Budget Director Peter Orzag has told federal agencies and departments to prepare two...
  15 hours ago

• Associated Press Gets Obama 2011 Budget Story Wrong

  
  Capital Gains and Games — Authority: 684
  This Associated Press story is creating a lot of unnecessary buzz in Washington.  In fact, the coverage may well be a total overreaction to a complete nonstory. As reported by the AP, Office of Management and Budget Director Peter Orzag has told federal agencies and departments to prepare two possible fiscal ...
  16 hours ago

• The Cretinism of Parliaments, U.S. Congress Class...

  
  J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles — Authority: 727
  In the short term, we dont have a deficit problem: as long as unemployment remains highly elevated--certainly as long as the unemployment rate stays above 7%--and as long as interest rates on U.S. Treasuries stay low a bigger federal deficit is a feature not a bug: our short-term deficit problem (and the short term ...
  17 hours ago

• To the point of Keynesianism

  
  The Information Paradox — Authority: 514
  continuum: To your point, driftwood-nu, (and this is a cursory understanding of macroeconomic...
  21 hours ago

• How About A Bit Of Irony?

  
  Info Ink — Authority: 135
  There are times when the analysis of politics or the economy has its good days….today is one of those days…… The GOP and other conservs have tried to turn the health debate into a debate on abortion, but does that accomplish?  And then is the oops factor….(will explain later) To pass the bill in the House ...
  22 hours ago

• Marginal Tax Rates, Again, by Arnold Kling

  
  EconLog — Authority: 699
  A reader recommends a paper by Laurence J. Kotlikoff and David Rapson . The reader views this paper as contradicting the article I linked to earlier . Kotlikoff and Rapson report marginal tax rates of closer to 40 percent than 100 percent for people in the lower income ranges. One difference is that Kotlikoff and ...
  23 hours ago

• fiscal policy or economic development

  
  Cybereconomics — Authority: 119
  Found here: http://www.zerohedge.com/article/other-side-chinas-8-gdp-growth-ghost-cities http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0h7V3Twb-Qk Does it illustrate the problems of fiscal policy or of economic development? (It is a bit unsettling that Al Jazeera has better youtube clips on the world economy than any of the ...
  1 day ago

• Glenn Beck Pulls Obama’s Mask Off–Unemployment, Spending, Taxes, Deficits, Debt and Inflation–Up, Up and Away–Age of Obama–Let The Sunshine In!

  
  Pronk Palisades — Authority: 432
  Up Up and Away – Hot air Balloons Glenn Beck Show – Nov 12, 2009 – Pt 1 of 5 Glenn Beck Show – Nov 12, 2009 – Pt 2 of 5 Glenn Beck Show – Nov 12, 2009 – Pt 3 of 5 The 5th Dimension – Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In 5th Dimension – Aquarius & Let the sunshine ...
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• New Report Aims To Improve DC TANF Program

  
  Poverty & Policy — Authority: 412
  The DC Fiscal Policy Institute and So Others Might Eat have issued a pioneering report on the Districts TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) program. The report pioneers in going beyond the usual bounds of advocacy to delve into problems with the way the program is administered. It also pioneers in the way ...
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• Lou Dobbs Leaves CNN–Moves To Fox News?–Roger Ailes Please Tell Us It Is True!

  
  Pronk Palisades — Authority: 432
   Lou Dobbs Leaving CNN – Right Now! Lou Dobbs: “This will be my last broadcast here on CNN, where I’ve worked for most of the past 30 years, and where I have many friends and colleagues whom I admire deeply and respect greatly. I’m the last of the original anchors here on CNN and I’m proud to ...
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• Please Welcome the Two Newest Rocky Mountain Alliance Bloggers

  
  Mount Virtus — Authority: 518
  For the first time in quite awhile, the Rocky Mountain Alliance has started to grow again. We have two new members who represent excellent additions. I invite you to check them out and add them to your regular blog reading (if you haven’t already): The Business Word by Don Johnson has become a must-read for ...
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• Personal Thought On Health Reform

  
  Info Ink — Authority: 135
  We have all heard the figures being thrown around about the uninsured people in the US…there maybe a difference in the total number, but NO one can argue that the system is sound….well, with the exception of anyone making profit off the existing one…..and I have heard some on the Right saying that there is a ...
  2 days ago

• "Obama has Lost his Way on Jobs"

  
  Economist's View — Authority: 699
  Jeff Sachs: Obama has lost his way on jobs, by Jeffrey Sachs, Commentary, Financial Times : ...The Obama administration’s stimulus policies are not well-targeted. The Republican alternatives are even worse. Both sides are missing the key fact: the US economy needs structural change that requires a new set of ...
  2 days ago

• A Proposal to Save Jobs, by Arnold Kling

  
  EconLog — Authority: 699
  A Wall Street Journal blog writes State and local governments in the U.S. may be forced to cut 900,000 jobs next year without additional help from the federal government, according to a report released by a prominent liberal think tank Wednesday. What is 900,000 as a percentage of total state and local ...
  2 days ago

• Politics and the Federal Deficit Mess

  
  J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles — Authority: 727
  David Wessel reports: The Federal Deficit Mess in a Single Sentence : Douglas Elmendorf, the director of the Congressional Budget Office, gave a speech the other day at the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management. In it, he nicely summarized the federal government’s long-term fiscal problem in one ...
  2 days ago

• Talking to Former GOP Guv Candidate Josh Penry on Decision to Drop Out

  
  Mount Virtus — Authority: 518
  This morning I had the opportunity to follow up on this week’s Colorado political bombshell with the man at the center of the storm: state senate minority leader Josh Penry , of whom word leaked Monday that he had decided to withdraw from the Republican primary campaign for governor. As a personal supporter of ...
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