Tonight’s GOP Convention keynoter is New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, a conservative many in the Republican Party had hoped would run for president instead of Mitt Romney. Fox News and other conservative media hype Christie’s budget-cutting Jersey’s budget back to…
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Supercommittee Fails
by Dan Chmielewski • • 3 Comments
Reaction to the Supercommittee’s failure to reach agreement on spending cuts and revenue generation are hitting the mainstream media and the political blogs. From the New York Times: Speaking an hour after the talks failed, President Obama promised to veto…
A call for a New Stimulus
by Dan Chmielewski • • 4 Comments
The Los Angeles Times carried a page one editorial from writer Michael Hiltzik today in which the writer called for a new stimulus program to rescue the economy. NY Times columnist and Princetron economics professor Paul Krugman’s crticism of the…
A Debt Ceiling Vote Paid for on a Backs of Working Families
by Dan Chmielewski • • 13 Comments
I’m not happy with the compromise struck between the President, the Senate and the House on the drastic spending cuts in exchange for raising the debt ceiling. Make no mistake, the spending cuts will hurt the poorest and middle class the…
Paul Krugman: Most Libertarians Fail to Defend Liberty
by Dan Chmielewski • • 2 Comments
I’m looking forward to the comments our Libertarian friends will have to this New York Times blog post by Paul Krugman. I’m sure there will be whining and complaining, and usually from the same people so quick to ill-define…
The Failure of Supply Side Economics
by Dan Chmielewski • • 2 Comments
The Register’s Brian Calle and John Seiler have both weighed in on our repsonse post about the failure of Reaganomics, better described as “supply side economics” citing the 40th president’s view that placing more money in the hands of Americans…
Krugman nails Republicans on Healthcare Reform
by Dan Chmielewski • • 1 Comment
Nobel prize winning econmist, Princeton professor and NT Times columnist Paul Krugman has a column in the nation’s newspaper of record that actually savages Republicans for their positions on healthcare reform. In a word, the Republican plan is…nothing. From the…
