Saturday, August 6, 2011

S&P Downgrades U.S. Debt

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As you have probably heard by now, Standard and Poor's has downgraded U.S. debt one notch from AAA to AA+ with a negative outlook. This...
Friday, August 5, 2011

Coming Attraction: The Battle Against Job Piracy in Canada

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I just got word that my article, “Regulating Investment Attraction: Canada's Code of Conduct on Incentives in a Comparative Context,” wi...
Thursday, August 4, 2011

Jobs falling, income dropping, according to 2009 tax data

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David Cay Johnston (h/t Mark Thoma) has a new column up on the results of the latest income tax data (2009). With the economy back at stall...
Wednesday, August 3, 2011

How Bad Was the Debt Deal for the Middle Class?

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John Boehner says he got 98% of everything he wanted . That's a bad sign. More concretely, the Economic Policy Institute estimated that ...
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Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Good Stuff from Yglesias and the Center for American Progress

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Matt Yglesias has a good post up on how the debt ceiling debate has obscured the fact that the big driver of increased federal expenditures ...
Monday, August 1, 2011

Where the US Overspends on Health Care

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Dylan Matthews at Ezra Klein's blog put up a nice char t showing where the US spends its health care dollars compared to other rich cou...
Sunday, July 31, 2011

It's Gotten to Where I Can't Turn on the TV

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Or the radio, or look at news on the Internet. The reason, of course, is the debt ceiling “negotiations.” I think Calculated Risk is corre...
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