Trigger Mechanisms To Avoid the Fiscal Cliff? You’re Kidding, Right?
Robert Reich has been writing a series on “the Grand Bargain” and the “fiscal cliff.” In this post, I’ll do a commentary on his “The President’s Opening Bid on a Grand Bargain (II): Put a Trigger...
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Stop Using Obama for America Against the People!
Obama for America, the campaign apparatus with the very large e-mailing list and great segmentation techniques that exploited Romney’s weaknesses to help the President to eke out (yes, I know the...
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Let’s Defend Social Security and Other Entitlements With the Second Bill Of...
The favorite defense of Social Security by progressives harkens back to Franklin Roosevelt <a who famously said: ”I guess you’re right on the economics. They are politics all the way through. We...
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More Austerity Advice From the Very Rich: Buffett On Deficits!
Warren Buffett Warren Buffett’s recent op-ed in the New York Times is making a stir because it calls for a minimum tax on high incomes above $One million annually. But I was much more interested in...
View ArticleThe Trillion Dollar Coin Is A Conservative Meme
The Trillion Dollar Coin (TDC) is, first, an oversimplified meme, because there’s not one TDC solution, but lots of Platinum Coin Seigniorage (PCS) variations on that idea with differing implications...
View ArticleNew MSM Trillion Dollar Coin Wave Misses the Big Story: Pethokoukis and...
In this post I said I would blog about the likely expected relationship between the different PCS options and inflation using the framework laid out by Scott Fullwiler! But, after reconsidering, I...
View ArticleNew MSM Trillion Dollar Coin Wave Misses the Big Story: Bradford and Plumer
In my last three posts, I’ve critiqued the new wave of mainstream posts and commentary on Platinum Coin Seigniorage (PCS) on my way to making the case that the MSM are missing “the big story” about...
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New MSM Trillion Dollar Coin Wave: Here’s The Big Story
The one thing that jumps out at you when reading the mainstream posts of the past week-and-a-half bringing Platinum Coin Seigniorage (PCS) into the forefront of attention again, for the first time...
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Richard Eskow Asks: Which Side Are You On?
Education Social Security Richard Eskow of the Center for the American Future, posted a very good one a couple of days ago. He used the old union meme “which side are you on” to beat up the President...
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Peterson Thinks We Need Austerity While He Lives It Up!
Pete Peterson’s long-term fiscal problem is a figment of his lack of imaginationThe Peterson Foundation reacted to the President’s budget document with a report repeating its usual whining about the...
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