by Bill Moyers | Jan 14, 2013 | Blog
Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman argues that saving money is not the path to economic recovery. Instead, he says, we should put aside our excessive focus on the deficit, try to overcome political recalcitrance, and spend money to...
by Richard Eskow | Jan 14, 2013 | Blog
By all accounts Aaron Swartz was brilliant, gifted, idealistic ... and fragile. Too bad he wasn't "too big to fail." I never met Aaron, but I know a lot of people who knew him well. (We did "converse" as members of the same online discussion group.) I learned about...
by Digby | Jan 14, 2013 | The Sequester
Krugman says that he gets phone calls: The White House insists that it is absolutely, positively not going to cave or indeed even negotiate over the debt ceiling — that it rejected the coin option as a gesture of strength, as a way to put the onus for avoiding default...
by Liz Rose | Jan 14, 2013 | Blog
Sometimes when I get a bill I don’t feel like paying it. But I do, because I’m a responsible adult. If I don’t pay my bills, I get in trouble. It’s true for a family and for a government. Republicans in Congress are creating another manufactured default crisis....
by Dave Johnson | Jan 14, 2013 | Blog
A number of the DC elites are talking about changing the way Social Security checks are adjusted for inflation. This is a great idea, as long as any such adjustment measures the things the elderly actually spend money on. Let’s do it! Let's change the way we adjust...
