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Sequestering the Friendly Skies
Here's one for the "We Told You So, Republicans" file. As it turns out, when you cut government spending arbitrarily and across-the-board it can affect things that your care about and rely on.
When Senators Vote Against Voting (And Reporters Don't Report It)
The New York Times got a key fact wrong today when it wrote that Mark Begich, the Democratic Senator from Alaska, “voted against a measure to expand background checks” for gun purchases. But we doubt that Begich will complain: The truth is much worse. Thanks to...
It's Hard Out Here For An Austerity Pimp
David Frum published an interesting letter from one of his readers the other day on the Reinhardt-Rogoff brouhaha. It provides a fascinating rundown of all the cracked economics that have dominated the debate for the past few years: The Reinhart- Rogoff paper that has...
Progressive Breakfast
Sequester In The Air Air travelers suffer major delays as sequester furloughs kick in. The Hill: "Airlines and organizations representing pilots put the blame for the delays squarely on the furloughs, while Republicans said the Federal Aviation Administration was...
Reform Leaders Explain Moves To End Corporate Tax Evasion
Corporations are shifting more of their money overseas to avoid the taxman in the U.S. and pursuing territorial tax legislation in Congress that would further enshrine that tax evasion into law.
Deficit Falling Even More Dramatically, Few Know It
Austerity is beginning to hit and the economy is slowing as a result. The most immediate effect is that flights are delayed, but unemployment checks are smaller and there are fewer things We the People do to make our lives and economy better -- also called "government...
Austerity's Curveballs
Since the austerity crowd won’t own up to a mistake, I will: I engaged in a kind of thought experiment last week, after we first learned that austerity economics is partly based on a spreadsheet error. I wondered, What if you were a government leader who sincerely...
Deficits Are Bad and the Sun Goes Around the Earth
Most of us accept that the earth goes around the sun. This is impressive since we can look up in the sky and see the sun going around the earth. We believe the opposite because we have been told about the research of astronomers over the centuries showing that what we...
Pivot Point's Maya Rockeymoore On Whether Obama's Policies Are Failing Us
A critique of the impact on African Americans of using the chained CPI to limit the cost-of-living adjustment on Social Security benefits and my criticism of President Obama's jobs proposals were among the highlights of a one-hour discussion Sunday led by Maya...
The Only CEO Pay Number that Really Matters
How much did America's top execs make last year? The scorekeepers don't all agree. But that won't matter if we keep our eyes on the most important figure of all: the pay gap between CEOs and workers.
