by Digby | Nov 14, 2012 | Blog
You know that deficit that's killing us? The one we're going to fix by "asking the rich to pay a little bit more" and cutting benefits for everyone else? What if the scam is even worse than we thought? Dean Baker spills some very inconvenient beans: [T]he big stick...
by Terrance Heath | Nov 14, 2012 | Blog
I'm no doctor, but defeated Republican VP candidate Paul Ryan may still be too "shell-shocked" to resume his role as the right's "idea man," if his latest addition to the growing list of GOP excuses for their stunning election day losses is any indication. Ryan say...
by Stan Collender | Nov 14, 2012 | Blog
Originally posted at Capital Gains and Games. Last week’s election results did not change my opinion that we’re more likely to go over the fiscal cliff than to avoid it. Yes, I heard the less defiant tone Speaker John A. Boehner, R-Ohio, has used to talk about the...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Nov 14, 2012 | Blog, Economy
The fight to head off a so-called "grand bargain" that would end up being a grand swindle of economic recovery and opportunity for working-class Americans gets kicked up another notch today when a group of 350 prominent economists and experts release a statement...
by Richard Eskow | Nov 14, 2012 | Blog
They're dashing through the corridors of power in Washington with appropriately grim expressions this week. Congressional leaders are talking about the upcoming 'fiscal cliff,' which journalists are dutifully describing as a "looming crisis." In fact, if you do a...
by Richard Eskow | Nov 14, 2012 | Blog
They're dashing through the corridors of power in Washington with appropriately grim expressions this week. Congressional leaders are talking about the upcoming 'fiscal cliff,' which journalists are dutifully describing as a "looming crisis." In fact, if you do a...
