By Tim Price, originally published on Next New Deal Click here to receive the Daily Digest via e-mail. Why do people hate deficits? (WaPo) Suggesting America doesn’t need to balance its budget strikes a lot of people like saying bald eagle should be the main course at the next state dinner, but as Dylan Matthews… Read more »
Posts Tagged: deficit
Maher And Bernie Sanders Explode At GOP Panelists Over Obama’s Economy: Where Were Deficit Hawks Under Bush?
On Bill Maher‘s show tonight, Senator Bernie Sanders and Wall Street Journal columnist Steve Moore got into a number of heated back-and-forths over the state of the economy, which side is to blame for the crisis the country is in, and what the U.S. needs to do about greenhouse gases. At one point during an… Read more »
Robert Z. Lawrence: ‘A really healthy U.S. economy will have a bigger trade deficit.’
Robert Z. Lawrence is Albert L. Williams Professor of International Trade and Investment at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. He served on President Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisers from 1999 to 2001, and writes frequently on issues surrounding globalization and trade policy. His latest book, coauthored with the University of Cape Town’s Lawrence Edwards, is… Read more »
Iraq and lessons for the ‘war on the deficit’
The Ken Pollack of the ‘war on the deficit,’ Jeffrey Sachs. In this week of Iraq Debacle mea culpas, I was most struck by the entry submitted by Ezra Klein. Not because it shed any new light, but rather for the excuse he uses for why he supported the Iraq Debacle (to be clear, I’m… Read more »