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Pelosi, White House Begin To Lay Out Job Creation Options
On a conference call this morning, Nancy Pelosi laid out a variety of strategies for job creation, and rejected the conventional wisdom that deficit reduction would be bigger goal at this time, saying,...
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Bernstein’s Skedaddle Highlights Progressive/Administration Divide
A couple people I’ve talked to at the America’s Future Now conference were as stunned as I was by White House designated progressive Jared Bernstein walking out Tuesday before the end of his own panel...
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White House Digs In on Allowing High-End Tax Cuts to Expire
Mark Zandi made the case in the New York Times today for an extension of all of the Bush tax cuts and a slow phase-out of the ones for the wealthiest Americans, on the premise that high-income earners...
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Jared Bernstein: The Latest Casualty of Deficit Fever
The Wall Street Journal scoops that Jared Bernstein, Joe Biden’s chief economist and the one person on the economic team seen as reliably liberal, will leave the White House soon. Mr. Bernstein, a...
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Jared Bernstein Lets Slip Interesting Info About WH Economic Views
Paul Krugman had a good column today on how America needed to end its “learned helplessness” on the jobs crisis. He cited multiple options of things the government could do right now to create jobs,...
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Repatriation Tax Holiday for Businesses Didn’t Work Last Time to Create Jobs
It’s a bit of genius that the New York Times delivers their story about businesses pushing for a repatriation tax holiday under the series headline “But Nobody Pays That.” Because that four-word title...
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Jared Bernstein on Housing: Get Fannie and Freddie In the Game
One of the stimulus ideas that Matt Stoller puts forward in his op-ed for Politico today is to turn Fannie and Freddie loose: One, the solution most cited now, is to use the government’s control of...
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Obama Administration Comes Back to Liberal Wonks for Job Creation Ideas
The White House wants you to believe that the American Jobs Act is loaded up with bipartisan solutions once preferred by Republicans. And to some extent, that’s true. But there are a number of Easter...
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We’ve Already Cut Spending By Almost All of the Bowles-Simpson Targets
Jared Bernstein of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has an important piece that reinforces something I’ve been saying for a long time. Contrary to the opinion of Michael Grunwald that there...
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