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July 12, 2024
Economic Policy And SCOTUS
The media needs to start getting wise to the court’s role in shaping the economy.
June 26, 2024 | The Sling
Ken Rogoff Remains Pervasive Even Though His Pro-Austerity Paper Was Debunked Over Ten Years Ago
Rogoff’s legacy is one of creating cover for conservative governments to prematurely abandon fiscal stimulus, leaving millions of people out of work. What rocketed “Growth in a Time of Debt” to its high status among economists was how clear and dramatic it found the risk of high debt to be. That was proven to be bunk. But it was deeply rooted in the ethos of the austerity movement, so much so that the hawks at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget felt the need to defend their own position in the wake of the R&R controversy. Why is Rogoff still in reporters’ rolodexes?
June 14, 2024
Emma Marsano Dylan Gyauch-Lewis
Hackwatch Climate and EnvironmentCorporate CrackdownMedia Accountability
The Mainstream Media Keeps Burying the True Cost of Fossil Fuels
What would it take for them to consistently name and shame the corporate villains responsible for catastrophic climate change?
May 31, 2024
Do As I Say, Not As I Do
Larry Summers wants to excise politics from Harvard’s campus. May as well start with the man in the mirror.
May 24, 2024 | The American Prospect
Mr. Biden, Tear Down This Debt Ceiling!
The debt ceiling reprieve reached last year is quickly running its course. We need to start the work to keep it from derailing Democratic priorities again.
May 10, 2024
Misinformation Miscues
It’s certainly true that liberals can believe things that are actually incorrect, but the centrality of criticizing the left detracts from the core part of the argument.
April 17, 2024 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter
The FAA and Flights of Financial Folly
Boeing Won’t Self Regulate; We Can’t Keep Trusting Them To
April 12, 2024
Let's Be Direct (File)
As the Taxman Cometh, The IRS’ Enemies Throw Everything And The Kitchen Sink
March 29, 2024
Furman’s Frustration
He’s Mad That Robert Rubin’s Gang No Longer Reigns Supreme
March 22, 2024 | The American Prospect
The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget’s Bad-Faith Criticism of Biden’s Budget Proposal
The organization that claims to champion deficit reduction actually wants to cut your Social Security.
March 18, 2024
Out of Sight, Out of Mind, Out of Touch
A quick roundup of some pundits striking out from their ivory towers to completely and utterly miss the point.
March 05, 2024 | The Sling
The Proposed Merger of Capital One and Discover Deserves Rigorous Scrutiny
Last month, Capital One announced that it plans to purchase Discover in a deal worth $35.3 billion. For their campaign to secure regulatory approval, Capital One is trying to act like a benevolent pro-consumer company that will use economies of scale to lower interest rates and ramp up competition with Visa and Mastercard. But that’s probably baloney.
March 01, 2024
In Leaping to Defend Wendy’s, This WaPo Column Tells A Whopper
Catherine Rampell’s crazy defense of Wendy’s surge pricing.