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Taxes then and now
THEN..."Well before the [civil] war, the wealthy of America had begun holding a dramatically large portion of the nation's wealth. According to the economic historian Lee Soltow, 37 percent of the...
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Signs of the crimes
Via TPM Muckraker, Arlen Specter's bill "regulating" the use of presidential signing statements appended to signed legislation.So if this bill ends up passing and Bush signs it, what would his signing...
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Social Security Meta-Archive: 2006
[Part of The Earth-Based Initiative: Social Security Meta-Archive]Social Security Meta-Archive: 20051/3TIME TO PRIVATIZE SOCIAL SECURITYEconomist Dean Baker writing at MaxSpeak: How would privatizing...
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Vial Mendacity
ob·fus·cate ( P ) Pronunciation Key (bf-skt, b-fskt)tr.v. ob·fus·cat·ed, ob·fus·cat·ing, ob·fus·cates1. To make so confused or opaque as to be difficult to perceive or understand: “A great effort was...
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Alicia Munnell on Social Security research
From her December 2000 survey:Not only do studies show conflicting conclusions or different interpretations of existing information, but the sheer weight of the evidence makes it difficult to move. Any...
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Sheri Berman seminar at Crooked Timber
Via Brad DeLong, a virtual seminar on Sheri Berman's book, The Primacy of Politics: Social Democracy and the Making of Europe’s Twentieth Century over at Crooked Timber.
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pop prescience
Then you have the nerve to tell me you think that as a mother I'm not fit.Well, this is just a little Peyton Place and you're all Harper Valley hypocritesHarper Valley PTA[songwriter Tom T. Hall for...
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What do Bush and Iraq have in common?
They both need interventions.Josh Marshall:...There's a very bleak irony here that's worth noting. Because of the unipolar world we now live in, when anarchy and genocide break out in the world, only...
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Who Was Milton Friedman?
Mark Thoma links, as Paul Krugman asks (and answers) in The New York Review of Each Other's Books:What's odd about Friedman's absolutism on the virtues of markets and the vices of government is that in...
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Social Security, in Ecolanguage
Frequent econoblog commenter Lee Arnold's presentation is up on YouTube:
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Shifting balances of terror
Daniel Drezner reports he is off to a conference entitled "Nuclear Weapons in a New Century: Facing the Emerging Challenges." Reminds me of the classic Harvard (or was it National?)Lampoon parody of...
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Those silly Europeans
Robert Kagan, Of Paradise and Power, 2003: American policymakers have found it hard to believe, but leading officials and politicians have worried more about how the United States might handle or...
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Federal Budget Archive 1980 - 2000
Online ResourcesThe BudgetArchive maintained by The Atlantic Online.Debate Chronology1991The Roots of the Public Sector Fiscal Crisis [PDF]A paper by Max Sawicky of the labor-funded Economic Policy...
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Federal Budget Archive 2000 - 2020
Debate Chronology200010/1A Citizen’s Guide to the Federal BudgetFor 2001.20013/1Thinking About a New EconomyEconomist Timothy Taylor subjects “New Economy” hype to some basic knowledge of productivity...
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Secular Non-Insularity
A year ago January, I linked to an extract from Garry Wills' 1990 book Under God accusing mid-twentieth century American historians Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. and Henry Steele Commager of ignorance of...
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Iraq Backstory: Josh Marshall on the CIA vs. Chalabi
From an August 2003 Talking Points Memo post :Bob Drogin article in Thursday's Los Angeles Times put me in the mind of something I came across a year and a half ago when I was researching my first long...
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The Philadelphia Mississippi Experiment
In the ongoing TPMCafe discussion of Paul Krugman's new book The Conscience of a Liberal, Bruce Bartlett claims Krugman is calling Reagan a crypto-racist for his 1980 call for states rights in the...
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The Divider
Via Paul Krugman, veteran political journalist Tom Edsall has the scoop on Rudy Giuliani's readying the race card as the G.O.P. continues its ongoing Philadelphia Mississippi Experiment to cling to...
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Another Giant Leap...
Keith Olbermann calls Obama's election the social and political equivalent of a moon shot...
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