thinkprogress.org - 11/23/2008
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Economists on both the left and right broadly agree that the need for stimulative government spending is necessary to prevent a further collapse of the global economic system — just as the New Deal and the deficit spending of World War II restored the health of the global economy in the ...
openleft.com - 11/24/2008
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openleft.com —
As conservative economics collapses disastrously under the weight
of its many, many lies, it is only natural...
that the liars fall-back position is to take aim at the hope of actually cleaning up their mess. And hence the sudden rise of New Deal ...
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New Deal Denialism--Conservative Liars On The Rampage
julescrittenden.com - 11/26/2008
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julescrittenden.com —
Obama, acknowledging his debt of gratitude to George
Bush, will keep Robert Gates on as Secretary of...
Defense. Politico: Defense Secretary Robert Gates has agreed to stay on under President-elect Barack Obama, according to officials in both parties. ...
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Thanks, George
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The First New Deal Didn't Work But Libs Want Another One Anyway
Gateway Pundit —
Here's some advice for the libs... We're not in a depression. Barack Obama is not Lincoln... or FDR. ...Except Obama is still smoking. And, as George Will says, the New Deal Didn't Work: Hat Tip Think Progress. Yid with Lid reported: ...
I’ll Take a Double Helping of That “Failed” New Deal
Comments from Left Field —
... George Will is still carping about how the “first New Deal” didn’t work [emphasis in original]: ...
The New Deal
Political Animal —
... also recently went after the New Deal. Yesterday, on ABC, George Will summarized the conservative line nicely: "Before we go into a new New Deal, can we just acknowledge that the first New Deal didn't work?" Actually, no, we can't. Paul Krugman ...
Are Progressives Out of Ideas?
The Next Right —
... revival that underpinned GOP victories in 1980 and 1994.
The fact that this argument gets made internally shows that conservatives care more about ideas even when they (supposedly) don't have any than Democrats do when they are ascendant and (supposedly) chock full of them.
Witness my daily e-mail from the Center for American Progress: The New New Deal.
We are now engaged in a full-on debate over the return of nearly eight decades old economic policy, with George Will and Tyler Cowen weighing in on one side of the new New Deal debate and ...
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The New Deal
washingtonmonthly.com 11/24/2008 — THE NEW DEAL.... A few days ago, Tyler Cowen had an op-ed piece in the New York Times questioning the efficacy of FDR's New Deal policies in addressing the Great Depression. The Heritage Foundation also recently went after the New...
Even George Will
washingtonmonthly.com 12/7/2008 — EVEN GEORGE WILL.... We've past the point at which this can reasonably be described as foolish. Now, conservative apoplexy about the non-existent drive to reinstate the "Fairness Doctrine," is just annoying. George Will, who one might expect to know ...
Paul Krugman Schools George Will On The Great Depression
huffingtonpost.com 11/30/2008 — On ABC's This Week, conservative pundit George Will took up the case against Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, arguing that it sent confusing signals to capitalists (who apparently might otherwise have pursued lucrative deals in the 1930s market place) ...
Allow me to say something...
rising-hegemon.blogspot.com 12/22/2008 — I didn't think I'd ever say. Fuck you, Center for American Progress! You know, I've been writing for Firedoglake for about 13 or 14 months and they have every right to edit me, or delete a post or what have you. But no one ever has, in fact, I've ...
Krugman: US Auto Industry To Disappear--What Does This Mean???
openleft.com 12/8/2008 — AP is reporting (h/t ObscureName in a Quick Hits comment):
Krugman: US auto industry will probably disappear
By MALIN RISING - 5 hours ago
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - Nobel economics prize winner Paul Krugman said Sunday that the beleaguered U.S. ...
Krugman Worried Obama Doesn't Have 'Enough Stuff To Spend On'
newsbusters.org 12/15/2008 — As Americans across the fruited plain worry about their jobs and how they're going to make ends meet during the current recession, Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman showed Sunday morning just how separated from reality and the common man he actually is. ...
Exploding Heads Deathmatch: There Can Be Only One
crookedtimber.org 10/16/2008 — Many thanks to the CT readers who’ve come up with examples of wingnuts’ heads exploding as a result of Paul Krugman’s Nobel prize. Now, it’s decision time. I’ve narrowed the field down to the five most impressive ...
Crooked Timber Is Having a Contest!
delong.typepad.com 10/14/2008 — Henry Farrell writes:
The Name of This Band is Exploding Heads : As Kieran notes in comments below, the comments thread to Tyler Cowen’s (perfectly reasonable) Krugman post is pretty hilarious. But given Krugman’s place of pride in ...
A Stimulus for Tomorrow, part 2
obsidianwings.blogs.com 1/28/2009 — by von
The largest part of the proposed stimulus is appropriations -- aka, government spending. But, as noted below , this part of the stimulus isn't much of a stimulus. It can't have nearly as much of a stimulus effect as the other two parts ...
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