nytimes.com - 11/3/2008
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AS economists and policy advisers try to sort out where we are, how we got here and where we must go for both the short term and the longer term, we are surrounded by polarizing dichotomies: Fiscal recklessness versus fiscal rectitude; capital versus labor; free trade versus protectionism. The ...
nytimes.com - 11/2/2008
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nytimes.com —
As the world knows, America will elect a
new president on Tuesday. Barring unforeseen electoral circumstances, this
is George W. Bush's last Sunday to hold the presidential stage to himself. The Op-Ed editors asked six writers to reflect on what they ...
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Op-Ed Contributors - What I Will Miss About President Bush
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ThinkFast: November 3, 2008
Think Progress —
... Former Treasury Secretary Bob Rubin and EPI’s Jared Berstein write: “With the current financial crisis, our joint view is that for the short term, our economy needs a large fiscal stimulus that generates substantial economic demand.” ...
Progressive Unity on the Economy
Matthew Yglesias —
... the Blue Dog bloc in the House (and their analogues in the Senate) may have very different ideas from those espoused by congressional liberals. But one little-noted aspect of this divide is that on a more elevated level, on the level of policy analysts and opinion leaders, the different wings of the progressive camp are much closer together on economic policy than they were ten or fifteen years ago. We’ve seen Larry Summers calling for fiscal stimulus and now Bob Rubin joins with EPI’s Jared Bernstein to express a unified progressive vision on the ...
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