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The Divides are smaller than you think
The Agonist - thoughtful, global, timely — ... Bob Rubin is known a free trading Wall Street deficit fighter, Jared Bernstein is an economist at the EPI, and known for his work on the wage squeeze, aka the stagnation tax. They've authored an Op-Ed together, which is clearly aimed, not only at the incoming administration, but at the Democratic movement, not just party, as a whole. The message is in favor of a genuine centrism, rather than false choices and false capitulationism. ...

Jonathan Tasini: We Have Plenty Of Money. The Rich Are Killing Us
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... While our country is disintegrating, the rich are hiding. They are hiding behind their lobbyists and the political leaders they helped elect. They are hiding behind a decades-long ideology that paralyzes the political system from being serious about what the rich should pay. A recent op-ed by Robert Rubin (a man who helped create the financial mess we are in) and Jared Bernstein, a progressive economist, said this: ...

Jonathan Tasini: We Have Plenty Of Money -- The Rich Are Killing Us
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... While our country is disintegrating, the rich are hiding. They are hiding behind their lobbyists and the political leaders they helped elect. They are hiding behind a decades-long ideology that paralyzes the political system from being serious about what the rich should pay. A recent op-ed by Robert Rubin (a man who helped create the financial mess we are in) and Jared Bernstein, a progressive economist, said this: ...

Robert Kuttner: Pesident Obama Wants You to Join the Union
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... The task force itself will be a welcome counterweight to the outsized influence of Wall Street inside the Obama administration. Several weeks ago, Jared Bernstein, then a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, wrote a joint op-ed piece for the New York Timeswith Robert Rubin pointing out where they agreed. One issue where they pointedly disagreed was on the Employee Free Choice Act, which Rubin explicitly refused to endorse. The Biden operation now looks to be the go-to place for progressives seeing access to Obama's priorities. The Task Force will serve as ...

Barack Obama and the New Center-Left
Ross Douthat — ... between the Democratic Party's moderate and liberal factions. On health care, the environment, income inequality and other fronts, figures like Summers are closer to their erstwhile lefty antagonists than they used to be, sharing common ground even when they don't have ...

Barack Obama and the New Center-Left
The Atlantic Politics Channel — ... between the Democratic Party's moderate and liberal factions. On health care, the environment, income inequality and other fronts, figures like Summers are closer to their erstwhile lefty antagonists than they used to be, sharing common ground even when they don't have ...