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Budget Report Proves Krugman Right, Coulter Says ‘Screw You’ to Obama, and More

A look at the day’s political happenings, including a Republican flip-flop on immigration reform and Chris Christie pokes fun at himself on “The Late Show with David Letterman.”

Posted on Feb 5, 2013 READ MORE

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Fiscal Cliff Deal Would Add Trillions to Deficit

Instead of deficit reduction, it appears the fiscal cliff deal that was passed in the Senate early Tuesday morning would only add to the federal government’s budget problems.

Posted on Jan 1, 2013 READ MORE

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Ryan’s Budget Figures Don’t Add Up

Certain media pundits’ hearts are aflutter over how honest, intellectual and responsible GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan supposedly is. But not economics professor Bill Black, who shows that Ryan’s “Tinker Bell” budget proposal uses numbers that have nothing to do with the economy to achieve fiscal balance in the next few decades.

Posted on Aug 17, 2012 READ MORE

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Dismal Reports From Two U.S. Inequality Studies

The 1 percenters targeted by those leading the Wall Street occupation had a profitable run between 1979 and 2007. Their average after-tax income grew 275 percent in that period, while income for the 60 percent of the population in the middle of the earning scale grew by just under 40 percent. (more)

Posted on Oct 29, 2011 READ MORE | 4 COMMENTS

Have and Have-Not Nation

By Eugene Robinson —

The hard-right conservatives who dominate the Republican Party claim to despise the redistribution of wealth, but secretly they love it—as long as the process involves depriving the poor and middle class to benefit the rich, not the other way around.

Posted on Oct 27, 2011 READ MORE | 21 COMMENTS

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Thirty Years of Unleashed Greed

By Robert Scheer —

It is class warfare. But it was begun not by the tear-gassed, rain-soaked protesters asserting their constitutionally guaranteed right of peaceful assembly but rather the financial overlords who control all of the major levers of power in what passes for our democracy.

Posted on Oct 26, 2011 READ MORE | 191 COMMENTS

Score One for Skepticism

By Ruth Marcus —

Democrats are delighted with the Congressional Budget Office’s analysis of their health care bill, but the Republicans have good reason to be skeptical.