delong.typepad.com - 2/17/2009
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Bruce Bartlett criticizes the internet's second-worst Goldberg:
Stimulus in the House - Bruce Bartlett - The Corner on National Review Online : The problem with Jonah’s argument is that congressional Republicans were never really willing to concede the principle that stimulus was ...
corner.nationalreview.com - 2/17/2009
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corner.nationalreview.com —
The problem with Jonah's argument is that congressional
Republicans were never really willing to concede the principle...
that stimulus was needed. Their tax plan was just a rehash of old hash that was never plausibly linked to the particular economic ...
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Stimulus in the House
businesspundit.com - 2/12/2009
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businesspundit.com —
StimulusWatch is a new wiki that uses online
feedback to hold the government accountable for its elephantine...
stimulus package. From the website : StimulusWatch.org was built to help the new administration keep its pledge to invest stimulus money smartly, and to hold public officials to ...
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Stimulus Watch: Web Watchdog for the Stimulus Package
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Recap: The Stimulus Bill and the Macro Impact
Econbrowser —
... of the situation, rather than just being a pointless political exercise. I believe that reinstitution of the Investment Tax Credit would have been the best Republican alternative. I made the argument here, but got no takers. ... In the end, Republicans preferred to reject the principle of stimulus, thus taking themselves out of the game. I think that was a mistake, both politically and substantively.
Source: Bruce Bartlett at NRO. (h/t Brad Delong)
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output gap, ...
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