economistmom.com - 1/27/2009
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I’m a bit concerned that despite the new President’s assurances, we could be headed for a not -so-smart economic “recovery” package. From today’s Wall Street Journal (story by Greg Hitt and Naftali Bendavid), emphasis added:
WASHINGTON — As President ...
online.wsj.com - 1/22/2009
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online.wsj.com —
GREG HITT and NAFTALI BENDAVID WASHINGTON -- As
President Barack Obama's $825 billion economic-recovery package began making...
its way through Capitol Hill, congressional budget analysts suggested a key plank of the plan may not provide as big a ...
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Bill May Not Stimulate Jobs Right Away
washingtonwatch.com - 1/21/2009
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washingtonwatch.com —
Last week, the House Appropriations Committee posted a
copy of the economic stimulus bill, called the “American...
Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009,” online. Though it hasn’t been officially introduced yet, in a statement released Thursday, the ...
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Stimulus Bill Text - The WashingtonWatch.com Blog
economistmom.com - 1/27/2009
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economistmom.com —
In today’s Forbes, Bruce Bartlett seems to worry,
as I do , that a lot of this...
so-called “stimulus” won’t really stimulate the economy anytime soon–and if that’s the case, that the choice to deficit finance that ...
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Bruce Bartlett Worries About Not-So-Stimulating ...
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Op-Ed: Misplaced Handwringing on the Stimulus
Angry Bear —
Tom Bozzo has observed EconomistMom Diane Lim Rogers run multiple items pertaining to claims that it's inappropriate to use deficit spending for longer-run public investments, and opines that such claims do not make a hell of a lot of sense. As Rogers is following basically Republican sources (the Washington Post op-ed page, Bruce Bartlett, the Wall Street Journal), at least the strong implication is that deficit-financing households' consumption — or at least transferring debts from the private to the public sector — is OK (for that's what individual tax cuts are; do read Bob Herbert for the latest installment of the ...
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