The Plum Line Archive: economy
Do people care about the deficit?
Duncan Black poses a question: Nobody cares about the deficit. Why don't people understand this? Matthew Yglesias attempts an answer: Politicians don't understand that the voters don't care about the deficit because the voters themselves don't understand that they don't...
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Greg Sargent
| March 11, 2011; 12:15 PM ET |
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Report: House GOP budget cuts would destroy 700,000 jobs
Lori Montgomery scoops: A Republican plan to sharply cut federal spending this year would destroy 700,000 jobs through 2012, according to an independent economic analysis set for release Monday. The report, by Moody's Analytics chief economist Mark Zandi, offers fresh...
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Greg Sargent
| February 28, 2011; 10:49 AM ET |
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House GOPers, budget, deficit, economy
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Obama seized control of debate over government
That, I think, is the primary takeaway from Obama's State of the Union speech: After an electoral loss that Republicans are casting as a mandate to severely downsize government, Obama's number one goal was to seize control of the debate...
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Greg Sargent
| January 26, 2011; 8:54 AM ET |
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Health reform, House GOPers, Morning Plum, Tea Party, deficit, economy
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Happy Hour Roundup
UPDATE, 6:18 p.m.: The first batch of advance excerpts of Obama's speech suggest he'll frame needed government investment in our future (a.k.a. spending) as an imperative of national progress and pride, comparing such investment to that which ultimately allowed the...
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Greg Sargent
| January 25, 2011; 6:11 PM ET |
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The Morning Plum
* Obama vulnerable on jobs and the economy: Yes, Obama is in the midst of a rebound, particularly among independents, but two new polls out this morning offer a sobering reminder of the ground he needs to make up on...
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Greg Sargent
| January 21, 2011; 8:30 AM ET |
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Christmas Eve Roundup
* It's good to see that Obama is so uninterested in the "triangulation" game that he's banned the word in the White House: Despite all his time studying the Clinton administration, Mr. Obama told his aides that he had no...
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Greg Sargent
| December 24, 2010; 8:39 AM ET |
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House GOPers, Morning Plum, economy, gay rights
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