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From the LA Times article, this quote: [quote]Greenstein touted Sperling as uniquely qualified to replace Summers, having done the job before during a Democratic presidency when Republicans had control...
View ArticleHow would one get elected
How would one get elected advocating bursting a bubble? When it comes to the stock and housing bubble we have seen the enemy and it is the median voter. The stock bubble was partly the result of the...
View ArticleAnother Boat Missed
President Obama's appointment of Gene Sperling is another boat missed. When I look at the number of competent economists who support the changes the President feature in his campaign rhetoric, I wonder...
View ArticleOBTW
For an interesting comment on President Obama's choice of Sperling and other of his persuasion, check out:...
View ArticleLeaving the Waters Undesturbed
In fact, this is what's wrong with ALL economic hold-overs from the Clinton era. Clinton's economic prosperity was based on the dot-com bubble, and not upon an improvement in the economy's underlying...
View Articlenice to see the libertarians and radicals speaking again
This is like Barney Frank and Ron Paul going after the Fed. Such joy in the new year! Now go for the jugular...stop the destabilizing activist monetary policy now. Ditch the employment provision in the...
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Maybe we'll get the same kind of horrors we got with welfare "reform," you know, the kind of legislation you get with Republican control of Congress. - PeonInChief
View ArticleSelectively quoted by The Times?
Dean- Did you say all of this to Jim Puzzanghera when he contacted you for a comment? If so, he has clearly skewed the record and is busy making the (liberal) case for Sperling's appointment. - Anthony...
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Name names. By not naming names -- the reporters and editors who should be most responsible to establishing the correct tone and content of reporting on this subject -- it makes it much easier for them...
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I can't believe that the reporter noted Sperling's support for girls' education when it should be well known that the Clinton Administration was no more in favor of free education for girls than the...
View ArticleMind Reading?
Aren't you violating your own principle about not assuming you can read someone else's mind here? You're quick to criticize NYT and WP authors for writing their articles this way. You don't know that...
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