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A New Job
New York City :: NY :: USA | 13 days ago
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On Monday, I start a new job at the Washington Post , where I'll be covering tech policy with the Wonkblog team. Led by Ezra Klein, WonkBlog provides in-depth analysis of domestic policy issues...I'll also be resurrecting Bottom-Up , the predecessor
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Elitists on left and right share immigration disconnect
In the post-election GOP, many Republicans now share common ground on immigration with the “let’s all get along” progressives. The more traditional Republicans remain allied with blue-collar Democrats in wanting to reduce the
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Obama's new budget shifts priorities away from domestic hiring
The White House has finally released its budget proposal, 244 pages followed by a host of charts, graphs and tables to support $3.78 trillion in spending for fiscal 2014. If early leaks were any indication of President Barack Obama&
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Low-population Montana could define our fiscal fate for the future
The devil almost always is in the details, and especially so when predicting the fate of tax reform in the US Senate. The low-population state of Montana, with barely one million inhabitants and less than four-tenths of 1 percent of our total
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MSNBC’s prime-time mistake was Chris Hayes over Ezra Klein
On Monday, MSNBC executives rolled the dice with their coveted 8 p.m. time slot. The primetime "Ed Show" with Ed Schultz was replaced by "All in" with Chris Hayes. By Wednesday, it was clear that things weren’t working
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MSNBC: Stocks Didn't Really Hit An All-Time High Today
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 3 months ago
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average hit an all-time high on Tuesday. Ezra Klein was quite sour saying, "The Dow Jones is a little bit weird in that it doesn't adjust for inflation which is how we would always do a calculation like this. So if you do
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Is the dreaded ‘double-dip’ recession on its way?
An old joke about economists is that if all them were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion. Will Americans soon take another dip into recessionary waters, as Europe is currently experiencing, or will we blast off and
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WaPo 'Guppy' Ezra Klein Lamely Claims 2012 Election Win Allows Obama to Break Pledge and Include Tax Increases in Sequestration
New York City :: NY :: USA | 3 months ago
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Jounolist conspiracy organizer's pathetic attempt to refute Bob Woodward's indisputably correct claims that sequestration was the brainchild of Obama administation officials and that "Obama personally approved" it is a morning-maker. Rather than take
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To sequester or not to sequester, that is the question on Capitol Hill
If Shakespeare's Hamlet had had to face the current sequestering debate on Capitol Hill, he may never have finished his famous soliloquy or fixed upon a desirable course of action. It appears that incompetence is reigning once
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Does Obama’s minimum wage idea really stand a chance on Capitol Hill?
Everyone appreciates a raise now and then. The health of our economy actually depends upon it. The fact is that our consumer-driven economy only grows when net disposable income per capita grows in a similar fashion. As wage levels
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