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Apr 1, 2014

Ryan v. Obama on short-term deficits

House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan released his proposed budget resolution today. As I’ve done in the past I’m going to compare his proposal to the President’s budget. I’d like to include Senate Budget Committee Chairman Patty Murray’s proposal but she has…

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Oct 3, 2012

For tonight’s debate

Here’s the question I’d like to see Jim Lehrer ask President Obama:

President Obama, you and Speaker Boehner were unable to reach a big picture budget agreement last year. If you are re-elected and Mr. Boehner continues as Speaker, why should voters expect a…

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Sep 13, 2012

The price of politics: a bit over $1 trillion

At almost every recent campaign stop President Obama has said a version of this:

Independent analysis shows my plan for reducing the deficit would cut it by $4 trillion. I’ve already worked with Republicans in Congress to cut…

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Jun 15, 2012

President Obama’s Cleveland economy speech — detailed outline

This is the second of two posts. Here is the first, a much shorter high-level version of the outline contained here.

This is my attempt to build a detailed outline of the economic speech President…

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Jun 15, 2012

President Obama’s Cleveland economy speech — high-level outline

This is the first of two posts.

Here is my attempt to outline the meaty 53 minute economic speech President Obama gave yesterday in Cleveland. I built this outline to help myself analyze the…

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Feb 13, 2012

The ratio of spending cuts to tax increases in the President’s budget

The Obama Administration claims their new budget contains $2.50 of spending cuts for every $1 of tax increases. Here is White House Chief of Staff and former Budget Director Jack Lew on Meet the Press yesterday:

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Jan 23, 2012

President Obama’s changing economic problem definition & deficit strategy

In advance of tomorrow’s State of the Union address I have been rereading President Obama’s major economic speeches. I had hoped to show a progression of argument, but that didn’t pan out. Instead two…

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Nov 22, 2011

Congressional Republicans’ strategic shift on taxes

For months a common story line in the budget debate has been that a bipartisan deficit reduction deal was impossible as long as Republicans refused to raise taxes. President Obama, Congressional Democrats, and many observers asserted that…

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Oct 24, 2011

Democracy is SO inconvenient

In anticipation of today’s mortgage refinancing policy announcement in Las Vegas, White House Communications Director Dan Pfieffer writes:

Using the mantra “we can’t wait,” the President will highlight executive actions that his Administration will…

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Sep 26, 2011

Three silly stimulus arguments

Here are responses to three silly stimulus arguments I hear frequently.

Argument: This fiscal stimulus will increase economic growth and create jobs.