Monthly Archives: February 2013

The single best chart on the policies driving our deficits — now updated!

At the end of this Center for Budget and Policy Priorities paper is a terribly sad note: “This represents the final update of an analysis that we first produced in 2009 and have updated once or twice annually since.” That … Continue reading

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Study Confirms Tea Party Was Created by Big Tobacco and Billionaire Koch Brothers

Source: Huffington Post A new academic study confirms that front groups with longstanding ties to the tobacco industry and the billionaire Koch brothers planned the formation of the Tea Party movement more than a decade before it exploded onto the … Continue reading

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Our Incredible Shrinking Government

Source: Paul Krugman Most analysts are, rightly, shrugging off the surprise report of an actual decline in 4th quarter GDP. It will probably be revised away, and in any case it’s the result of one-off factors: a drop in inventories … Continue reading

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