austerity – Naperville Township Democrats

To Infrastruct or Not To Infrastruct?

I confess it occurred to me shortly after the horror of last Tuesday had begun to settle in that at...

Historically low and ever-lower interest rates mean bond markets are begging us to borrow, roads and bridges are falling apart,...

I was struck by this piece from Capitol Fax this morning. The Governor’s response to observations about the damage he’s...

From Professor Krugman the other day: The CBO tells us that the federal deficit is way down — under 3...

I was interested to see this in my in-box this morning, from Congressman Bill Foster. It’s nice that he, too,...

In the course of a worthy rumination on how we might get some relief for Americans who still need unemployment...

The evidence is piling up more and more deeply that austerity (i.e., cutting spending) is the wrong policy for the...

Solid analysis today from Jonathan Chait. The stubborn facts about austerity and about ObamaCare’s effect on health care cost inflation...

Professor Krugman, in knocking down some common excuses for not providing the fiscal boost our economy should be getting right...

Now that the sequester cuts are starting to affect people the Republicans care about, they’re being forced to take notice....