Showing posts with label debt limit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label debt limit. Show all posts
Thursday, October 10, 2013

Short: Debt Default 101 ... before it's moot

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The talking point on the right is that US doesn't have to default on its bonds, or SS payments, or anything that could bring a shitstorm...
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Tuesday, October 8, 2013

GOP wants negotiations, eh? Part 2

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Robert Costa, the National Review reporter with all the recent GOP inside scoops, directed his twitter followers to this Wall Street Journal...
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Sunday, January 20, 2013

Good news from the GOP, Part 1

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So while I was writing that the GOP was pretty quiet about their debt ceiling strategy, they were in Virginia discussing and changing that ...
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Saturday, January 19, 2013

Obama's budget dilemma

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Obama has a constitutional requirement to submit a budget. It makes sense, but I didn't realize this was a constitutional requirement. [...
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Monday, January 14, 2013

Bad news for spending cuts, Part 2

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Is the GOP still in disarray? They've been very quiet about their strategy related to the debt ceiling. Perhaps there are huddles going ...
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Thursday, January 10, 2013

Mint-y fresh

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I'm not going to say a lot about the idea of Obama having the Treasury mint a trillion dollar coin and thereby avoid the issue of the de...
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The limits of leverage

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One of the epiphanies I had about politics since I started writing this blog was realizing the importance of leverage. Specifically, the G...
Sunday, December 2, 2012

"You really should take Simpson-Bowles"

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During the campaign, the GOP complained that Obama really should have supported Simpson-Bowles deficit reduction report. They made this ear...
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Monday, November 14, 2011

The Unbearable Debt Deal Quantified

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As I wrote before , the wily Dems managed to get the Republicans to agree defense spending cuts that they now find unpalatable. Republicans ...
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Thursday, November 10, 2011

The Unbearable Debt Deal

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Republicans used the debt ceiling to extract cuts from the Democrats, but they didn't make sure they got only the cuts they could stomac...
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Monday, August 29, 2011

History for Amnesiacs: Our stolen Social Security taxes

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In this lesson, I have to ease off my usual how-could-you-forget tone. I had to do a bunch of research to confirm, and in some cases correc...
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Sunday, August 7, 2011

Cut-only deficit reduction

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In my earlier post about the debt deal , I didn't discuss an issue that's being weighing on me: how important is it to have both spe...
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Thursday, August 4, 2011

The Political Lie Machine: An Artificial Crisis

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A talking point for the left has been that Tea Party aligned House member created an artificial crisis over raising the debt ceiling. The a...
Tuesday, August 2, 2011

The Debt Limit Deal

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I'm glad the bill passed the House and the Senate. The House vote was 269-161, with 174 Repubs and 95 Democrats voting yes. My own repre...