Recent financial pieces over there (I feel bad - I think I was too rough on Orszag. Breathe, Eskow, breathe!!)
Peter Orszag's Tax "Compromise": Rubin's Ghost Haunts the Middle Class Again
89 Comments | Posted September 7, 2010 | 05:01 PM (EST)
Peter Orszag's maiden voyage as a New York Times columnist resonates with twenty years of failed economic policy. It's a grab bag of Robert Rubin's Greatest Hits, remixed by a younger DJ for new audiences. It's all there: The mythologizing of the markets. The ritualized search for "credibility."...
Labor Day Irony: The People Who Want to Cut Social Security All Have Great Retirement Plans
460 Comments | Posted September 3, 2010 | 01:48 PM (EST)
Events of the last week have made the Deficit Commission an embarrassment. Co-Chair Alan Simpson is a one-man disaster movie, compulsively offending one key voting bloc after another. Commission member Paul Ryan faced an angry crowd over his anti-Social Security stance, while another Commissioner locked experienced workers out...
Coup d'Etat: Standard & Poor's Is Now Giving Orders to Congress ... and the American People
395 Comments | Posted August 30, 2010 | 03:05 PM (EST)
There's been a lot of talk recently about the enormous power that's been given to the Deficit Commission, which is co-chaired by Alan "Social Security recipients are milking it" Simpson and dominated by people who have advocated cuts to Social Security and Medicare. But here's an aspect of...
Angering a Key Constituency: Women Leaders Ask the President to Fire Alan Simpson
47 Comments | Posted August 27, 2010 | 02:59 PM (EST)
Four prominent leaders of women's organizations held a conference call today, accompanied by Rep. Raul Grijalva, to demand the resignation of retired Sen. Alan Simpson as co-chair of the Deficit Commission. Their comments, together with a number of private conversations with women's leaders, indicate that Simpson and his Commission could...
Milk Cow Blues: Why the Alan Simpson Flap Won't Go Away
74 Comments | Posted August 26, 2010 | 02:09 PM (EST)
Alan Simpson said he's sorry, but it's not enough. The calls for his resignation will continue - and not because of "political correctness" or his use of the word "tit," as some of his apologists have suggested. They'll continue because he's uninformed about Social Security, ideologically biased, and temperamentally unfit...
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