Joe Klein argues that the Republican talking point that Obama’s stimulus plan will cost $275,ooo per new job created is “phony-baloney propaganda.” I had actually been thinking it was the best anti-stimulus argument that John Boehner’s office had managed to come up with so far (which isn’t saying much, but it’s saying more than “phoney-baloney”). [...]
I have a new TIME.com piece up about George Bush’s eight biggest economic policy errors. It begins here, but it’s one of those irritating (but multiple page-view generating) galleries, so if you’d prefer to consume al a carte, here are the eight erroneous zones: The Return to Deficits Iraq Tax Cuts for the Rich Financial [...]
