The greatest threat to the U.S. economy is not creeping socialism. It's creeping subsidism
By Michael Lind Oct 26, 2009
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The real unemployment rate is almost 20 percent. Here's what the federal government can do about the jobs crisis
By Michael Lind
October 19, 2009
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The 18th century's patron saint of free markets shares his surprising views about Barack Obama and the U.S. economy
By Michael Lind
October 6, 2009
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Move over, Yoko. The right wing has found a new villain to blame for the sundering of John, Paul, George and Ringo
By Andrew Leonard
September 15, 2009
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Nothing will keep the rich from whining about how tough easy street is
By David Sirota
August 8, 2009
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Most state parks survived the budget crisis. But at least one bike ride is emerging with collateral damage
By Andrew Leonard
July 30, 2009
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Students, children, the frail and the poor are all hurt by the new budget deal. But a Houston oil company scores
By Andrew Leonard
July 21, 2009
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Reports out of Sacramento suggest legislators and the governor have reached a budget deal
By Andrew Leonard
July 21, 2009
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Higher education budget cuts slam students, staff and faculty in the Golden State. Oh yeah, and everywhere else
By Andrew Leonard
July 20, 2009
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It's what the House of Representatives wants to do to pay for healthcare. It's a good idea, and a great slogan
By Robert Reich
July 16, 2009
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The Golden State's budget crisis can't be that terrible if people are interested in buying its IOUs. Right?
By Andrew Leonard
July 6, 2009
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Unemployment in the Golden State hits a record 11.5 percent. Where's our New Western Deal?
By Andrew Leonard
June 19, 2009
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States are pushing ahead with their own reforms instead of waiting for the president to act.
By David Sirota
June 13, 2009
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Forget about Citigroup, AIG, or General Motors. A Golden State bankruptcy would make them all look like small fry.
By Andrew Leonard
June 10, 2009
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Closed parks, public education in tatters, state workers on the unemployment line: How did we get here?
By Andrew Leonard
June 9, 2009
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Libertarians and conservatives react to the latest undramatic report on the trust fund's health by marshalling frightening, meaningless numbers.
By Michael Lind
May 19, 2009
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Those darn Scandinavians lead the world in "life satisfaction" and super-expensive "nanny states." Could they get any more annoying?
By Andrew Leonard
May 15, 2009
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The "ruthless pragmatist" is actually passionate about a central moral issue of modern American life -- the lopsided distribution of political and economic power.
By Robert Reich
May 6, 2009
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It's about revenue and fulfilling campaign promises, but it may also have something to do with getting universal health insurance enacted.
By Robert Reich
May 5, 2009
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Deficits don't matter -- and Republicans who are complaining about Barack Obama's spending are hypocrites.
By Joe Conason
March 27, 2009
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An outraged Congress wants blood, but the Obama administration seems to be biding its time, setting itself up for a larger victory.
By Gabriel Winant
March 19, 2009
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Obama spending "$1 billion an hour" and other silliness. Watch me break it down on CNN.
By Joan Walsh
March 16, 2009
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Once, even Republican presidents like Eisenhower and Nixon believed in the public sector. Now, during a national crisis, a Democrat opts for inadequate, neoliberal, private-sector remedies. What happened?
By Michael Lind
March 6, 2009
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Budgets are about priorities, not numbers, and President Obama's first budget marks a sea change from the past eight years.
By Mike Madden
February 27, 2009
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There's fiscal chaos in capitals coast to coast and the stimulus didn't stop it. A tour of the mayhem, from the nearly bankrupt, like California, to the flush.
By Mark Schone
February 26, 2009
The tax breaks that ate America
That sound you hear is the social fabric about to snap
Salon interviews the late Adam Smith
Did the taxman break up the Beatles?
The me-first, screw-everyone-else crowd
Tax the wealthy to keep everyone healthy
Waiting for Obama
The right's Social Security scare tactics
Obama, the enemy of economic inequality
Why Obama is taking on corporate tax havens
Dick Cheney was right
Will Wall Street tax cheats provoke reform? 
More lies from the GOP
Obama's timid liberalism
This is not George Bush's budget
States of panic
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