Author: Mike Konczal
The establishment “lane” has gone to Marco Rubio. That lane has become far more radical, and far more in sync with financial wealth, than anyone should have expected a year ago.
When I wrote a long piece about the Voluntarism Fantasy at Democracy Journal, several people accused me of attacking a strawman. My argument was that there’s an influential, yet never clearly articulated, position on the conservative right ...
There was a fantastic piece in The Atlantic back in 2000 about psychiatrists dealing with people who wanted to have their limbs cut off because it would make them feel more like themselves to be amputees. The doctors’ ...
A few years ago, Freddie DeBoer argued that the terms “left” and “liberal” in the political blogosphere were really more descriptive of argument style and political strategy rather than any actual ideological differences. I think there’s a ...
In 2010, economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff released a seminal paper titled “Growth in a Time of Debt,” which had a significant impact on policy in Washington and elsewhere. Their paper’s most important finding was ...
House Republicans are looking to weaponize the debt ceiling again, while the Obama administration is trying to make removing the threat of default part of any agreement. Here’s one reason why the debt ceiling needs to ...
As part of our series “A Rooseveltian Second-Term Agenda,” an outline of what needs to be done to build upon and safeguard Dodd-Frank. One of the Obama administration’s biggest vulnerabilities when it comes to its ...
The big question is not whether to dismantle Dodd-Frank, but whether it gets implemented correctly. Wednesday’s presidential debate had a relatively detailed discussion of the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill. From a transcript, this is how President ...
As you’ve likely heard, Mitt Romney was recorded at a fundraiser saying “there are 47 percent who are with [President Obama], who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has ...
Republicans might not repeal Dodd-Frank outright, but they’d eliminate the system of rules that make it work. It was just announced that Tim Pawlenty will become the head of the bank lobbying group Financial Services ...
Students who take out loans aren’t receiving special favors. They’re making financial transactions like any other. Do we make both a conceptual and analytical mistake when we refer to student loans as a form of ...
As of 10 p.m. Sunday night, the Chicago Teachers Union has gone on strike. Here is a webpage for why they are striking, complete with the one-page explanation and the 46-page one. Here’s PCCC’s summary. ...
Romney’s five-point plan to adress the specific aspects of our current jobs crisis recycles, nearly word for word, plans from far different economic times. I’ve been watching the 2012 Republican National Convention, trying to get ...
Last week’s big news in campaign policy was the Tax Policy Center’s white paper by Samuel Brown, William G. Gale, and Adam Looney, arguing that it is mathematically impossible for the Romney tax plan to ...
The government job losses that are holding the recovery back are directly related to the Republican state legislators who were swept to power in 2010. Last Friday, both presidential candidates had a back-and-forth over the ...
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