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• May 2, 2013 | Winning the intellectual debate on austerity while losing the policy debate

• May 1, 2013 | Building a Tax Code for Today

• April 30, 2013 | Reinhart and Rogoff couldn’t justify austerity before it was debunked

• April 15, 2013 | Tax Day 2013: For the vast major, it’s all about the expired payroll tax cut

• April 15, 2013 | How High Should Top Income Tax Rates Be? Getting the Fight Right

• April 12, 2013 | The Obama budget’s misguidedly lower revenue target

• April 4, 2013 | No, New Tax Cuts Will Not Pay for Themselves

• March 26, 2013 | Senate Democratic budget overly focused on deficit reduction

• March 22, 2013 | Aggressively targeting a full recovery is the least risky thing you can do: Back to Work Budget edition

• March 18, 2013 | House Democratic budget would also boost employment

• March 12, 2013 | Ryan proposes another path to fewer jobs and slower growth

• Feb. 28, 2013 | Sequestration was never about fiscal responsibility

• Feb. 28, 2013 | GOP sequester position derails recovery (again)

• Feb. 5, 2013 | The Progressive Caucus’s sensible approach to sequestration: Prioritizing jobs and growth

• Jan. 25, 2013 | When and what kind of deficit reduction matters most: The danger of aggressive 10-year deficit targets in the current budget debate

• Jan. 24, 2013 | The importance of revenue revisited: Minimizing the drag of austerity

• Jan. 18, 2013 | The congressional GOP has smothered a more rapid economic recovery

• Jan. 3, 2013 | At best, budget deal suggests decelerating anemic growth, labor market deterioration

• Dec. 21, 2012 | Boehner’s ‘Plan B’ would result in an austerity-induced recession

• Nov. 30, 2012 | Obama’s opening bid is both familiar and sound

• Nov. 28, 2012 | True deficit hawks would be worried with jobs and recovery first

• Nov. 19, 2012 | Since when do we congratulate ourselves just for not going over a cliff?

• Nov. 15, 2012 | Five job creation policies for handling the fiscal obstacle course and slowing deficit reduction

• Nov. 15, 2012 | Recommendations for successfully navigating the fiscal obstacle course

• Nov. 13, 2012 | Boehner’s talking about accelerating deficit reduction, not avoiding the fiscal obstacle course

• Nov. 8, 2012 | What does President Obama’s re-election mean for the ‘fiscal cliff?’

• Nov. 5, 2012 | Enacting a ‘grand bargain’ doesn’t equate to navigating the fiscal obstacle course

• Nov. 2, 2012 | GOP senators to Congressional Research Service: Research? We don’t need no stinking research

• Oct. 24, 2012 | How revenue-neutrality would change the employment impact of Romney’s budget plan

• Oct. 23, 2012 | Schumer’s spot on: 1986 is the wrong model for tax reform

• Oct. 17, 2012 | False equivalence in candidates’ budgetary unknowns

• Oct. 11, 2012 | Romney budget hides nearly $9 trillion of painful consequences

• Oct. 5, 2012 | Robert Samuelson is drinking Mitt Romney’s tax cut Kool-Aid

• Oct. 4, 2012 | Even more mathematically impossible tax promises

• Oct. 3, 2012 | The payroll tax cut is likely to expire—let’s replace it with better stimulus

• Sept. 26, 2012 | Obama’s budget policies would be better for growth than Romney’s

• Sept. 19, 2012 | Romney’s regressive socioeconomic philosophy is nothing new

• Sept. 18, 2012 | No, we’re nowhere close to the limits of effective fiscal stimulus

• Sept. 10, 2012 | Tax cuts, and debt, and arithmetic: Oh my!

• Sept. 6, 2012 | Would full passage of Obama’s Jobs Act have added another million jobs?

• Aug. 29, 2012 | Paul Ryan is not (and has never been) a deficit hawk

• Aug. 14, 2012 | Lessons from the French: It’s time to tax high-frequency trading

• Aug. 13, 2012 | What a Romney-Ryan budget would mean for Americans

• July 6, 2012 | On health care reform, Mitt Romney knows better

• June 28, 2012 | The efficiencies of publicly provided health care, revisited

• June 18, 2012 | Failure to stimulate recovery is costing trillions in lost national income

• June 8, 2012 | Update to yesterday’s blog post “Fiscal hawks’ double standard for Social Security cuts vs. tax cuts”

• June 7, 2012 | Fiscal hawks’ double standard for Social Security cuts vs. tax cuts

• June 6, 2012 | Not all debt is created equal, David Brooks

• May 22, 2012 | Don’t let Congress fast-track another tax cut

• May 17, 2012 | Speaker Boehner pledges to hijack the debt ceiling and jeopardize recovery again

• May 11, 2012 | Larry Summers shrewdly reframes tax simplification

• May 4, 2012 | Underemployment isn’t a ‘myth’ for recent college grads

• May 3, 2012 | What world of fiscal policy is Michael Gerson inhabiting?

• April 24, 2012 | Sequestration will slow the recovery and job growth, period

• April 24, 2012 | Romney opposes the Buffett Rule? Why would that be?

• April 20, 2012 | Why resurrect budget dinosaurs and bad economic policy?

• April 17, 2012 | With tax day upon us, file these numbers away

• April 12, 2012 | Since when does each and every budget policy proposal have to singlehandedly eliminate the deficit?

• April 3, 2012 | Nothing screams fiscal charlatan like a $4.5 trillion tax cut financed by gimmicks

• March 28, 2012 | Congressional Progressive Caucus budget would boost employment by millions—unlike the Ryan budget

• March 8, 2012 | A jobs bill in substance or acronym only?

• March 7, 2012 | Mankiw swings and misses in defense of Romney’s carried interest

• Feb. 27, 2012 | Rein in the debt tax preference, raise some revenue

• Feb. 24, 2012 | Where is the ‘shared sacrifice’ in this framework for corporate tax reform?

• Feb. 22, 2012 | Coordinated investment as an alternative to doubling down on austerity’s failure

• Feb. 16, 2012 | The president’s jobs package would indeed create jobs

• Feb. 13, 2012 | President Obama’s FY 2013 budget: The Buffett Rule and progressive tax reform

• Feb. 7, 2012 | The tax expenditure of the 1%

• Feb. 2, 2012 | Bush-era tax cuts remain the obstacle to fiscal sustainability

• Jan. 30, 2012 | Massive tax cuts don’t square with professed concerns about public debt

• Jan. 24, 2012 | Mitch Daniels, deficit peacock

• Jan. 20, 2012 | You can’t measure tax progressivity while ignoring income trends

• Jan. 10, 2012 | Shouldn’t everyone be listening to Nouriel Roubini?

• Jan. 6, 2012 | Capping federal spending at 18% of GDP is still infeasible

• Dec. 23, 2011 | Worst economic idea of the year?

• Dec. 22, 2011 | WSJ swings and misses on tax policy

• Dec. 13, 2011 | Voodoo economics playbook: Gingrich goes all in

• Dec. 13, 2011 | Congressional Progressive Caucus picks up where Obama’s speech left off

• Dec. 8, 2011 | Eliminating Medicare epitomizes penny wise, pound foolish budgeting (it’s bad health policy, too)

• Dec. 7, 2011 | Supply-side’s abject failure

• Nov. 29, 2011 | Ryan’s budget proposals belie concerns about inequality

• Nov. 10, 2011 | Fiscal responsibility demands addressing the economic crisis at hand, not the imaginary one

• Nov. 8, 2011 | Senate compromise falls woefully short of a jobs plan

• Nov. 1, 2011 | Rick Perry’s reverse Robin Hood tax plan

• Oct. 21, 2011 | Cantor’s strange way of caring about inequality

• Oct. 19, 2011 | Plutocrats win big with ‘999,’ while 84 percent of households get hosed

• Oct. 18, 2011 | Uh-oh, the peasants are getting angry… time to lie to them about taxes!

• Oct. 14, 2011 | Big recession, big budget deficits

• Oct. 11, 2011 | Is Grover’s pledge losing gravitas?

• Oct. 5, 2011 | Eric Cantor cares about poverty?

• Sept. 29, 2011 | Nine-nine-nine nonsense

• Sept. 21, 2011 | Another repatriation holiday will decrease employment and revenue

• Sept. 20, 2011 | Enamored with debt numerology

• Sept. 19, 2011 | Five reasons for progressives to like Obama’s Super Committee proposal

• Sept. 15, 2011 | More revenue should be raised from those at the top, not at the bottom

• Sept. 14, 2011 | Paying for job creation the right way