Where, you ask, are all the jobs we need going to come from? It’s a critical question that I plan to blog about in coming weeks. But for now, let me relate a good story I heard on the radio this AM. General Motors is breaking ground on a new factory in Maryland where they’re… Read more
Archive for the ‘Economic Growth’ Category
This Just In: Wars Are Expensive
A thoughtful piece in the latest New Yorker by David Remnick on the death of Bin Laden got me thinking about the costs of war. Remnick wrote*: “Bin Laden’s death underscores the question of why we go on losing young men and women daily in the defense of an indefensibly corrupt government in Kabul.” I’ve… Read more
The Correct Diagnosis
In my opening post to this new blog, I pointed out that a top objective was to correct false assertions regarding economic arguments. Well, allow me to outsource to my CBPP colleague Paul Van de Water. If we’re going to meet the fiscal challenges we face, we’ve got to accurately diagnose the problem. The much-circulated… Read more
Sell the Gold Above the Fold (And a Few Words on the Debt Ceiling)
As I wearily got my Washington Post from the stoop early this AM—yes, some of us still read the “broadsheets”—I was bemused to see this crazy article, front page, above the fold. There are lots of reasons why this is a bad idea: –selling public assets may be a fine thing to do but it… Read more