Martin Feldstein
No, Romney Didn’t Win The Middle Class
My TNR colleague Alec McGillis does a fine job filleting Romney strategist Stuart Stevens’s op-ed in today’s Washington Post, but there's one point I’d like to add: Stevens is dead wrong when he says Romney won the middle class vote. READ MORE >>
Who’s Middle Class And Who’s Not: A Retort to Romney and Obama
How Democrats Can Make Common Cause with Occupy Wall Street
This article is a contribution to ‘Liberalism and Occupy Wall Street,’ a TNR symposium. Click here to read other contributions to the series. READ MORE >>
Did I Invent Current Tax Law?
Since today there's another entry in what I expect will be a perpetual series of articles urging President Obama to make a bipartisan deal to cut the deficit, let me plug my (subscription only, so subscribe!) TRB column arguing that there's a better and easier way to handle the medium-term deficit: READ MORE >>
Rehabilitating Bush
Worth Reading
Macroblog compiles the evidence for a jobless recovery. The CBO on how and when its estimates are made public. Will banking reform dominate the first half of 2010? READ MORE >>
Military Spending as Fiscal Stimulus?
Stop Martin Feldstein Before He Opines Again
Martin Feldstein tends to give extremely bad advice when he wades into politics. Still, he retains enough academic prestige that hs pronouncements carry some weight, deserved or otherwise. Today, he comes out against the cap-and-trade legslation working its way through Congress: READ MORE >>
