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ProSense

(116,464 posts) Fri Feb 21, 2014, 09:21 AM Feb 2014

Abbreviated pundit roundup: Rejecting austerity

Abbreviated pundit roundup: Rejecting austerity

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/02/21/1279265/-Abbreviated-pundit-roundup-Rejecting-austerity

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Krugman: Ain’t It Not Grand? ProSense Feb 2014 #1

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1. Krugman: Ain’t It Not Grand?

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Fri Feb 21, 2014, 09:40 AM

Feb 2014

Ain’t It Not Grand?

Hurray: President Obama has dropped his notion of using a change in the price index to cut Social Security benefits.

This is a big deal, not just because of the concrete implications for retirees, but because it signals the end of an era. BowlesSimpsonism is dead; “responsible” policy will no longer be defined as the search for a fiscal Grand Bargain.

We might even be on the path to grappling with America’s real problems.

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/21/aint-it-not-grand

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