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A recent article by the best-known Keynesian economist at Yale, Robert Schiller, begins this way: [A] … fact … about our current economic situation … can no longer be denied: our economy is in desperate need of government stimulus. Does the rest of the article provide a defense of stimulus? No. Since the need for stimulus is undeniable, there is no need to defend it. No reasonable person would disagree. Right? Wrong. There is a problem here. Reasonable people do disagree, strongly disagree. Robert Barro, the distinguished Harvard economist, wrote an article about the same time as Schiller's explaining why...

On the defensive over the economy and health care, the White House is shooting back with a double-barreled message for its critics and skeptics. To Republicans who say the stimulus isn’t working: Back off. To moderate Democrats wary of health care reform: We’re watching you. Earlier this week, the administration launched a coordinated effort to jam Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl, an Arizona Republican who’s argued that the government should “cancel the rest of the stimulus spending.” No fewer than four Cabinet secretaries wrote to Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer — also a Republican — to ask her if she agreed...

Caucus: Two Groups Plan Dodd Protest May 16, 2009 Two groups critical of U.S. Sen. Christopher Dodd are planning protests today. Members of Dump Chris Dodd will gather at Griffin Hospital in Derby at 10:30 a.m. Dodd, U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-3rd District, and Nancy-Ann DeParle, director of the White House Office of Health Reform, are to appear at the hospital to discuss health care reform. A separate anti-Dodd group, Connecticut Resistance, will hold a rally outside Dodd's Hartford office on Lewis Street around noon.

Bernanke testifies today and tells the market that the recession may be over this year and that we are not nationalizing the banks. Yahoo Market rallies, shorts get killed and Barry goes on TV to finish what Ben started today. People put money back in and then the big crash happens in the next month. Bernanke's Hide and Seek Delaying Tactics What's It Gonna Be? Confidence GONE: More Concealment by Government Here it Comes Verdict: No Confidence And even Krugman isn't sold..... Mysterious plans

Washington Post TV writer Lisa de Moraes reported Friday that Team Obama is demanding a lot of free TV space in prime time in the next few weeks: a Monday night press conference, a "stimulus" push on the Monday night after that, the 16th, and the State of the Union on Tuesday, February 24. (What about House, and The Bachelor?) Network suits are already whining, but are too afraid of pulling out the Just Say No card: President Obama's desire to talk -- and talk, and talk -- to the American public could cost broadcast networks millions, and millions, and...

I have an article in the American Spectator today called "ACORN's Stimulus." Here are the top three paragraphs: With a new president ensconced in the White House, it's time to roll out the goodies for loyal supporters in left-of-center political advocacy groups such as ACORN. The latest economic stimulus bill promises to do just that by providing a huge bailout --up to $5.2 billion in taxpayer funds -- for some of the same liberal groups that helped get Barack Obama elected. The three relevant fiscal provisions are buried deep in the $825 billion monstrosity known as the proposed "American Recovery...