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Train Drain

…short, this is a story of what happens when you deregulate an essential infrastructure, allow its managers to extract monopoly prices from captive customers, and then let assorted wolves of…

Paul Volcker Feb.20

…incentives were not well-designed, so let’s have some stable, strong banking institutions responsible for the backbone of the infrastructure, the payment system, clearing arrangements, [those kinds] of things. Let’s prohibit…

The mindless canard stating as unexplained fact that it would be worse to expand the federal government by a third in order to accommodate single-payer healthcare insurance than it is to have private, for-profit health insurance companies playing this role instead

…health plan, make public universities free, expand Social Security, spend big on infrastructure, create universal child-care and pre-K programs, provide federal jobs for young people and bail out struggling pension…

Claiming a Golden Age

…directly check market power and hold industry accountable. On jobs, the president boasted that nearly “100 percent” of new jobs have been created in the private sector. And the label on the…

Politically Feasible Stimulus

infrastructure, particularly transportation projects, is also under discussion. But it would be easier for a package composed purely of tax cuts to “avoid the stain of a ‘bailout’ or ‘stimulus’…