America’s Sensible Stance on Recovery
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on July 20th, 2010 4:32 am by HL
America’s Sensible Stance on Recovery
Larry Summers, Financial Times
Economic commentators are mired in an unhelpful dialectic between “jobs” and “deficits” that, despite its apparent simplicity, has obscured rather than clarified the policy choices ahead in the US, Europe and elsewhere.Critics have complained that the continued commitment by the administration of President Barack Obama to support recovery in the short term and also to reduce deficits in the medium and long term constitutes a “mixed message”. In fact, it is the only sensible course in an economy facing the twin challenges of…
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Mark Penn, Politico
In Colorado, Reflections of an Anxious Electorate
Susan Page, USA Today
Meet Lesley Hollywood, stay-at-home mom turned kingmaker.Thirty years old and new to politics, she has in short order become director of the Northern Colorado Tea Party and state coordinator of the national Tea Party Patriots, leading some of the had-it-up-to-here conservatives who have flipped the Senate race in this swing state upside down.Now the “Tea Party”-favored candidate in the Aug. 10 Republican primary, Weld County District Attorney Ken Buck, has gone from long shot to front-runner in his race against former lieutenant governor Jane Norton, who is backed by the…
