Robert Kuttner
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Founder/editor @theprospect. FB https://t.co/HvlrHzoiAp @HuffPost. NEW: Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism? https://t.co/zSxjkCnc7W…
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Joined October 2011
Why does anyone take @LHSummers seriously? He keeps getting the numbers wrong. (Maybe because corporate elites like the message to cut wages?).
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Today on TAP: Once again, he doesn’t check his facts and gets inflation wrong.
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For the third time (1929, 2008, and now) we are learning that low interest rates and rampant market speculation create crashes.
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Today on TAP: What it means for the real economy and the fortunes of Democrats
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The 2022 midterm does not have to be a wipeout. Trump is the Dems' secret weapon
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Standard political history may not be a good guide to 2022.
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Student debt cancellation could make Biden a hero. Why is he going small when he could go big?
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Today on TAP: Why does Joe Biden keep dithering on student debt cancellation?
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Adminstration infighting continues over pitch to cut strategic tariffs on Chinese goods as inflation-fighting measure. The impact would be trivial. It's a ploy from the usual free-trade suspects.
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Today on TAP: Some in the administration are again pushing for tariff cuts. Their approach is bad economics and worse politics.
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Speaking at Brandeis tonight on my new book, GOING BIG. Here's the link to watch remote.
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Please join Heather McGhee and me at 1pm today for a zoom conversation on my new book, GOING BIG, on how the Dems can recoup and defeat impending fascism.
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My first book event for GOING BIG will be at the Prospect offices this evening at 5:30. Here's the link to watch it remote.
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New book: GOING BIG: FDR's Legacy, Biden's New Deal and the Struggle to Save Democracy. Available to order now.
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New Book! GOING BIG: FDR's Legacy, Biden's New Deal and the Struggle to Save Democracy. Join our book launch event next Monday at 5:30 on YouTube:
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Thank you, Donald, for those goofy endorsements that split your party and help Democrats.
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Today on TAP: Will Trump’s endorsement of J.D. Vance help Ohio’s hedge-fund hillbilly—or sink him?
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If Kyle Rittenhouse is the new face of the GOP, that's a gift for Democrats. And the verdict in the Arbery case demonstrates that even in the rural south, racist vigilantes can be brought to justice.
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White House is making progress clearing the supply chain mess at the ports. The economists who blame the price pressures on public investments are ignorant. Nobody should be allowed to do macro without studying institutions first.
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A deeper cure will take years, but Biden is finding creative ways to get things unstuck.
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RT @fstockman: I appreciate the discussion generated by my piece on the #WTO. Trade is complicated, so ordinary people rarely engage on the….
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Fixing the global trading system means first coming to grips with why it is broken.
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Expect a resurgence of emergency bipartisanship. With Trump gone, Republican senators will want relief for suffering constituents. Watch for a quiet GOP Caucus revolt against the obstruction of Mitch McConnell.
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Will progressive candidates for top economic posts, Jared Bernstein and Heather Boushey, get big-footed by Biden insiders? Watch out as the number of major, unfilled posts dwindles?
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It’s a game of musical chairs—with sharp elbows and not enough slots.
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my colleague Dayen is being polite. Jonathan Guyer's deeply reported piece on WestExec broke this story in the Prospect.
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Strategic consultants will define Biden’s relationship to the world.
I prefer to say that Politico is amplifying and enhancing our reporting here. The takeaway is that anyone from WestExec going into the administration has to disclose their client list. That should be a hard demand.
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At USTR, Rahm could do far more damage. Rahm is deceiving himself if he thinks progressives are not keeping close watch on USTR.
Following progressive backlash against reports that Rahm Emanuel was being considered for transportation secretary, Joe Biden may now be considering the former Chicago mayor for the somewhat less visible position of U.S. trade representative.
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Biden is considering not one but two deficit hawks to run OMB at a time when we need massive public investment. Decision expected before Thanksgiving. Joe: spare us these turkeys!
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There is a big risk that he will—at a time when we need massive public investment.
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