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March 4, 2021
Alex Yablon
The Deficit Hawks That Make Moderate Democrats Cower
Despite decades of being wrong, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget still calls the tune in Washington.
April 23, 2020
Zoë Hu
A New Age of Destructive Austerity After the Coronavirus
The economic vultures of yesteryear are already scheming about how to head off the prospect of a better world when the pandemic ends.
February 6, 2014
Ryan Cooper
The Silence of the Austerians
Here's Why 2014 Could Be the Year America Finally Ditches its Inane Deficit Obsession
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