"SubStack is a great place for writers—if you can stand the fact that SubStack as s corporation is a little too eager to cheer for the right-wing racist grifters who sign up as authors. I think it is worth staying because (a) there is a very good chance that we will be able to keep it from becoming The Nazi Bar,....."
No, I can't stand that they are a "little too eager to cheer right-wing racist grifters." Let Chris Best et al know, unequivocally. Else, there will be exodus.
"They have not had policy analysis or policy design capacity since the end of the Ford administration." Eh, I dunno, isn't the "three legged stool" of Obamacare kind of stolen from what was originally a conservative proposal to try to avoid going to a single-payer system? And it has turned out in practice to be pretty kludgy, but it does seem to have done some real good, and bent the cost curve at least a little. I'm not sure I'd date the outright extinction of conservative policy analysis until around the Romney candidacy, when Romney himself discovered that having presided over a more-successful implementation of a similar health plan in MA was a _liability_ rather than an asset.
IMO, ACA was a money grab. Universal Coverage had nothing to do with the public healthcare coverage and everything to do with Universally covered diseases. No carve-outs. Hence, Big Pharma wins.
I am not sure either side of the isle has had any concern for the public. However both sides of the isle always support national defense. What is really needed is a re-education of the public in the area of government and economics, it’s history, and how we got here. (Kind of what this place does.) From there an educated public can make better informed choices.
Krugman: Ill tempered or scared s___less! :) If the disinflation we have seen is mainly due to un-shocks, we are in BIG trouble. The Fed ought to have been reducing rates and quickly, not just pausing. Let's hope it is supply and demand.
DeLong/Gongloff: We should have had the tax on net CO2 and methane emissions 30 years ago. The composition of each year's public investment/subsidies would of course be vastly different from the IRA. About which, I'm somewhat concerned that the subsidies are given for specific capital expenditures instead of for zero CO2 energy produced or captured. I think the environmental community has not given enough thought to designing second best policies pending better policies becoming politically feasible.
10-year treasuries. With gazillions of investments needed in zero carbon energy, CCS, energy transmission and storage and adaptation, a savings "glut" sounds like a wonderful prospect.
Orzel: There is still the need for conversation withing the Democratic coalition. As an academic, he ought to be a voice for what to DO in the face of "anti-woke" attacks. Pointing out that they are "bad people" (even if they are) is not productive.
"SubStack is a great place for writers—if you can stand the fact that SubStack as s corporation is a little too eager to cheer for the right-wing racist grifters who sign up as authors. I think it is worth staying because (a) there is a very good chance that we will be able to keep it from becoming The Nazi Bar,....."
No, I can't stand that they are a "little too eager to cheer right-wing racist grifters." Let Chris Best et al know, unequivocally. Else, there will be exodus.
"They have not had policy analysis or policy design capacity since the end of the Ford administration." Eh, I dunno, isn't the "three legged stool" of Obamacare kind of stolen from what was originally a conservative proposal to try to avoid going to a single-payer system? And it has turned out in practice to be pretty kludgy, but it does seem to have done some real good, and bent the cost curve at least a little. I'm not sure I'd date the outright extinction of conservative policy analysis until around the Romney candidacy, when Romney himself discovered that having presided over a more-successful implementation of a similar health plan in MA was a _liability_ rather than an asset.
IMO, ACA was a money grab. Universal Coverage had nothing to do with the public healthcare coverage and everything to do with Universally covered diseases. No carve-outs. Hence, Big Pharma wins.
I am not sure either side of the isle has had any concern for the public. However both sides of the isle always support national defense. What is really needed is a re-education of the public in the area of government and economics, it’s history, and how we got here. (Kind of what this place does.) From there an educated public can make better informed choices.
Krugman: Ill tempered or scared s___less! :) If the disinflation we have seen is mainly due to un-shocks, we are in BIG trouble. The Fed ought to have been reducing rates and quickly, not just pausing. Let's hope it is supply and demand.
DeLong/Gongloff: We should have had the tax on net CO2 and methane emissions 30 years ago. The composition of each year's public investment/subsidies would of course be vastly different from the IRA. About which, I'm somewhat concerned that the subsidies are given for specific capital expenditures instead of for zero CO2 energy produced or captured. I think the environmental community has not given enough thought to designing second best policies pending better policies becoming politically feasible.
10-year treasuries. With gazillions of investments needed in zero carbon energy, CCS, energy transmission and storage and adaptation, a savings "glut" sounds like a wonderful prospect.
Orzel: There is still the need for conversation withing the Democratic coalition. As an academic, he ought to be a voice for what to DO in the face of "anti-woke" attacks. Pointing out that they are "bad people" (even if they are) is not productive.