This is my attempt to build a detailed outline of the economic speech President Obama gave in Cleveland yesterday. The prior post is a much shorter outline than this one.
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President Obama's Cleveland economy speech – high-level outline
15 June 2012 
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This is my attempt to outline President Obama’s economic speech, given yesterday in Cleveland. This is a super short high-level outline. The following post is a much more detailed outline.
Read more The President repeats the “blank check for autos” falsehood
27 January 2012 Comments Off
The Bush-era loans were not a blank check, and not a “straightforward bailout.” President Obama was wrong when he said they were.
Read more PolitiFact rates WH COS Rahm Emanuel’s statement False.
21 June 2010 1 Comment
PolitiFact rated Mr. Emanuel’s claim about the Bush policy False.
Read more Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel's auto breakdown
20 June 2010 11 Comments
White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel’s claim that the Bush Administration “wrote a check [to GM and Chrysler] without asking for any conditions of change” is provably incorrect.
Read more Oil spill crisis as opportunity
16 June 2010 18 Comments
It appears the President will attempt to use the oil spill crisis as an opportunity to enact cap-and-trade legislation which otherwise has almost no chance of becoming law.
Read more Cliff Notes: The President's Carnegie Mellon economic speech
7 June 2010 5 Comments
I attempt to summarize the President’s 5,000+ word economic speech last week at Carnegie Mellon University.
Read moreNot a blank check
20 August 2009 11 Comments
Here’s the President on the Michael Smerconish radio show today: THE PRESIDENT: The auto interventions weren’t started by me — they were started by a conservative Republican administration. The only thing that we did was rather than just write GM and Chrysler a blank check, we said, you know what, if you’re going to get […]
Read more The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission
16 July 2009 42 Comments
Yesterday Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) appointed me to be a member of a new Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission.
Read more Six month economic policy status update
7 July 2009 24 Comments
Sometimes it helps to zoom way out. Here is a summary I would give to someone who had missed the past six months, including the good, the bad, the non-existent, the uncertain, and the too-soon-to-tell.
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