David Coates

Archive for July, 2010

July 24, 2010

The Twenty Reports of Elizabeth Warren

Reports have circulated widely this week about unease in senior administration and Democratic Party circles – unease about the possibility of Elizabeth Warren heading the new Consumer Financial Protection Agency. read more »
July 18, 2010

The Inmates and the Asylum: The Madness of Cutting Deficits in the Depth of a Recession

(co-authored with Donald Frey) You might think, might you not, that policy-makers and those advising them are intelligent and caring human beings? Well, we are beginning to wonder whether in fact they are. We are beginning to wonder whether the intelligent ones really care, or if those who care are really intelligent. read more »
July 2, 2010

Moderate Republicans, Going South

Most things that were true in 2006 are still true in 2010. They are in life in general, and they are in the area of immigration reform. On the latter, if we take 2010 and compare it to 2006, what do we find? read more »