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The eurocrisis fully exposes the folly of deficit mania in a time of recession. So why are the GOP candidates still oblivious?

How the 99 percent won in the hottest election of 2011.

After months of political upheaval and chaos in the bond markets, few investors believe austerity programs are a route to growth and debt reduction.

If all underwater mortgages were written down to market value and refinanced, it would add $71 billion a year to the economy and create 1 million jobs.

A powerful, bipartisan coalition of deficit hawks has manufactured a center-right consensus that dominates the Beltway.

The GOP declares Keynesianism dead, but it hasn’t really been tried. The great economist would have us do much more than “prime the pump” to pull the country out of this morass.

Only the deepest cuts in the country will satisfy this crowd. Will the treatment kill the patient?

Instead of cutting benefits for the poor, how about taxing the total household wealth of the rich?

Introducing the Republican Party's rising stars.