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Jeff Madrick

Jeff Madrick, a former economics columnist for Harper’s and The New York Times, is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books and the editor of Challenge magazine. His books include “The End of Affluence,” “Age of Greed” and “Taking America.”

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Stop listening to these clowns: Economists’ bad ideas have been damaging our economy for years

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Why are we so afraid of a comprehensive jobs plan?

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Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Elmendorff (Jonathan Ernst / Reuters)

Congressional Budget Office blows it — again

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Janet Yellen at Fed would help workers

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Lawrence Summers (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Milton Friedman as Fed chair

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Social Security cuts are inexcusable

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Obama’s senseless Social Security cuts

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Government has no fixed size

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The Simpson-Bowles consensus makes no sense

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Obama’s biggest challenge: Job creation

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Sandy: Proof positive government aid matters

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Obama’s still vulnerable on the economy

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Mitt’s 47 percent attack: 100 percent wrong

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Forget Rand and Reagan

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“Romney Hood” recalls Reagan

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“Teach America: Government can work”

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Bush’s dirty little secret

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Clueless George

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Long live big government!

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