Diane Lim R. posted an article on EconomistMom - Nov 9, 2009, 9:58 pm
Have you ever thought you could be WAY more fiscally responsible than our politicians are?  Go ahead and test yourself on the Concord Coalition’s new online version of our “Principles and...
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Diane Lim R. posted an article on EconomistMom - Nov 8, 2009, 10:09 pm
The Washington Post’s Alec MacGillis asks a rather provocative question in today’s Outlook section: “Why won’t Obama give you a job?” The article challenges the Administ...
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Diane Lim R. posted an article on EconomistMom - Nov 7, 2009, 8:25 pm
In his Forbes column this week, Bruce Bartlett explains how to set up a deficit-reduction commission who can speak the real truth and thus come up with real solutions.  Bruce’s key recommendati...
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Diane Lim R. posted an article on EconomistMom - Nov 6, 2009, 10:56 pm
I think this is one of the coolest radio interviews I’ve done (click here for the link to the podcast)–not because of anything new I said that I haven’t said a million times before, ...
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Diane Lim R. posted an article on EconomistMom - Nov 5, 2009, 10:24 pm
President Obama’s budget director, Peter Orszag, gave a really nice speech on the economy and fiscal policy this week.  It reinforces my belief that: (1) Peter really doesn’t view the ...
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Diane Lim R. posted an article on EconomistMom - Nov 4, 2009, 9:55 pm
The news tonight (to appear in Thursday’s Washington Post): The Senate voted Wednesday to renew the government’s $8,000 tax credit for first-time home buyers through the first six months ...
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Diane Lim R. posted an article on EconomistMom - Nov 3, 2009, 1:41 pm
Because it usually doesn’t work out so well, as illustrated in this NPR Marketplace video (part of their new “Department of Behavioral Economics”) featuring Marketplace senior editor...
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Diane Lim R. posted an article on EconomistMom - Nov 2, 2009, 9:06 pm
It took me awhile to catch onto this (I guess real life got in the way of reading the legislation or even the revenue estimate carefully), but the House health care reform bill not only fails to provi...
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Diane Lim R. posted an article on EconomistMom - Nov 1, 2009, 9:55 pm
This week’s Economist magazine has a fascinating cover story on the world’s declining fertility rate and what it means for economic growth and the sustainability of the planet more general...
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Diane Lim R. posted an article on EconomistMom - Oct 31, 2009, 1:08 am
My boss, Bob Bixby, wrote up his initial thoughts on the House health reform bill in his usual “prime time” last night–around 3 am.  (And I am finally posting on this after a midnig...
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Diane Lim R. posted an article on EconomistMom - Oct 29, 2009, 3:56 pm
The Bureau of Economic Analysis announced today that our economy might be growing again–for the first time since the second quarter of 2008–and hence that we might be out of this recession...
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Diane Lim R. posted an article on EconomistMom - Oct 28, 2009, 11:32 pm
Wednesday’s Washington Post featured an Ezra Klein column in the FOOD section of the paper (right next to a story on bouillon, no less)!  I love it, because it’s still mostly about budget...
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Diane Lim R. posted an article on EconomistMom - Oct 27, 2009, 10:55 pm
First we heard that estate tax legislation would be considered as early as next week in the House, but tonight Majority Leader Hoyer suggested it could be put off until the very last minute:  up to s...
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Diane Lim R. posted an article on EconomistMom - Oct 26, 2009, 10:55 pm
Today the Chair of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, Christina Romer, delivered these remarks at the Center for American Progress.  (Full text of speech is here.)  Based on the sel...
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Diane Lim R. posted an article on EconomistMom - Oct 25, 2009, 10:56 pm
I didn’t realize that this weekend’s Saturday Night Live was a repeat (of a fairly recent show) until I went looking for the video of this sketch on Russian brides.  Somehow it reminded m...
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Diane Lim R. posted an article on EconomistMom - Oct 23, 2009, 10:57 pm
I’m back in DC after a great trip to Denver with many of my Concord Coalition colleagues.  It’s work trips like that that make me feel so fortunate to have a job that I love so much that ...
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Diane Lim R. posted an article on EconomistMom - Oct 23, 2009, 9:05 am
I’ll write my report on Denver later tonight (am still here in Denver until this afternoon), but I’ve at least got time to mention that at yesterday’s all-day/evening events here, my...
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Diane Lim R. posted an article on EconomistMom - Oct 21, 2009, 7:14 pm
An editorial in today’s Wall Street Journal suggests that the Obama Administration and the Democrats in Congress have come up with a new and clever way to deceive the American public about the c...
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Diane Lim R. posted an article on EconomistMom - Oct 20, 2009, 10:59 pm
I’m on the road for the next few days, traveling to Denver to participate in a Concord-sponsored student summit on fiscal responsibility, “Paying for America,” on Thursday at the Uni...
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Diane Lim R. posted an article on EconomistMom - Oct 19, 2009, 9:31 pm
As we explained in a Concord Coalition press release today: The Senate is expected to consider a bill this week that would permanently increase physician reimbursement rates relative to the current M...
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Diane Lim R. posted an article on EconomistMom - Oct 18, 2009, 7:39 am
I’ve got a contribution to the “Topic A” opinion feature in today’s Washington Post; the question: Should Congress fulfill President Obama’s request for a one-time $250 p...
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Diane Lim R. posted an article on EconomistMom - Oct 17, 2009, 2:22 pm
Today’s headline in the Washington Post:  “Record-High Deficit May Dash Big Plans”–refers primarily to President Obama’s “big plans” for further deficit-fina...
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Diane Lim R. posted an article on EconomistMom - Oct 15, 2009, 8:03 am
Exhibit A:  Congress and the Administration Call for a $250 Payment to Seniors…for What?!! Well, for non-inflation and hence the non-COLA they are getting in their Social Security payments in ...
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Diane Lim R. posted an article on EconomistMom - Oct 15, 2009, 6:02 am
STILL NOT WORKING THURS. 10/15… My spam blocker isn’t working right again (Wed. 10/14), so all comments will be queued up for moderation again until I figure out it’s back to normal...
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Diane Lim R. posted an article on EconomistMom - Oct 13, 2009, 10:58 pm
Bruce Bartlett did a nice job arguing against stuck-in-the-70s Larry Kudlow on CNBC today, in discussing his new book, The New American Economy. (Bruce blogged about the book’s “RIP Suppl...
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Diane Lim R. posted an article on EconomistMom - Oct 12, 2009, 11:41 pm
Last Wednesday at the World Business Forum (where I was a “featured blogger” and where I “tweeted” for the first time) President Bill Clinton was asked during his post-speech c...
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Diane Lim R. posted an article on EconomistMom - Oct 11, 2009, 11:38 am
Saturday’s Washington Post contained this editorial on the false notion that Congress has come up with any plan for health care reform that is truly deficit neutral.  The basic charge:  neithe...
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Diane Lim R. posted an article on EconomistMom - Oct 8, 2009, 11:32 pm
Bruce Bartlett’s new book, The New American Economy: The Failure of Reaganomics and a New Way Forward, comes out next week.  The New York Times’ David Leonhardt wrote a really nice story ...
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Diane Lim R. posted an article on EconomistMom - Oct 7, 2009, 9:22 am
Well, it took a couple months, but those with a stake in health care reform have finally figured out that the idea of an excise tax on insurance companies instead of an any alternative tax on “r...
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Diane Lim R. posted an article on EconomistMom - Oct 7, 2009, 12:29 am
Today (Tuesday) was a real eye-opener for me in terms of seeing all the ways in which the way the federal government conducts its business are totally divorced from the ideas for “good business ...
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Diane Lim R. posted an article on EconomistMom - Oct 6, 2009, 4:57 pm
I’m hearing a lot of fascinating perspectives here at the World Business Forum.  Filmmaker George Lucas is speaking now, but I admit I’m not much of a Star Wars fan, so I wanted to make c...
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Diane Lim R. posted an article on EconomistMom - Oct 4, 2009, 10:13 pm
www.hsmglobal.com I’ll be in NYC this week as one of the featured bloggers at the World Business Forum, where I’m excited to hear speeches from Bill Clinton, Paul Krugman, Jeff Sachs, and...
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Diane Lim R. posted an article on EconomistMom - Oct 2, 2009, 10:55 pm
I wanted to continue my discussion of Wednesday’s Center for American Progress/Center on Budget and Policy Priorities conference on “Progressives and the National Debt” with a recap ...
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Diane Lim R. posted an article on EconomistMom - Oct 1, 2009, 2:44 pm
Yesterday’s conference on “Progressives and the National Debt” was really interesting.  The biggest crowd-drawer seemed to be the session with Nobel-laureate economist Paul Krugman,...
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Diane Lim R. posted an article on EconomistMom - Sep 29, 2009, 11:05 pm
…or not… I’ll hear about it either way today (Wednesday) at an event here in DC called “Progressives and the National Debt” hosted by the Center for American Progress and...
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Diane Lim R. posted an article on EconomistMom - Sep 28, 2009, 6:43 pm
I love, love, love the story on DC public schools chancellor Michelle Rhee in this weekend’s Washington Post Magazine.  The “On Leadership” video interview of her by the Post’...
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Diane Lim R. posted an article on EconomistMom - Sep 26, 2009, 10:55 pm
If you read Bruce Bartlett’s column in Forbes this week, you might think I’ve been passing notes to him under the desks at school.  Bruce explains how the Republicans are just downright s...
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Diane Lim R. posted an article on EconomistMom - Sep 24, 2009, 10:55 pm
Today the House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill to prevent Medicare premiums from rising.  A Congress Daily story explains: House Democrats pushed through the bill to ensure that the...
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Diane Lim R. posted an article on EconomistMom - Sep 23, 2009, 8:53 pm
I’m in Charlottesville, VA tonight having combined a business trip with a campus visit for my oldest daughter, who’s a senior in high school. I’m happy to report (being the Virginia...
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Diane Lim R. posted an article on EconomistMom - Sep 22, 2009, 4:45 pm
The Baucus proposal for health care reform is about to get “modified” in the Senate.  Some politicians would claim “improved”–because they’ll get more of what they...
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Diane Lim R. posted an article on EconomistMom - Sep 21, 2009, 10:40 pm
According to an AP story by Hope Yen, a new Census Department survey (the “American Community Survey”) suggests that a common symptom of this recession is that people are feeling stuckR...
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Diane Lim R. posted an article on EconomistMom - Sep 20, 2009, 8:03 am
Last Thursday, the Congressional Budget Office released a report on “The Economic Effects of Legislation to Reduce Greenhouse-Gas Emissions.” The report attempts to quantify the economic c...
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Diane Lim R. posted an article on EconomistMom - Sep 17, 2009, 10:55 pm
I’m too sleep-deprived to do a careful analysis of the Baucus plan tonight, but as I was reading over the CBO analysis of the proposal, a familiar feeling came over me.  I realized the Senate F...
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Diane Lim R. posted an article on EconomistMom - Sep 16, 2009, 10:28 am
(***UPDATE Friday: My spam blocker is showing a little more life now, so I’m cautiously going to open up unmoderated comments today and just keep checking often. Keeping fingers crossed.) I...
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Diane Lim R. posted an article on EconomistMom - Sep 16, 2009, 12:23 am
I’m on the road again, in Chicago for a couple days, so I thought I’d do an easy post tonight by highlighting Allan Sloan’s very informative column on Social Security in Tuesday̵...
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Diane Lim R. posted an article on EconomistMom - Sep 14, 2009, 9:53 pm
Today I gave a 90-minute talk (well 20-some minutes “presentation” followed by an hour of Q and A) to a group of 20 journalists here for a conference at the University of Maryland’s ...
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Diane Lim R. posted an article on EconomistMom - Sep 13, 2009, 9:54 pm
On Saturday the “Tea Party” movement’s “Taxpayer March on Washington” was held.  According to the Washington Post (emphasis added): Saturday’s throng appeared to ...
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Diane Lim R. posted an article on EconomistMom - Sep 12, 2009, 12:13 am
At the Concord Coalition we’re trying to spread our word more efficiently lately using video technology. Here’s an example–this set of video clips of the “first string” ...
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Diane Lim R. posted an article on EconomistMom - Sep 10, 2009, 12:21 am
Embedded video from <a href=”http://www.cnn.com/video” mce_href=”http://www.cnn.com/video”>CNN Video&a...
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Diane Lim R. posted an article on EconomistMom - Sep 9, 2009, 1:18 pm
Notice I didn’t say “what we want to hear tonight.”  But what we really need to hear is a little honest talk, from our courageous leader.  Talk like… this (from a CNN-Money ...
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