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Fiscal Folly
We need more deficit spending on public investment and jobs now, then deficit reduction once recovery comes.
February 5, 2010 | By Robert Kuttner
American Taliban
The marriage between religious fundamentalism and market conservatism is as strong as ever.
February 1, 2010 | By Robert Kuttner 
Playing Ourselves for Fools
The trading system America sold the world is killing U.S. industry. Here's a better way.
January 25, 2010 | By Robert Kuttner
A Teachable Collapse
When it comes to understanding Wall Street, we need both narratives that show how it failed and analysis that makes clear there were alternatives.
January 7, 2010 | By Robert Kuttner
Wall Street Meets Its Match
If Congress ends up with effective financial regulation, Sen. Maria Cantwell will deserve a lot of the credit.
November 30, 2009 | By Robert Kuttner
Harry, Louise, and Barack
Instead of being a big winner politically for Obama, industry-dictated health reform will be a political wash, at best.
October 27, 2009 | By Robert Kuttner
Decent Work
How government can get back on the side of promoting good jobs.
September 21, 2009 | By Robert Kuttner
States of Distress
A second stimulus could help states avoid layoffs, program cuts, and tax hikes.
August 27, 2009 | By Robert Kuttner
New Abuses in Old Forms
Big private-equity companies, which are largely unregulated, are hungry to take over failed banks.
August 13, 2009 | By Robert Kuttner | web only
Reforming Credit
Our financial system needs to work for consumers at all income levels. A guide to the crisis, its causes, and cures.
August 3, 2009 | By Robert Kuttner
Debating the Public Option
The three founders of the Prospect discuss the perils and promise of a public-insurance option.
June 29, 2009 | By Paul Starr, Robert B. Reich and Robert Kuttner | web only
Five Questions We Should Ask About Financial Oversight
Strengthening regulation is only the beginning.
June 10, 2009 | By Robert Kuttner | web only
The Devil Is in the Health Care Reform Details
If Obama is not careful, he could end up with reform that is worse than the current system.
June 5, 2009 | By Robert Kuttner | web only
Betting the Fed
The Federal Reserve is a hugely powerful yet unaccountable institution. Will its activism bring a backlash?
June 1, 2009 | By Robert Kuttner
Tough Love for Obama
Can Obama's supporters save him from his economic advisers?
May 26, 2009 | By Robert Kuttner
A Stalled Counterrevolution
The finger-pointing for the economic crisis is in full force. In this review: Revisionism, I-Told-You-So-ism, human psychology, and a historical perspective.
May 8, 2009 | By Robert Kuttner
The Radical Minimalist
Obama's regulatory czar, Cass Sunstein, has a complex faith in market initiatives. But sometimes a "nudge" is not enough.
April 14, 2009 | By Robert Kuttner
Ten Radical Remedies America Needs
Obama must use his leadership to make necessary radical ideas mainstream. These changes are essential if we are to build an economy of broad prosperity.
March 24, 2009 | By Robert Kuttner | web only
Slouching Towards Solvency
Obama's real economic challenge is to minimize exotic securitization and to regulate the shadow banking system.
March 23, 2009 | By Robert Kuttner
How Obama Should Approach the G-20
President Barack Obama's first international conference is less than two weeks away, and the stakes could not be higher.
March 18, 2009 | By Robert Kuttner | web only
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 Robert Kuttner is co-founder and co-editor of The American Prospect magazine, as well as a Distinguished Senior Fellow of the think tank Demos. He was a longtime columnist for Business Week, and continues to write columns in the Boston Globe. He is the author of Obama's Challenge and other books.
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