Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Budget Links

-President Obama introduced the new budget yesterday.

-The Atlantic breaks down the winners and losers

-So does Politico

-here's a cool interactive graphic of the amounts that go to all different categories of expenditures

-The NY Times thinks that the mounting debt will shift America's place in the world and, eventually, shift our political climate

-Jon Stewart talks with White House Economist Austan Goolsbee, on "the day the budget drops."  Goolsbee says some of the criticism of Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner has been unfair and that we have no choice but to run a deficit until we get out of the recession.

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