Rethinking the Economy

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How State Republican Parties Talk about Values & Choice

June 16th, 2010 · Comments Off

I’ve been doing a little thinking about how to talk about values and choice. For the hell of it, I decided to see how Republican Party websites do it. Most of them were cookie-cutter, negative, and pretty boring — cut taxes, cut government regulations, and cut wasteful spending. The Texas Republican Party put a little [...]

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Topos’ Framework: What Works: The Middle Class Is No Accident

March 17th, 2010 · Comments Off

[Part 2 of the Promoting Broad Prosperity review]
Topos’ Promoting Broad Prosperity framework avoids a major problem with my approach. For the past few months, I’ve been focused on understanding how the nuts and bolts of the economy’s engine works. I think I’ve started to figure it out. But I haven’t yet figured out [...]

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Topos’ Framework for Talking about the Economy

March 15th, 2010 · Comments Off

A few months ago, I read a smart research brief Topos wrote for Demos called Promoting Broad Prosperity. Topos has done a ton of surveys, focus groups, etc. to figure out how most Americans think about the government’s role in creating a good economy. They’ve come up with a very interesting approach [...]

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Republicans, Democrats, and “Government”

March 10th, 2010 · Comments Off

Two interesting clips from Rachel Maddow’s show last week on talking about government.
From an attack ad by Republican Sue Lowden, who’s trying to unseat Harry Reid:
Harry Reid‘s big government health care plan will raise taxes, put a bureaucrat between you and your doctor, weaken Medicare, kill jobs, push us further into debt. [...]

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