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by Brian Barry The electoral map, the demographics behind President Barack Obama’s re-election and the high-end tax increases that were just wrung from the Republicans give Democrats reason to believe that long-term political trends are on their side in budget negotiations. This view, however, ignores what is happening at the state level. Read article> 

See a discussion of the IGM economic experts panel, examining how much economists agree and disagree on major issues and comparing economists’ views with those of the general public. This video features original research by Gordon Dahl and Roger Gordon from the University of California at San Diego and Paola Sapienza (Kellogg) and Luigi Zingales […] 

This week’s IGM Economic Experts Panel statement:

The federal government would make the average U.S. citizen better off by using policies that directly focus more on increasing small business growth than growth of economic output overall.