Where the Rs and Ds Agree

Annie Lowry has a nice blogpost in the Economix section of the NYT listing some of the areas where Republicans and Democrats seem to largely agree (meaning the leadership, not the base). I'd agree with her list and add a few more items.

Both parties seem to agree on an uncompetitive dollar, having the Fed and Treasury maintain the dollar at a level that prices U.S. goods out of many markets. The result is a large trade deficit (currently around 4 percent of GDP or $600 billion a year) and the...