Washington Post Maintains Campaign on the Deficit

The Washington Post is continuing its drumbeat for deficit reduction devoting an entire article to the views of the business lobby without ever presenting the possibility that their claims may not be accurate. In fact the piece explicitly endorsed the business perspective wrongly warning readers in the first sentence that the deficit deal "won’t unlock investment."

This assertion can easily be shown to be wrong since fans of Commerce Department data know that investment is not "locked." In fa...