It's budget week in Washington, and a number of fiscal policy matters will be highlighted. These include a plan to minimize the sequester's impact on farm payments, the president's FY 2014 budget proposal, and a reaction to former Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director David Stockman's op-ed in The New York Times. Let's take a look at them in reverse order, from the broad to the specific, starting with Stockman's comments to set the stage for the budget debate.David Stockman, of course, was a House member from Michigan and President Reagan's OMB director, famous for the "magic asterisk" in fudging budget numbers and for pushing what came to be known as "trickledown economics." He's written another book, "The Great Deformation: The...

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