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More and more economists are arguing that a global financial crisis isn't the time to worry about the federal deficit.

My co-author Jean Johnson and I are glad to see this wire story about the NYC National Debt Clock running out of digits, because we were afraid it would pass without comment, given the global financial crisis.

The Wall Street bailout is giving a lot of people a dose of cold fiscal reality – but you wouldn't know it to listen to Barack Obama and John McCain. And a great way to see this refusal to face fiscal facts in action is to watch Public Agenda's comments on the Blogging the Debates project.

A new study shows that the public is capable of facing facts about the nation's fiscal problems – which is a good thing, because they're probably going to have to take a big bite of a reality sandwich in the coming week.

It would be impossible to commence this edition of the Facing Up BlogWatch without mentioning Public Agenda's insanely i