By Mark Felsenthal WASHINGTON, May 10 (Reuters) - The United States posted a budget surplus for the first time in 42 m...
AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 05.08.2012
(AP/The Huffington Post) The Obama administration saw its first monthly budget surplus in April, with the federal government recording $58 billion, ac...
AP | By BECKY BOHRER | Posted 01.05.2012
JUNEAU, Alaska -- The budget questions that sent Alaska lawmakers into special session this year had nothing to do with austerity measures or disagree...
Dean Baker | Posted 12.03.2011
Please, President Clinton, save some trees. Don't give a half-baked lecture on the virtues of deficit reduction. It is not what the country needs.
Brent Budowsky | Posted 11.04.2011
The day will come when we will know for sure what President Gore would do, when President Gore does it.
New York Times | Paul Krugman | Posted 07.09.2011
The fact is that what we’re experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. The policies that got us into this mess weren’t responses to public dem...
Georges Ugeux | Posted 05.25.2011
China and other foreign countries will not endlessly finance the US budget deficit; China recently sold $34 billion of American treasuries, and now holds less US debt than Japan.
calculatedriskblog.com | Calculated Risk | Posted 05.25.2011
In his 2001 testimony, Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan testified before the House Committee on the Budget, and while offering his usual cautions and cavea...
Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011
While watching President Obama's press conference Tuesday evening, I was struck by a few things that are often forgotten in the criticism of his proposed budget.
Reuters | Posted 05.11.2012