Obama To Focus On Cutting Deficit In 2010, State Of The Union
President Barack Obama plans to announce in next year's State of the Union address that he wants to focus extensively on cutting the federal deficit i...
President Barack Obama plans to announce in next year's State of the Union address that he wants to focus extensively on cutting the federal deficit i...
wsj.com | By DEBORAH SOLOMON and JONATHAN WEISMAN | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics
The Obama administration, under pressure to show it is serious about tackling the budget deficit, is seizing on an unusual target to showcase fiscal r...
New York Times | Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics
The consensus among economists is that the recession is over, and, technically, the herd is probably right. Corporate profitability has been boosted b...
Capital Gains and Games | Stan Collender | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics
Despite the headlines and the page-one, right-hand column, above-the-fold stories in the New York Times and Washington Post on Saturday, I'm not at al...
Tony Blankley | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics
The greatest systemic risk to our economy is not Wall Street. It's the growing federal debt being enacted by those Washington politicians -- the ones who want to protect us from Wall Street.
Rep. Jason Chaffetz | Posted 10.01.2009 | Politics
Contrary to what some have told us in the past, deficits and debts do matter, and at the levels these debts have been accumulating, they matter a lot.
Michael Pento | Posted 09.22.2009 | Business
While the private sector gets its finances in order, the Federal government is increasing its debt at a 28.2% annual rate. And all this borrowing and spending is taking its toll on our currency.
Byron Williams | Posted 09.20.2009 | Politics
Republicans have magically rediscovered their concern for fiscal discipline that lay dormant when they were the party that controlled the White House and Capitol Hill for six of the past eight years.
AP | MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 11.11.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — The federal deficit surged higher into record territory in August, hitting $1.38 trillion with one month left in the budget year. ...
Patricia DeGennaro | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
Congress seems to be stuck in some partisan twilight zone unwilling to get out of their comfortable bickering and get to work for the American people not themselves.
AP | CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER | Posted 09.24.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — Get ready to hear a lot of huge numbers Tuesday: The Obama administration is expected to boost its estimate of the federal deficit ...
nytimes.com | WARREN E. BUFFETT | Posted 09.19.2009 | Business
IN nature, every action has consequences, a phenomenon called the butterfly effect. These consequences, moreover, are not necessarily proportional. Fo...
Gary S. Chafetz | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics
Private health-insurance and pharmaceutical industry lobbyists are threatening the health and stability of America. Some argue that this is equivalent to crimes against humanity.
Deane Waldman | Posted 09.05.2009 | Politics
Do not accept the glowing rhetoric of the Bill's advocates or the equally passionate bombast of its opponents. Put aside your personal animus toward who is speaking for or against AAHCA.
Yahoo! News | Posted 07.24.2009 | Business
TOKYO (Reuters) -- Moody's Investors Service said on Tuesday that the U.S. government's triple-A credit rating was safe but added that it could be at ...
AP | MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 07.11.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — The federal budget deficit soared to a record for May of $189.7 billion, pushing the tide of red ink close to $1 trillion with four...
Ben Cohen | Posted 12.21.2008 | Politics
If you thought the $700 billion bailout was bad, think again. The Federal Reserve is apparently handing out two trillion dollars in loans and it won't disclose where the money is going to.
Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson | Posted 12.14.2008 | Politics
Many American have no idea how long the country has been running deficits and they may not have all the numbers at their fingertips, but the general drift has not escaped them.
Stephanie Neely | Posted 12.08.2008 | Chicago
Another flat-screen television made in Asia or a new pair of designer shoes made in Europe will not prevent another bridge from collapsing in Minnesota.
Arlene M. Roberts | Posted 11.28.2008 | Business
The message was that we could have it all without sacrifice. 2003's "guns and butter and tax cuts" trumped the 1960's mere "guns and butter."
Alan Fein | Posted 11.13.2008 | Business
In bad times like these, the government has to spend money to build things that we desperately need: roads, bridges, schools, courthouses, sanitation systems and a new energy infrastructure.
Harold Pollack | Posted 10.16.2008 | Business
Whatever you may hear, the system is in remarkably good shape these days, even as everything else seems headed to hell in a hand basket. Today is a great day to remember how terrific Social Security really is.
AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 10.10.2008 | Business
WASHINGTON — The federal government will run a near-record deficit of $407 billion this year, according to the latest Capitol Hill estimates. T...
Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson | Posted 10.10.2008 | Business
Rather than facing a $200 billion deficit to do something really important, the U.S. is now heading toward a whopping $10 trillion dollar debt.
Politico | Mike Allen and Jim Vandehei | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics