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Fiscal Responsibility

America Needs a New Political Party

Jeffrey E. Schwarz | Posted 05.01.2013 | Politics
Jeffrey E. Schwarz

The two-party system has a long history in America, but is no longer serving the interests of our country.

Sequestration Puts Children at Risk

Michael Piraino | Posted 05.01.2013 | Impact
Michael Piraino

Sequestration is a scary word. Outside of Washington, D.C., it has the sense of seizing property or isolating juries. But the D.C. definition -- a general cut in funding -- carries a real likelihood of danger. Danger to children.

The GOP Congressional Circus

Chris Williams | Posted 03.04.2013 | Politics
Chris Williams

Averting this "fiscal cliff" is the least of our issues. The incessant juvenile tactics being performed on a daily basis by the GOP need to end once and for all.

A Lesson in Accountability as U.S. Goes Over Fiscal Cliff

John Friedman | Posted 03.03.2013 | Politics
John Friedman

We're so busy expressing outrage and pointing fingers that we are not accepting responsibility for our own part in reelecting the same fiscal-cliff-creating, legislation-stalling, economy-risking people that we gave the lowest approval rate in history.

Adopting a Policy of "Peace through (Economic) Strength"

Edward Headington | Posted 02.27.2013 | Los Angeles
Edward Headington

We cannot tax cut our way to prosperity any more than we can tax and spend our way into fiscal nirvana. It requires a balanced approach of sensible spending cuts, substantive entitlement reforms and negotiated tax increases.

Fiscal Cliff: Let's Call Their Bluff!

Ellen Brown | Posted 02.18.2013 | Politics
Ellen Brown

Slashing services, selling off public assets, and raising taxes won't cure these ills. To maintain a sustainable and productive economy requires a visionary leap into the new. A new economy needs new methods of public financing.

Our Fiscal Soul and the Arithmetic of Protecting the Poor

Jim Wallis | Posted 02.05.2013 | Politics
Jim Wallis

The discussion we are having about "the fiscal cliff" is really a debate about our fiscal soul. What kind of nation do we want to be? We do need a path to fiscal sustainability, but will it include all of us -- especially the most vulnerable?

Fiscal Cliff: Two American Values Are Tested

Hal Donahue | Posted 01.27.2013 | Politics
Hal Donahue

All is far from lost but we approach a junction. The fiscal cliff offers a transition point. Will America confront the challenges facing her and the need for change?

Will the Public Buy Into a Budget Deal -- and What Questions Will They Have?

Scott Bittle | Posted 01.15.2013 | Politics
Scott Bittle

America's leaders have some tough days ahead, and honestly, we wish them well. But even with all they have to do, we hope they will invest some time thinking about how to help typical citizens understand the choices our country faces.

The Prerequisite of the Common Good

Jim Wallis | Posted 01.08.2013 | Politics
Jim Wallis

The results of the presidential election showed how dramatically a very diverse America is changing; people are longing for a vision of the common good that includes everyone.

Debts and Indebtedness in Anthropological Fieldwork

American Anthropological Association | Posted 12.17.2012 | Home
American Anthropological Association

I'm writing about indebtedness today because I'm in serious debt to the people of Nepal. They had to feed me, teach me how to behave, and rescue me from baby cows for over a year.

Critical Musings on the RNC From a Tampa Resident

Gary Stein | Posted 11.04.2012 | Politics
Gary Stein

The buses have finally left, the barricades are being sent to wherever they came from, and Tampa is getting back to normal, whatever that is. I took ...

The New York Times and the Causes of the Income Slump

Jared Bernstein | Posted 10.22.2012 | Business
Jared Bernstein

As much as I like to point out that GW Bush's fiscal policy is a key factor in our past, current, and future budget deficits, the fact is that after-tax median household income has grown considerably faster than pretax over the recent slumpy period.

To Beat Romney-Ryan, Obama Must Embrace Bowles-Simpson

Ben Ritz | Posted 10.13.2012 | College
Ben Ritz

Paul Ryan's whole argument has been that "at least he has a plan." If Obama offers a plan to save Medicare and Social Security from themselves, create a better tax code, and balance the budget, Ryan's entire appeal would fall apart.

Mitt Romney's Desperate VP Choice

Dr. Maya Rockeymoore | Posted 10.11.2012 | Politics
Dr. Maya Rockeymoore

You have to wonder about the level of Mitt Romney's desperation to select Representative Paul Ryan as his running mate.

On 'Mad Men,' Past is Prologue

Dr. Maya Rockeymoore | Posted 10.02.2012 | Entertainment
Dr. Maya Rockeymoore

While the show is set in the 1960s, we could imagine what its storyline would look like if written for today's era.

12 Reasons Why Mitt Romney Would Not Make a Good President

John F. Ince | Posted 09.24.2012 | Politics
John F. Ince

The country needs someone to lead forcefully and inspire citizens to tackle problems that threaten the diminishment of American stature on the world stage

State Budget Crisis Must Be Addressed, Before It's Too Late

Richard Ravitch | Posted 09.16.2012 | Politics
Richard Ravitch

The existing trajectory of state spending, taxation and administrative practices cannot be sustained. The basic problem is not cyclical, it is structural. The time to act is now.

Jennifer Bendery

Jay Carney: Don't 'Buy Into The B.S.' From GOP About Obama's Spending Record

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 05.23.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- White House Press Secretary Jay Carney had some advice for reporters on Wednesday when it comes to covering President Barack Obama's rec...

Looking Over the Cliff

Jared Bernstein | Posted 07.23.2012 | Politics
Jared Bernstein

Let's talk about the fiscal cliff -- you know, the one everyone's all wound up about? Well, the Congressional Budget Office just released their analysis of its potential impact on the economy and it ain't pretty. Add up all the stuff that's scheduled to turn into fiscal pumpkins at midnight on December 31, and you could get a serious impact on the economy. Unemployment would reverse course and start rising if that fiscal scenario remained in place -- but that's a big, important "if." All of the estimates assume we go off the cliff and don't climb back. But if, as Gail Collins imagines it, there's a bungee jump instead of a cliff dive, we can avoid the worst of this. One hopes that Congress can hammer the kind of compromise that has eluded them thus far -- the one that adds tax revenues to any agreement -- before the end of the year, or early next.

A Bold New Attack on the Alzheimer's Scourge

Michael Hodin | Posted 05.16.2012 | Healthy Living
Michael Hodin

What if a preeminent global health authority declared there's a public health "time bomb" among us? What if he were the person most responsible for leading the coalition that turned HIV/AIDS from a certain death sentence into a manageable illness?

The Purple Tax Plan

Laurence J. Kotlikoff | Posted 04.08.2012 | Politics
Laurence J. Kotlikoff

The Purple Tax Plan is a simple, transparent, efficient, and progressive tax system. It will help the economy save, grow, produce jobs, and deliver higher wages.

Why I'm Running for President

Laurence J. Kotlikoff | Posted 04.03.2012 | Politics
Laurence J. Kotlikoff

We need fundamental structural reforms of our fiscal and financial institutions to preclude such draconian measures and protect our children from an economic future we would not seek for ourselves.

Ann Brenoff

Should You Date Someone Who's Filed For Bankruptcy?

HuffingtonPost.com | Ann Brenoff | Posted 05.14.2012 | Fifty

When a large corporation files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, it's business as usual without a cloud of taint hanging overhead. If anything, the corporati...

Mitt Romney As Undercover Boss

Rob Taub | Posted 02.07.2012 | Politics
Rob Taub

If President Obama really wants to understand our frustration with government, he should send some cabinet members to work incognito at various government agencies, like on the television show, Undercover Boss.