At the end of the year the Washington Post published as "news" a story that pushed the idea of "a special commission to make the tough decisions that will be required to dig the nation out of debt."
Dean Baker | Posted 01.05.2010 | Media
WaPo published as a news story an article by the Peter Peterson Foundation funded "Fiscal Times." This compromised the Post's journalistic integrity to the extent that readers can no longer take it seriously.
Ariel Gonzalez | Posted 01.03.2010 | Politics
Progressives can be as bad as teabaggers, with their chronic dissatisfaction, ideological disdain for compromise, and limited understanding of historical precedent.
Sen. Tom Harkin | Posted 12.30.2009 | Politics
I think of this bill as a starter home. It is not the mansion of our dreams, but it has a solid foundation, giving every American access to quality, affordable coverage.
Robert L. Borosage | Posted 12.29.2009 | Politics
Health care reform suffered the torments of partisan obstruction. Now gird yourself for financial reform and the perils of bipartisan blight.
Leo W. Gerard | Posted 12.28.2009 | Business
It's incredible how much we don't know when it comes to the investment practices and trends that affect workers' retirement assets and other institutional savings.
Dave Johnson | Posted 12.22.2009 | Politics
It is possible that there is going to be a "deficit commission" to reduce our country's budget deficits. I have some questions for them to ask to help get things started in the right direction.
Dean Baker | Posted 12.21.2009 | Business
The quality of the society we pass on to our children is what determines their well being, not the government debt.
Lester Sloan | Posted 01.01.2010 | Impact
Second Baptist Church served as a end-station of the Underground Railroad. The announcement of the pending foreclosure for back taxes was akin to putting an important symbol of Black History on the auction block.
Rupert Russell | Posted 12.21.2009 | Politics
Without bringing the middle class into a new entitlement program, the health reform bill is only going to get worse over time, and not better.
Ashley B. Carson | Posted 12.17.2009 | Impact
If Social Security were a private company, its shareholders would be very pleased, as it ran a surplus of $180 billion last year and accumulated a reserve of $2.4 trillion. This is the only government program to run a surplus.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.16.2009 | Politics
CNN reports today that President Barack Obama is now "seriously considering" using an executive order to spur the creation of that high-toned monument...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.15.2009 | Politics
It's the nattering of the Post's Sudden Deficit Hawks, screeching about how "It's time to stop worrying about the deficit -- and start panicking about the debt."
Roger Hickey | Posted 12.16.2009 | Politics
Hedge fund mogul Peter Peterson and his Commission on Budget Reform are selling an undemocratic new budget process that would take the responsibility for budget-making away from the president and the committees of Congress.
Bella DePaulo | Posted 12.12.2009 | Living
Marriage is not for everyone, and people who want to stay single should not be targeted with singlism because of it.
Auburn McCanta | Posted 12.14.2009 | Politics
From misleading statement to misleading statement, McCain has worked through skewed and downright deceptive talking points on the Senate floor.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.10.2009 | Politics
Congressional creatures have been astir lately, with plans to shift the decision-making process on curbing deficits to a blue-ribbon commission that w...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 12.04.2009 | Business
Ben Bernanke has overseen the greatest expansion of the Federal Reserve's balance sheet in its history, pouring trillions of dollars into Wall Street ...
Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics
A bi-partisan commission that would tame the federal deficit by limiting cost-cutting decisions to a select number of lawmakers is gaining traction in...
New York Times | EDMUND L. ANDREWS | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON -- The United States government is financing its more than trillion-dollar-a-year borrowing with i.o.u.'s on terms that seem too good to be...
Marshall Auerback | Posted 11.17.2009 | Business
The president still seems curiously hamstrung by his Herbert Hoover-like devotion to fiscal rectitude: he wants to spend but not add "one dime to the deficit."
Chris Weigant | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics
No matter what healthcare bill passes, it is not going to remain static. It is going to be revisited again and again over the next few decades. That's how lawmaking works.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics
The deficits! Your Beltway media is sore afraid of them! But like a family who goes to live in a haunted house only to refuse to move out once the a...
usnews.com | Rick Newman | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business
You know about the bailouts, the stimulus plan, cash for clunkers, and moola for mansions. But for all the anxiety they've caused, those government gi...
Aaron E. Carroll | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics
People are saying that health care reform is going to break the bank. No. Health care costs are what might bankrupt us. I am all in favor of reducing those, but railing against the cost of reform while ignoring all the rest is willful ignorance.
Dave Johnson | Posted 01.06.2010 | Media