EconomyCommentary
U.S. government spending on public relations campaigns, including NASA’s Green Ninja videos on global warming and the Pajama Boy ads for Obamacare, should raise serious questions… Read More
EconomyCommentary
The fact that the national debt jumped by $1.4 trillion in one short year should spur Congress to put an end to this excess. The… Read More
EconomyCommentary
When confronted in the final presidential debate with the assertion that each of their plans would increase the national debt, the candidates denied it by… Read More
EconomyCommentary
New numbers on federal spending are in from the Congressional Budget Office, and they’re not pretty. The federal government spent $3.9 trillion in fiscal 2016,… Read More
EconomyCommentary
$5.6 trillion. That’s how much a recent report from the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC, estimates state and local governments across the U.S. have… Read More
Economy Commentary
The House and Senate budget committees have held hearings suggesting an openness to a budget commission to help fix our fiscal woes. Budget experts have… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Congress is up to no good. Lawmakers passed a continuing resolution before the end of the fiscal year that will fund the government only until… Read More
EconomyNews
A government watchdog found that over the last decade, annual government spending on public relations and advertising activities averages $1.5 billion. The Government Accountability Office… Read More
EconomyNews
After less than two years in Congress, Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga., thinks he’s figured out what’s needed to fix the cumbersome way lawmakers fund the… Read More
EconomyNews
Hours after the Senate passed a stopgap spending measure to keep the federal government running, Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, logged onto Facebook to record a… Read More
