EconomyCommentary
This week, a rare bipartisan majority in the House approved a $1.1 trillion stopgap spending measure that will keep the government funded through Dec. 11…. Read More
EconomyCommentary
Yesterday evening, the House of Representatives released its stopgap spending measure which blindly continues the bloated spending in the January omnibus bill that included special-interest… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Congress has just returned from a 5-week recess to a lot of unfinished business—it has yet to send even one of the 12 spending bills… Read More
EconomyCommentary
You may have heard pundits time and time again dismiss America’s debt problem, touting that the deficit has fallen by 50 percent since 2009. Yet… Read More
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Taxpayers in Alaska who enjoy keeping their money will be happy to see a new report that claims the country’s 49th state is best able… Read More
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Thursday’s headline in the Los Angeles Times — “Argentina Defaults on International Debt” — spooked me, as it did investors. The stock market tanked on… Read More
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“They need to recharge their batteries for another year of gridlock.” >>> How Gridlock Is Stopping Congress From Making a Better Federal Budget
EconomyCommentary
Today the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its 2014 Long-Term Budget Outlook, projecting U.S. spending, taxes, deficits, and the debt for the next 25 years…. Read More
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Last week, Senate Appropriations Chair Barbara A. Mikulski, D-Md., signaled her chamber already has begun to lay the groundwork for an omnibus budget bill in… Read More
Economy News
In asking for $3.7 billion from Congress yesterday to combat the border crisis, President Obama attached another request that has nothing to do with illegal… Read More
