White House Confirms Continued Trillion-Dollar Budget Deficits
The White House today released its updated federal budget projections. By releasing the report late on a Friday afternoon—a longtime Washington tradition for stories that… Read More
The White House today released its updated federal budget projections. By releasing the report late on a Friday afternoon—a longtime Washington tradition for stories that… Read More
After months of inactivity, the Senate could finally address the death tax in the coming days. It is about time it acted, because in a… Read More
In the past few months, the Senate has made several attempts to extend the Medicaid bailout included in the stimulus package. States share the cost… Read More
Despite fears of how President Obama’s moratorium on deepwater drilling will devastate the Gulf Coast economy, the Administration’s lawyers claim that the damage to the… Read More
The June jobs report is not a happy one as we head into the holiday weekend. Private-sector hiring is still weak, at less than 100,000… Read More
An old saying applicable to dysfunctional organizations is that the right hand doesn’t know what the left hand is doing. The President and Congress have… Read More
On June 17, Vice President Joe Biden crashed the daily White House press briefing to kick off the Obama administration’s “Recovery Summer,” a six-week-long campaign… Read More
Carnegie Mellon University economics professor and American Enterprise Institute visiting scholar Allan Meltzer has a must read op-ed in today’s Wall Street Journal titled: Why… Read More
Last week, George Mason University economics professor Daniel Klein wrote a Wall Street Journal op-ed summarizing an study he did for Econ Journal Watch: “Who… Read More
Friday brought yet another grim jobs report. The economy created 431,000 jobs in May according to the report, but 411,000 of them were temporary government… Read More