If the Obama administration follows through on its newly announced effort to identify and weed out unproductive federal ...
While advocates of a federal value-added tax (VAT) point to key benefits for a country struggling with big ...
Deficits remain a big focus in Washington as President Obama, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and members of ...
The Obama administration has announced a very small effort to reduce deficit spending, and yet liberal groups are ...
How large is the federal debt? That's something of a trick question in economic circles, and some analysts ...
Public concern about the nation’s rising debt burden is beginning to have an impact on the legislative agenda. ...
There’s debate over whether the President’s fiscal commission should focus on total federal debt or just the part ...
Below are a few budget items we have been following, since the last edition of the Washington Budget Report (
With pressure mounting to show progress in reining in the nation’s unsustainable structural budget deficit, Social Security reform ...
The President’s fiscal commission is dividing its work among three subgroups that will focus on taxes, discretionary spending, ...
The President’s bipartisan fiscal commission faces a high hurdle. It must find consensus among 14 of its 18 ...
