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BusinessWeek
November 22, 2004
Robert Kuttner |
The Budget Mess Bush Can No Longer Ignore The U.S. economy can't grow its way out of such big deficits.   |
Reason
May 2009
Veronique de Rugy |
When Do Deficits Matter? While Democrats and Republicans switch sides regarding deficit spending, economists try to pin down a tipping point. |
BusinessWeek
August 5, 2010
Peter Coy |
The Wisdom and Folly of the Bush Tax Cuts Most economists agree there's little choice but to end tax cuts from George W. Bush's era. That means the fiscal war in Washington is only going to get uglier. |
BusinessWeek
January 24, 2005
Howard Gleckman |
The Beltway Battle Ahead If Bush is willing to deal, he'll have a chance to fix Social Security, say both Democratic and Republican insiders. But he'll need to build bridges with Democrats and sell economic conservatives on compromise. |
Reason
June 2003
Jesse Walker |
Trading Places In matters economic, Democrats are supposed to be the party of big government, Republicans the faction of fiscal and regulatory restraint. But when it comes to the executive branch, the sides seem to have reversed. |
BusinessWeek
May 26, 2011
Drake Bennett |
Grover Norquist, the Enforcer For decades, the Americans for Tax Reform founder has locked in lawmakers to oppose new taxes. The deficit debate is his greatest triumph -- and biggest test. |
BusinessWeek
November 17, 2010
Coy & Przybyla |
Debt and Taxes: Will America Ever Grow Up? Two new proposals to get serious about the U.S. budget deficit are colliding with the same old dysfunctional politics. |
Inc.
July 1, 2003
Bobbie Gossage |
Back to the Future The tax cut makes this Bush look very Reaganesque. |
Financial Advisor
October 2006
Bruce W. Fraser |
Economic Pin Balls As it stands today, Bush's economic legacy is still uncertain. Is Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson, Jr. more than a Hail Mary? |
Reason
Aug/Sep 2001
Michael W. Lynch |
Check's in the Mail How the tax cut went from impossible to inevitable... |
BusinessWeek
February 14, 2005
Howard Gleckman |
The Fog Of The Budget How Bush will mask the biggest national debt in history. |
Reason
January 2009
Matt Welch |
Obama's Numbers The president-elect has promised to make his math add up. Therein lies a glimmer of possibility. |
Salon.com
February 15, 2001
Joan Walsh |
Plutocrats to the rescue! While the spineless Dems dither, the stiffest resistance to Bush's outrageous tax plan comes from an unlikely quarter: Warren Buffett and Bill Gates Sr.... |
Reason
Aug/Sep 2009
Jacob Sullum |
Hawk in Hock: Obama pretends to be frugal as we sink deeper in debt The president wants to signal that he's serious about cutting the federal budget. Unfortunately, his plan hinges on the assumption that Americans do not know how to calculate percentages. |
BusinessWeek
January 19, 2004 |
Bush's Borrowing Is Sapping Our Strength The GOP-led Congressional Budget Office says tax cuts will likely slow growth |
BusinessWeek
July 1, 2010
Berley & Faler |
Spending Big to Stop Big Spending By pledging to spend $1 billion on an anti-deficit crusade, Wall Street financier Pete Peterson is winning converts -- and making some enemies -- for his cause. |
BusinessWeek
June 21, 2004
Michael J. Mandel |
Reaganomics vs. Rubinomics The heavyweight economy policy debate over the past two decades has been Reaganomics vs. Rubinomics. The two philosophies seem to have fought each other to a draw. |
National Defense
July 2012
Sandra I. Erwin |
Pentagon Contractors Reach New Levels of Frustration With Obama White House Over the past nine to 10 months, corporations have begun to lose confidence in government, and executives are faulting the president for not doing more to untangle the current morass that could leave many contractors sinking in the muck. |
Reason
May 2008
Matt Welch |
When Coalitions Dissolve As the GOP breaks apart, some blame the vanishing breed of free market Republicans. |
Registered Rep.
November 1, 2004
David A. Geracioti |
The Great Gray Beast An interview with Peter G. Peterson, author of Gray Dawn: How the Coming Age Wave Will Transform America -- and the World and Running on Empty: How the Democratic and Republican Parties Are Bankrupting Our Future and What Americans Can Do About It, on how the political class is mortgaging America's future. |
BusinessWeek
November 24, 2003
Robert Kuttner |
Harping On The Deficit May Undo The Dems I hope the Democratic candidates for President are in touch with Joseph E. Stiglitz, the 2001 Nobel prize co-winner in economics. Stiglitz has challenged a premise that has become like holy writ: the idea that deficit reductions caused the boom of the 1990s. |
BusinessWeek
April 6, 2011
Przybyla & Armstrong |
The Audacity of Paul Ryan His plan would privatize Medicare, cut taxes, and cap social spending. |
Salon.com
September 4, 2001
Anthony York |
Bring on the budget deficit Robert Reich denounces Democrats' debt-reduction fetish, and compares Al Gore to Calvin Coolidge... |
Reason
June 2009
Veronique de Rugy |
The Age of Debt Barack Obama's first budget promises "fiscal responsibility" but delivers the opposite. |
BusinessWeek
February 16, 2004
Howard Gleckman |
The Budget: Hey Guys, Get Real President Bush says he wants to cut the deficit in half by 2009. Here's why that's not likely to happen. |
Reason
Aug/Sep 2009 |
Letters: When do deficits matter?, hating Milton Friedman... Readers give their opinions on deficits, and the stickers posted around D.C. blaming Milton Friedman for the current economy. |
Reason
November 2008
Veronique de Rugy |
Fear of a Unified Government What happens to federal spending when the Democrats control both Congress and the presidency? |
BusinessWeek
June 9, 2011
Julie Hirschfeld Davis |
Debt Challenge Makes for Two Lonely Republicans As a deadline nears, lawmakers Kevin McCarthy and Tom Coburn urge their colleagues to get serious about the debt |
BusinessWeek
April 13, 2011
Peter Coy |
Washington Plays Chicken With the Debt Forcing a U.S. default is no small matter, yet many Americans say they want just that. It's time for cooler heads on Capitol Hill to step up and lead |
BusinessWeek
August 11, 2003
Laura D'Andrea Tyson |
The Bush Tax Cuts Are Sapping America's Strength The cost is nearly three times as much as the tab from September 11, Afghanistan, Iraq, and homeland security combined. |
Salon.com
August 28, 2000
David Horowitz |
Persuading people you care Republicans need to take a lesson from Bill Clinton and wrap themselves in the flag of the "dispossessed." |
BusinessWeek
October 21, 2010
Heidi Przybyla |
Alice Rivlin's Bid to Cut the Deficit Alice M. Rivlin's shadow commission to trim spending, without any political candidates, goes where the real commission dare not. |
BusinessWeek
July 15, 2010
Ryan Donmoyer |
Brinkmanship Over the Bush Tax Cuts High-income Americans could be the beneficiaries of a looming fight over whether to extend or let expire the Bush-era tax cuts. |
BusinessWeek
December 13, 2004
Rich Miller |
Wanted: One Tough Economic Team Bush needs new talent to carry out his ambitious second-term economic agenda. |
BusinessWeek
February 3, 2011
Lisa Lerer |
The Tea Party: Playing Chicken with Debt The White House and congressional Republicans draw lines in the sand |
BusinessWeek
September 27, 2004
Laura D'Andrea Tyson |
There's Nothing Macho About Soaring Deficits Those concerned about trends in the economy during the Bush Presidency aren't wimps or pessimists but thinking men and, yes, women. |
BusinessWeek
November 20, 2006
Mandel & Dunham |
Can Anyone Steer This Economy? Global forces have taken control of the economy. And government, regardless of party, will have less influence than ever |
CFO
September 1, 2004
Ronald Fink |
It's the Deficit,... Neither Bush nor Kerry would close the federal budget gap. But that's where the policy resemblance ends. While 86 percent of CFOs are concerned about the size of the deficit, so far neither Bush nor Kerry has demonstrated much real interest in it. |
The Motley Fool
August 5, 2011
Morgan Housel |
What the Debt Deal Might Do to the Economy Probably nothing good. |
The Motley Fool
November 22, 2011
Morgan Housel |
Congress: Doomed From the Beginning Why the supercommittee failed. |
BusinessWeek
May 5, 2011
Jonathan Alter |
Why the Republicans Are Boxed In They'll have to come up with a whole new deficit-cutting deal, and their options are few. |
Registered Rep.
November 3, 2010
Britton & Paikert |
Decision 2010: Gridlock Is Good For Markets The recent mid-term election results have many in the financial services industry cheering, especially with the Republican takeover in the House of Representatives |
The Motley Fool
April 7, 2010
Thomas F. Cooley |
(Don't) Read My Lips: Higher Taxes Are Inevitable Given current fiscal realities, higher taxes are inevitable. |
BusinessWeek
November 3, 2010
Paul M. Barrett et al. |
Republicans Win a Big Redistricting Edge Big state-level gains mean GOP dominance in redrawing congressional districts. |
BusinessWeek
July 22, 2010
Bit & Thomasson |
The Midterms Could Spark a Stock Rally If the Republicans take over the House, history suggests a robust market. If they take over the Senate, so much the better. |
Salon.com
February 15, 2001
Daryl Lindsey |
Reaganomics redux Supply-side economist Diana Furchtgott-Roth defends President Bush's $1.6 trillion tax cut... |
Investment Advisor
February 1, 2011
Melanie Waddell |
Ryan Reveals GOP Budget Agenda to Investment Advisor New House Budget Committee Chair says Dodd-Frank, health care, spending all in play. |
Reason
February 2007 |
Divided We Stand What sort of legislation and political theater should the friends of "Free Minds and Free Markets" expect during the next two years? Is the new situation an improvement or disaster? |
BusinessWeek
February 16, 2004
Michael J. Mandel |
Cutting Through The Budget Smoke Long-term growth matters to the health of the U.S. federal budget, and so does reforming entitlements. |
BusinessWeek
September 6, 2004
Miller & Gleckman |
Team Econ: Next Up? So far, Bush's economic team has enjoyed easy sailing. But can it carry through the President's aggressive agenda while keeping his pledge to cut a $400 billion budget deficit in half by the end of his second term? |
