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Reason
October 2003
John Hood |
Why the States Are Broke Bloated governments, budget gaps, and Parkinson's laws   |
Reason
Aug/Sep 2009
Matt Welch |
California Screaming: The Golden State's political class comes unglued in the face of a citizens' revolt Faced with a political class that ignored bureaucratic inefficiency, that demanded higher taxes, that filled the newspapers with scare stories about budget cuts, the citizens of one of the bluest states in the nation collectively said we just don't believe you anymore. |
The Motley Fool
May 26, 2010
Jennifer Schonberger |
The State of the States: Virginia's Governor Weighs In The Governor of Virginia on the fiscal state of Virginia. |
Finance & Development
June 2009
Horton & El-Ganainy |
Back to Basics: What Is Fiscal Policy? What is fiscal policy? And, how can fiscal tools provide a boost to the world economy? |
Reason
February 2009
Matt Welch |
Schwarzenegger's Failure If the California governor is the face of "moderate" Republicanism, the party is even more doomed than the 2008 elections suggest. |
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
June 13, 2005
Nanette Byrnes |
Sink Hole! How public pension promises are draining state and city budgets. |
U.S. Banker
July 2010 |
In a State of Deterioration Rebuilding older communities is key to an economic recovery, but excessive debt is robbing state and local governments of the resources they need to invest in infrastructure, schools and job creation. |
BusinessWeek
April 8, 2010
Peter Coy |
U.S. Economy: The Case for More Stimulus The worst thing about the uptick in hiring? It could undermine a second wave of federal spending that may be needed to stave off a double-dip recession. |
Finance & Development
March 2009
Carlo Cottarelli |
Paying the Piper The role of medium-term fiscal policy in rebounding from the crisis. |
BusinessWeek
February 14, 2005
Howard Gleckman |
The Fog Of The Budget How Bush will mask the biggest national debt in history. |
BusinessWeek
September 22, 2003
Laura D'Andrea Tyson |
A New Governor Won't Fix What Ails California The recall shows that the mixture of money politics and direct-democracy provisions has made the state ungovernable. |
Finance & Development
December 2010 |
Stimulus Worked Without the quick and massive policy response, the Great Recession might still plague the United States. |
Finance & Development
September 2010
Laurence J. Kotlikoff |
A Hidden Fiscal Crisis A noted U.S. economist says debt figures seriously understate long-term budget problems in the United States |
U.S. Banker
May 2010 |
Overspending Threatens Economic Recovery Consumers began to save and the government issued a tax cut. Now spending by both is on the rise again. Unless tough choices are made, this won't end well. |
BusinessWeek
February 17, 2011
Mike Dorning |
Obama's Budget and Its Discontents To Republican free-market purists, Obama's 2012 budget priorities smack of Keynesian interventionism. |
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 |
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. |
CFO
February 1, 2005
Don Durfee |
Big City Blues Sooner rather than later, businesses will feel the effects of local budget shortfalls, through higher taxes and fees, crumbling roads and bridges, and smaller police departments. Simply relocating may not be the answer --- many suburbs now face the same fiscal pressures as inner cities. |
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Sanford's Embarassing Error Mark Sanford, South Carolina's governor, has taken a swan dive from the moral high ground. |
BusinessWeek
September 2, 2010
Caroline Baum |
Commentary: The Good Old Bad Days It's easy to be nostalgic for the 1990-91 recession that gave way to the Clinton boom. What will it take to ignite that kind of growth today? |
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. |
BusinessWeek
March 3, 2011
Tim Jones |
For Governors, Public Sector Unions Are the Enemy They're being targeted for pay cuts, benefit cuts, salary cuts, and loss of collective bargaining rights |
BusinessWeek
January 24, 2005
Aaron Bernstein |
Social Security President Bush and other free-market advocates are suggesting the most sweeping change to this core social program since its inception. But are private accounts a good idea? |
The Motley Fool
August 12, 2011
Tim Mullaney |
Washington's Anti-Jobs Package Surprise! The job gap isn't in the private sector. To understand how we ended up with only 117,000 new jobs last month is to see that fiscal policy has been killing jobs. |
Inc.
October 2006
Mike Hofman |
Rating the Governors With Arnold Schwarzenegger and 25 other governors up for reelection, we look at who among them has earned the entrepreneurial vote. |
Knowledge@Wharton
June 18, 2003 |
Fate Worse than Debt: Can the U.S. Deficit Rise to $45.47 Trillion? The U.S. government's future obligations outweigh its projected revenues so heavily that it would need a permanent income tax increase of 66% or the immediate elimination of all federal discretionary spending to put it on track for balancing its finances. |
Finance & Development
September 2010
Kevin Cheng |
The Long Run Is Near France, like many advanced economies, confronts the expensive needs of a rapidly aging population |
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. |
Finance & Development
September 2011 |
Fiscal Neighbors Canada and the United States confronted growing budget deficits and public debt but the results differed. |
Finance & Development
December 2009
Baldacci & Gupta |
Fiscal Expansions: What Works There is a firm link between the composition of fiscal policy and the length of a financial crisis. |
IndustryWeek
September 1, 2006
Michael K. Evans |
Evans On The Economy -- Beware Of The Sour Spot The Fed must get serious on inflation now to stave off a serious recession later. |
Inc.
June 2008
Joseph E. Stiglitz |
Guest Speaker: Joseph E. Stiglitz, Stagflation Redux Rising prices amid a sputtering economy? We've been here before. Here's how businesses should prepare. |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2001
Martin Muhleisen & Hamid Faruqee |
Japan: Population Aging and the Fiscal Challenge With Japan facing a demographic crisis, government finances--stretched to the limit to keep the economy afloat--have to cope with the rising strain on public pension and health systems. This article looks at the economic and fiscal costs of aging in Japan... |
Finance & Development
September 2011
Laurence Ball et al. |
Painful Medicine Although advanced economies need medium-run fiscal consolidation, slamming on the brakes too quickly will hurt incomes and job prospects. |
Finance & Development
September 2009
Carlo Cottarelli & Jose Vinals |
Looking Ahead Countries must begin now to devise economic strategies to accompany the recovery. |
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. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
December 13, 2006
Mike Norman |
The Misunderstood Inflation Monster Inflation is sometimes referred to as the cruelest tax, but that's more myth than fact. A little inflation is not a bad thing, actually, and even periods that have seen elevated inflation levels produced, on balance, more winners than losers. |
Reason
June 2009
Veronique de Rugy |
The Age of Debt Barack Obama's first budget promises "fiscal responsibility" but delivers the opposite. |
BusinessWeek
December 2, 2010
Przybyla & Faler |
Deficits and Debt as Far as the Eye Can See Neither the President's panel nor the most hawkish budget-cutters would balance the federal budget for decades to come. |
Inc.
April 2008
Laura Cohn |
States Eye New Taxes Facing budget shortfalls, tax commissioners in many states are desperate for new sources of revenue. Guess where they're looking? |
Salon.com
January 11, 2002
Damien Cave |
The dangers of overstimulation The right time to jump-start the economy may already have passed... |
The Motley Fool
October 21, 2011
Morgan Housel |
50 Amazing Numbers About the Economy Important stuff you probably didn't know. |
BusinessWeek
July 15, 2010
Peter Coy |
Commentary: States of Crisis Governors know plenty of phony ways to balance out-of-whack state budgets. Here are a few honest ones. |
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. |
BusinessWeek
December 22, 2003
Cooper & Madigan |
U.S. GDP Revisions: The Recovery's Lift Is Slower For Workers The much anticipated U.S. rewrite of economic history hardly alters perceptions of the recent past. But the data do give reasons to be optimistic about the future. |
National Real Estate Investor
June 1, 2005
Anthony Downs |
A Recipe Sure to End the Real Estate Boom Slower growth, higher interest rates, and higher taxes are not a recipe for prosperity. So, real estate will be part of the broader economic suffering required by the adjustments our economy must make. |
Reason
June 2008
Donald J. Boudreaux |
The Coming Recession Seven observers debate the (sorry) state of the economy. |
Finance & Development
June 2009
Eyzaguirre et al. |
Latin America: When Is Fiscal Stimulus Right? For some Latin American countries stimulus is appropriate during the global economic crisis. But for others the answer is less clear. |
