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BusinessWeek
August 25, 2010
Peter Coy |
Governor Chris Christie: GOP Darling New Jersey Governor Christie is a rising national star. By taking on his state's bloated budget, he embodies the New Austerity. Will voters hate him for it?   |
BusinessWeek
May 27, 2010
Lindblad & Winter |
Red Ink from Sea to Shining Sea All across the country, states are in various stages of fiscal crisis. Here are some of the most at-risk. |
BusinessWeek
May 26, 2011
Margaret Newkirk |
State Budget Cuts, Reconsidered A faster-than-expected recovery in tax revenue has some states loosening their belts, while others stick to austerity plans. |
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
April 28, 2011
Mildenberg & Nash |
California, Texas, and State Workers' Pay As California tries to close a $15.4 billion budget gap, state workers - who earn 25.2 percent more than their counterparts in Texas - face cuts. |
BusinessWeek
June 13, 2005
Nanette Byrnes |
Sink Hole! How public pension promises are draining state and city budgets. |
Reason
October 2003
John Hood |
Why the States Are Broke Bloated governments, budget gaps, and Parkinson's laws |
BusinessWeek
May 12, 2011
Tim Jones |
Taking a Page from the Republican Playbook Illinois state Democrats rumble with the unions over benefits. |
BusinessWeek
August 25, 2010 |
Timeline: Chris Christie Events in New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's life and career. |
BusinessWeek
May 2, 2005
Grover & Bernstein |
Arnold Gets Strict With The Teachers Schwarzenegger's plan to link educators' pay to test scores has triggered an all-out war. |
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. |
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. |
BusinessWeek
September 30, 2010
Tom Keene |
Tom Keene's Econo Chat A conversation with New Jersey Governor Chris Christie about state pensions. |
BusinessWeek
February 23, 2011
Brendan Greeley |
The High Stakes Union Stare-Down Why stripping collective bargaining rights from public-sector workers is worth debating. |
BusinessWeek
June 16, 2011
Terrence Dopp |
New Jersey's Lavish Payday for Retirees New Jersey Governor Chris Christie wants to stop paying public workers for unused sick and vacation days, which add up to $825 million. |
BusinessWeek
April 7, 2011
Deprez & Rosenkrantz |
Women Bear the Brunt of Public Sector Job Cuts With females in the majority at jobs such as teaching and health care, cutbacks and limits on collective bargaining will fall disproportionately on them. |
BusinessWeek
March 31, 2011
Roger Lowenstein |
The Great American Ponzi Scheme Do we want public pensions? There are compelling reasons why we do. |
BusinessWeek
June 9, 2011
Steven Sloan |
States Are Rejecting Millionaire Taxes Opposition from Republicans and business, plus rising revenues, are leading to a rollback |
BusinessWeek
June 2, 2010
Palmeri & Marois |
Can Jerry Brown Cut California Down to Size? In the '70s, he was "Governor Moonbeam." Now he's running for the office again -- as a fiscal hawk. |
BusinessWeek
January 20, 2011
William Selway |
Muni Bonds: Default Fears May Be Overblown As investors flee, some analysts say predictions of widespread defaults, spurred by big state deficits and lost tax revenues, are lacking in evidence. |
Reason
May 2009
Flynn & Summers |
Failed States After a long spending binge, governors go begging for a handout. It won't be their last. |
BusinessWeek
April 21, 2011
Simone Baribeau |
State Workers Run for the Exits Many states are seeing double-digit increases in retirement applications as legislators trim pay and benefits. |
BusinessWeek
August 11, 2003
William C. Symonds |
Dr. Dean on the Record Says the former Vermont governer and Dem '04 hopeful: George Bush "is a President who doesn't have a clue" |
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
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
May 26, 2011
Mark Niquette |
Tiny Towns May Be an Endangered Species Several states facing budget shortfalls are offering incentives for townships to share services or even merge. |
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. |
BusinessWeek
October 13, 2010
Ben Elgin et al. |
The Political Rumble Over Public Pension Costs Unfunded retirement benefits have become an election issue, and unions are fighting back. |
BusinessWeek
June 16, 2010
Palmeri & Marois |
The Money That Fueled California's Election Revolt Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and his allies hope their Proposition 14 victory will help end California's political gridlock. |
Finance & Development
December 2011
Florence Jaumotte |
Fixing the Flaws in EMU The euro area's long-term survival requires a fundamental transformation of policymaking |
Finance & Development
September 2011
Celine Allard |
More Europe, Not Less The euro area is learning from its debt crisis that it needs a more centralized approach to fiscal and financial policies. |
Financial Planning
March 1, 2011
Donna Mitchell |
Risky Business There is no "Chapter 8" in the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. But like a phantom limb, the nonexistent "Chapter 8" -- a proposed option to allow states to default on their debts -- is already aggravating the municipal bond market. |
BusinessWeek
July 5, 2004
Grover & Palmeri |
Arnold Is Hitting His Marks The Sacramento governor has plugged budget holes. But is he pushing the problems into the future? |
Inc.
December 2006 |
Mail Room for Political Debate... Looking to Heavin... Don't Speak... Rehashing the Numbers... etc. |
BusinessWeek
May 26, 2011
Esme E. Deprez |
From Budget Deficits to Official State Desserts Even as lawmakers grapple with fiscal problems, they're finding time to designate state guns, state fish, and state songs. |
Financial Advisor
June 2006
Alan Lavine |
Storm Clouds For Municipal Bonds Underfunded liabilities loom as a threat to governments' finances. |
BusinessWeek
August 11, 2003
William C. Symonds |
Who's the Real Howard Dean? As Vermont governor, the liberal firebrand was a fiscal conservative with close ties to business |
BusinessWeek
December 9, 2010
Christopher Palmeri |
San Diego's Tough-Love Pension Proposal Mayor Jerry Sanders wants new employees to use 401(k)-like pension plans |
BusinessWeek
April 7, 2011
Michael Marois et al. |
Cuomo vs. Brown: A Tale of Two Governors Budget success or failure may rest on how much power the state executive holds. |
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. |
BusinessWeek
June 13, 2005
Nanette Byrnes |
How the Garden State Dug a Hole Borrowing aimed at boosting the assets of New Jersey's pension plans went way awry. It's a lesson to governments everywhere. |
BusinessWeek
March 9, 2011
Drake Bennett |
Dispatch from a Divided Wisconsin The battle in Wisconsin is about much more than public workers' pay. It's about the future of American government. |
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. |
Finance & Development
September 2011 |
Fiscal Neighbors Canada and the United States confronted growing budget deficits and public debt but the results differed. |
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? |
Salon.com
August 3, 2000
Jake Tapper |
Defining compassionate conservatism Stephen Goldsmith, George W. Bush's senior domestic policy advisor and a bit of a wonk, calls for the public and private sectors to both do their part. |
BusinessWeek
August 11, 2010
Beth Jinks & Terrence Dopp |
Governor Christie's Atlantic City Cleanup Plan To revive development, the New Jersey Republican would oversee a takeover of the gambling district and surrounding neighborhoods. |
BusinessWeek
April 22, 2010
Karl Taro Greenfeld |
Organized Chaos Meg Whitman believes her experience as a CEO can help her save California. Does she have any idea of what she's getting herself into? |
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 |
BusinessWeek
July 8, 2010
Elgin & Palmeri |
Steve Peace: California Revolutionary The man who is changing the way California -- and possibly the rest of the country -- elects its leaders is a political maverick with an eccentric legacy in both Sacramento and Hollywood. |
