Posted by Tad DeHaven on August 12, 2010
By Tad DeHaven
The White House Office of Management and Budget homepage currently features the following quote from the president:
President Obama says he wants to “invest in our people without leaving them a mountain of debt.”
That’s a curious statement because the Congressional Budget Office’s analysis of the president’s current budget proposal projects that publicly held debt as a [...]
Categories: Economy, Politics, Tax and Budget Policy |
Tags: budget proposal, Bush administration, cbo, congressional budget office, debt levels, federal debt, General, white house | 
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Posted by Christopher Preble on June 3, 2010
By Christopher Preble
Over at National Journal’s National Security Experts blog, this week’s question revolves around the health of the U.S. economy, and its relationship to U.S. power.
The editors ask:
How serious a threat is the mounting debt to the nation’s standing as the world’s only superpower? Can the U.S. continue to spend more than all other countries combined on its [...]
Categories: Economy, National Security, Politics, Tax and Budget Policy |
Tags: benefits, collapse, crisis, debt levels, eastern europe, Foreign Policy and National Security, General, Health, Welfare & Entitlements, insolvency, jagadeesh gokhale, military force, military spending, national security strategy, pension, pensioners, social security, social security system, spending, Taxes, taxpayers, terrorist | No Comments »
Posted by Steve H. Hanke on June 3, 2010
By Steve H. Hanke
Prof. Paul Krugman asserts in his New York Times column of May 31st that “Both textbook economics and experience say that slashing spending when you’re still suffering from high unemployment is a really bad idea — not only does it deepen the slump, but it does little to improve the budget outlook, because much of [...]
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Tags: budget deficit, debt levels, economic growth, economics, economists, fiscal policy, General, government spending, growth, interest rate, interest rates, keynes, Keynesian, keynesian theory, margaret thatcher, monetary policy, Paul Krugman, premiums | No Comments »
