Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke should have spoken these words a long time ago, but better...
Category - Economy
Kill It With Fire
Based on the latest findings from the Congressional Budget Office, the president’s latest...
How About More Spending or Another Stimulus?
Dare to dream, but look — the president will have cut the deficit in half within his first...
Meanwhile, House GOP Proposes Even Bigger Cuts to SNAP
While no one is watching because they’re focused on recurring nontroversies in the media, the...
Out of Control Spending!
According to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) the federal deficit is shrinking faster than...
Hispanics Surpass Whites In College Enrollment
What a week for Jim DeMint and The Heritage Foundation. May 6th, Jason Richwine and Robert...
Possible Budget Surplus by 2015
Interesting: …official forecasters will have to radically alter their projections this...
Nope. Not Racist At All.
Surprise! The co-author of the fantastical Heritage Foundation report that estimated immigration...
GOP Refuses to Even Debate the Federal Budget
Senate Republicans are quietly killing the chance that anything other than continuing resolutions...
Jim DeMint’s Very Serious Immigration Report
Jim DeMint has released the report on the costs of immigration reform that we mentioned briefly...
When George Soros Speaks, Capitalism Listens
Because Socialism! or something. J.C. Penney shares finished up 11.6% Friday following news...
Stop the Austerity. The Deficit Is Dropping Precipitously.
Via David Frum, here’s AEI’s John Makin with the positive news: The United States has...
Framing the President’s Budget
I don’t approve of framing this as winners vs losers because that’s an...
Sequestration is Catching Up to the Economy
The jobless rate fell during the month of March to 7.6 percent, but this drop was mostly due to...
Checkout
Artist – Jimmy Margulies In other news, auto sales during the month of March hit a 6 year...
Get Ready for the Next Hostage Crisis
House Speaker John Boehner says the only way the House will approve the next hike of the national...
Green Jobs Growing Much Faster Than All Other Jobs
According to the Los Angeles Times, a study released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics yesterday...
House GOP Kills Minimum Wage Increase
Just in case you needed a reminder of whose side they’re on. via TPM House Republicans...
Chart of the Day
Here’s the consequences of the tax cuts included in Paul Ryan’s Path to Poverty 3.0 via...
The Path to Poverty 3.0 Has a $5.7 Trillion Hole In It
The Tax Policy Center has crunched the numbers and found that Paul Ryan would need to somehow...