Budget Deficit

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Entitlement Reform? Not Their Cup of Tea

Tea Party candidates are backing off from serious spending cuts

Shikha Dalmia | 11.1.2010 3:00 PM

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Paul Krugman, the Doctor, Now Trying to Screw Up Another Country

Tim Cavanaugh | 10.25.2010 11:13 AM

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Will Republicans Cut Military Spending?

Peter Suderman | 10.22.2010 1:56 PM

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There's No Defense For Obama's Defense Spending

Peter Suderman | 10.13.2010 9:03 AM

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Tune Into Stossel Tonight to Watch Veronique de Rugy and Others Talk About Our $13.5 Trillion Debt

Matt Welch | 10.7.2010 4:27 PM

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eMeg Will Use Skill Set to Dissect California

Meg Whitman's plan for the Golden State is too grown-up for its own good

Tim Cavanaugh | 10.1.2010 4:30 PM

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Michael Kinsley's Right: This Can't Go On

Matt Welch | 9.17.2010 11:39 AM

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Sweet Smell of Bankruptcy: Bay Area City Manager Looks at Life After Default

Tim Cavanaugh | 9.13.2010 8:45 PM

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Update on the Impending Budgepocalypse: U.S. to Run Second Largest Deficit in 65 Years

Peter Suderman | 9.9.2010 12:23 PM

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Romer Regrets

Tim Cavanaugh | 9.2.2010 5:24 PM

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Debt Wish

Peter Suderman | 9.2.2010 11:40 AM

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For Certain Is Debt for the Born

Peter Suderman | 8.30.2010 3:39 PM

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California's Gift of Shame

How IOUs, layoffs, late payments, and other bad news may still save the Golden State

Tim Cavanaugh | 8.27.2010 4:30 PM

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The Repudiationist Strikes Again

Tim Cavanaugh | 8.16.2010 12:37 PM

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Did IMF Say USA Is DOA?

Tim Cavanaugh | 8.12.2010 1:31 PM

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California Roundup: A Poor But Wise? Proud? Virtuous? Bankrupt State

Tim Cavanaugh | 8.11.2010 8:33 PM

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Secret Creditors On Track to Own 10 Percent of U.S. Government Debt

Tim Cavanaugh | 8.6.2010 7:34 PM

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California Roundup: Wine, Weed or Taxes? Decide, Golden State!

Tim Cavanaugh | 8.6.2010 6:11 PM

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Paul Krugman Angrily Summarizes Months-Old Criticism of Paul Ryan's Budget Plan

Peter Suderman | 8.6.2010 12:07 PM

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Growing Pains

ObamaCare won't stop rising health care costs.

Peter Suderman | 7.30.2010 12:00 PM

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Schwarzenegger Declares "Fiscal Emergency" in California

Tim Cavanaugh | 7.28.2010 6:37 PM

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California Roundup: Republicans As Worthless As Ever

Tim Cavanaugh | 7.26.2010 6:07 PM

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More Deficit Damage Ahead

Peter Suderman | 7.23.2010 5:49 PM

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Do Public Sector Unions Drive States Into Bankruptcy?

Tim Cavanaugh | 7.22.2010 8:40 PM

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New Proposition Would Make It Easier to Burn Up Money

Tim Cavanaugh | 7.14.2010 9:35 PM

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Obama, on Presidential Economic-Policy Commissions: "That's Washington-speak for 'we'll get back to you later.'"

Matt Welch | 6.30.2010 12:13 PM

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Debt Becomes Us

Peter Suderman | 6.7.2010 9:06 AM

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As Long As You Call It An "Emergency," You Can Spend As Much As You Want

Peter Suderman | 5.25.2010 11:40 AM

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IMF Joins CBO, CMS In Expressing Skepticism About ObamaCare's Medicare Cuts

Peter Suderman | 5.18.2010 6:38 PM

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Counting Down to the Budgepocalypse

Peter Suderman | 5.11.2010 8:39 AM

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Rater Haters Finally Find a Reason to Turn On Moody's, and It's a Bad Reason

Tim Cavanaugh | 5.10.2010 3:41 PM

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"The current government debt bubble is the last of all possible bubbles."

Tim Cavanaugh | 5.6.2010 11:55 PM

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Budgepocalypse Now

Peter Suderman | 4.22.2010 2:18 PM

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Why California Will Get Even Sicker

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.20.2010 1:01 PM

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Bernanke: Give Me Balanced Budgets, But Not Yet

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.15.2010 6:26 AM

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What Americans Think About the Budget

Peter Suderman | 4.9.2010 5:49 PM

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Don't Regret the Debt?

Peter Suderman | 4.6.2010 11:11 AM

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The Lie of Fiscal Responsibility

How Democrats used deceptive accounting to make history with health care reform.

Peter Suderman | 3.22.2010 10:00 AM

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Bernanke to Congress: You Are Going to Have to Cross That Fiscal Valley Yourself

Brian Doherty | 2.26.2010 8:04 PM

Politics

Deadbeat Nation Watch: China Dumps More Than $30 Billion in U.S. Funny Money

Tim Cavanaugh | 2.17.2010 4:44 PM

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Does the President's Budget Matter?

Peter Suderman | 2.8.2010 5:50 PM

Politics

With A Bipartisan Commission At His Side, President Obama Will Avoid Seriously Addressing Solve the Nation's Deficit Problem

Peter Suderman | 2.5.2010 10:49 AM