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View ArticleBudget Deficit Shrinks as Consumer Confidence Grows
Here’s a headline that may surprise you: The federal budget deficit is shrinking. What’s more, it’s shrinking far faster than anyone in Washington anticipated it would. That bit of information,...
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Budget Deficit Shrinks as Consumer Confidence Grows | Nobel Prize Winner Mario Molina is Sounding the Alarm Again | To Binge Watch...Or Not | Facebook: "We Need to Do Better" on Anti-Women Hate Speech...
View ArticleBritish Government Announces Spending Cuts
The British government has announced a series of spending reforms designed to carry the UK through the 2015 budget year.According to the BBC, the plan calls for some $130 billion in cuts to welfare,...
View ArticleCrowdsourcing Cost Cutting
Stephen Goldsmith, New York City's deputy mayor for operations and author of The Power of Social Innovation: How Civic Entrepreneurs Ignite Community Networks for Good, talks about the city's recent...
View ArticleIreland Releases Budget Plan to Reduce Deficit
Ireland has released a new budget plan, designed to save the country billions of dollars over the next four years. Details of the plan come days after the country applied for a multi-billion dollar...
View ArticleDeficit Reduction the Domenici Way
The National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform was created by President Obama to address the United States' fiscal challenges. Senator Pete Domenici, Senior Fellow and Co-Chair of the Debt...
View ArticleProgressive Deficit Reduction
Joseph Stiglitz, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, Columbia University professor, and author of Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy joins Robert Kuttner,...
View ArticleFinancial 411: New Year, New Governor
Andrew Cuomo is now New York's governor and it will now be up to him to fix the state's growing fiscal crisis. And it won't be easy. The state faces an estimated $9 billion budget deficit and a...
View ArticleGOP Wants 'Deep Cuts' from Obama, but Their Proposal Doesn't Cut It
Neither party has shown any willingness to start tackling the long term deficit issues facing our country.The most recent illustration of this, spun all tightly into a well-packaged bit of public...
View ArticleNew York and the New Budget
Welcome to Politics Bites, where every afternoon at It's A Free Country, we bring you the unmissable quotes from the morning's political conversations on WNYC. Today on The Brian Lehrer Show,...
View ArticleCBO Says Obama's Budget Estimate Off by $2.3 Trillion
Last week the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a 22-page analysis of President Obama's 2012 budget proposal and found much to disagree with. It's not exactly a page turner, but there are some...
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Caltrain Isn't Slashing Service – Yet
The Popular Palo Alto California Avenue Station Would See No Weekend Trains if Plan Is Approved (Photo: Caltrain) (San Francisco – Casey Miner, KALW News) Caltrain’s Joint Powers Board voted Thursday...
View ArticleThe Real Ruckus over Budget's 'Cowboy Poets'? The GOP Hates Funding Art
There are times when Democrats and Republicans both appear as caricatures and feed their stereotypes. This was on display when Sen. Harry Reid appeared every bit the liberal goofball by invoking...
View ArticleObama's Relationship to Debt Reality? Downgraded
Jake Tapper highlights a very telling story today about just how out of touch the Obama administration is with reality. Earlier this week, the ratings agency Standard & Poor's changed its outlook...
View ArticleOpinion: After Latest Temper Tantrum, Congress Needs Stronger Parents
Talks between congressional leaders and the White House still haven't resulted in a compromise plan to avoid hitting the debt ceiling, and probably falling back into recession. Something struck me...
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Connie Mack's Plan to Balance the Budget, One Penny at a Time
Florida Congressman Connie Mack has a plan to save the country from its growing deficit, using nothing but pennies.Mack, a Republican, is promoting a "one-cent solution" to balance the budget in eight...
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[Unedited] Pete Domenici and Alice Rivlin with Krista Tippett
A veteran Republican senator and Democratic economist are political bridge people who've brought differing approaches and shared love of country to generations of economic policy. In this tense...
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Sen. Pete Domenici and Alice Rivlin — Political Bridge People
A veteran Republican senator and Democratic economist are political bridge people who've brought differing approaches and shared love of country to generations of economic policy. In this tense...
View ArticleJoseph Stiglitz on Debt
Economist and Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz discusses public debt and argues that concerns over debt are crowding out the relief and recovery policies that the United States—and other nations facing...
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