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Written by Thomas R. Eddlem
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Friday, 17 July 2009 14:00 |
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 Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas W. Elmendorf gave a fiscal wake-up call to Senate Budget Committee members in testimony on July 16, noting that “the federal budget is on an unsustainable path — meaning that federal debt will continue to grow much faster than the economy over the long run.”
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Written by John F. McManus
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Thursday, 16 July 2009 16:30 |
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 Congressman Ron Paul’s H.R. 1207, calling for an audit of the Federal Reserve, has attracted 270 cosponsors in less than five months. The Republican congressman's bill has received strong bipartican support, and approximately 100 of the bill's cosponsors are Democrats. Support for H.R. 1207 has frightened some of the Fed’s champions in the academic world, Fed officials themselves, and, of course, many of the Fed's friends in the financial world.
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Written by Jack Kenny
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Wednesday, 15 July 2009 16:31 |
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 Sen. Judd Gregg, R-NH, knocked the spending plans of the Obama administration Tuesday, one day after the Treasury Department announced the deficit reached the $1 trillion mark at the end of June, just three-quarters of the way through the current fiscal year.
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Written by Charles Scaliger
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Wednesday, 15 July 2009 16:30 |
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 The economy isn’t out of the woods yet, not by a long shot. That, at least, is the conclusion drawn by none other than U.S. News & World Report’s eminence grise Mortimer Zuckerman, in a July 14 article in the Wall Street Journal.
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Written by Thomas R. Eddlem
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Tuesday, 07 July 2009 00:00 |
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 Asked by This Week’s George Stephanopoulos about the Obama Administration’s terrible economic prognostications in advance of passage of the $787 billion “stimulus” spending bill back in February, Vice President Joe Biden regurgitated a familiar talking point:
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