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• What Does a Fiscal Steward Look Like?

  
  EconomistMom.com — Authority: 464
  Well, they come in lots of varieties and come from all different parts of the country.  Here’s a neat little video CNN-Money produced out of their tagging along with the Concord Coalition’s “fiscal advisory councils”–whose representatives came to DC earlier this week to take their message (and model good ...
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• Modeling Fiscal Responsibility (vs Protesting It)

  
  EconomistMom.com — Authority: 464
  At our national conference on fiscal stewardship on Capitol Hill yesterday, the Concord Coalition released a report containing the recommendations of its nationwide “fiscal advisory councils.”  The report is impressive, not so much for its length and the number and variety of policy recommendations (you can ...
  3 days ago

• Keeping In the Teeth and Keeping Up the Faith

  
  EconomistMom.com — Authority: 464
  Today’s Washington Post had this story by Lori Montgomery and Shailagh Murray on the evolving Senate health reform bill.  The title of the article was “Deals cut with health groups may be at peril”–subtitled “Top Senate Democrats fight to sustain support in face of amendments.”  But it could have ...
  4 days ago

• Game Changers, Curve Benders…and Teeth Pullers

  
  EconomistMom.com — Authority: 464
  One version of a toothless , continuous-feedback loop - “Precious” the dog precious talking for her soft food @ Yahoo! Video Continuing on what gives me (and other fiscal hawkish types) “loosey-goosey” anxiety about health reform, OMB director Peter Orszag had explained in the Monday story by Lori ...
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• “Commission” is Washington Speak for Cutting Social Security and Medicare

  
  SF Gray Panthers — Authority: 126
  Truthout, December 1, 2009 Dean Baker Commission” Is Washington Speak for Cutting Social Security and Medicare The “experts” who could not see the $8 trillion housing bubble that wrecked the economy are now telling us that we have to create a special commission so that they can cut Social Security and ...
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• “Loosey-Goosey” Anxiety Over Health Reform

  
  EconomistMom.com — Authority: 464
  A story by Lori Montgomery in today’s Washington Post offers an interesting critique of those of us who worry about fiscal sustainability in the context of health reform (emphasis added): As the long battle over health care is rejoined in the Senate this week, experts remain deeply divided over whether the ...
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• America Needs More Jobs, Not More Debt

  
  Big Government — Authority: 815
  Last week, as the national debt topped $12 trillion for the first time in U.S. history, one influential policymaker said, “I think it is important, though, to recognize if we keep on adding to the debt … that at some point, people could lose confidence in the U.S. economy in a way that could actually lead to a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Traveling on Empty for 35 Years, U.S. Government Traps Itself Into Teaser Rates Now Ready for Reset

  
  Livinglies's Weblog — Authority: 428
  NOW AVAILABLE ON KINDLE/AMAZON! SEE calhoun_testimony LITANY of MORTGAGE LENDING ABUSES AND OTHER BANK ABUSES Admitted by Responsible Lending Association Isn’t it interesting, frustrating, maddening that not only did Wall Street do it to 20 million homeowners in one form or another, they did it to the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Important News - Nov. 20

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 156
  A victory for the American people! “If you care about transparency of the Fed, you would allow a look at monetary policy,” Paul said. “We’re dealing with trillions of dollars that doesn’t get audited. There is no reason why the world can’t know, eventually, what the Fed is doing.” “Paul’s ...
  3 weeks ago

• So You Want to Reduce the Budget Deficit?

  
  EconomistMom.com — Authority: 464
  Have you ever thought you could be WAY more fiscally responsible than our politicians are?  Go ahead and test yourself on the Concord Coalition’s new online version of our “Principles and Priorities” exercise, now re-dubbed the “Federal Budget Challenge.” As was true with the old fashioned hard-copy ...
  4 weeks ago

• A Not So Class Act

  
  John Goodman's Health Policy Blog — Authority: 482
  Included in health care reform legislation on Capitol Hill is the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports ( CLASS ) Act. Workers would have money automatically deducted from their paychecks every month. In exchange, they would receive in the future a $50 to $75 daily benefit for home-based long-term care, ...
  5 weeks ago

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