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Original Technorati articles tagged “deficits”

• in Politics
  Recession is Disportionately Hurting Minorities
  Minorities Hurt Most By Rising Deficits
  by / on Jul 28, 2011
• in Business
  Is GE Gaming the System Or Simply Playing The Game?
  The spotlight is on GE, a multibillion dollar conglomerate which markets everything from toasters to jet engines to television shows. Playing the cards dealt by Congress?
  by alanblume / on May 7, 2011
• in Politics
  The National Debt: A Toxic Mix
  Toxic Mix Of Deficits
  by grandbudda / on Feb 2, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “deficits”

 

• The Myth of GOP Stinginess

  
  Articles on National Review Online — Authority: 803
  Mitch McConnell wanted you to know he was livid on Thursday. The Senate was about to Greece the wheels for adding yet another trillion and change to President Obama’s yet-again tapped-out credit card. “More spending, more debt,” brayed the minority leader. “That’s what we’ve gotten from this ...
  2 days ago

• Quotation of the Day…

  
  Cafe Hayek — Authority: 652
  … is from page 201 of my colleague Richard Wagner’s valuable 1987 essay “Liability Rules, Fiscal Institutions and Debt,” which is chapter 11 in the important 1987 collection Deficits (James M. Buchanan, Charles K. Rowley, & Robert D. Tollison, eds): The claims of Keynesian macroeconomic theory and ...
  5 days ago

• While private sector debt gets under control, public sector debt explodes

  
  John Lott's Website — Authority: 519
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• James Kwak: Department of Duh (as in...GOP tax plans ALL increase the deficit)

  
  ataxingmatter — Authority: 100
  From Mark Thoma, a Kwak comment on the way each of the GOP candidates tax proposals would add much bigger holes to the deficit than anything Obama proposes, while simultaneously contributing to the obscene inequality in this country by rewarding the rich with large tax cuts (and in most cases shifting the burden to ...
  1 week ago

• What about Mitt Romneys Tax loopholes?

  
  Finance Moz — Authority: 103
    After refusing for weeks to release his taxes, Mitt Romney now says he’ll do so — by tax day, April 15. But the real news is what Romney has now admitted about his taxes. It’s not how much Romney earns. Everyone knows he’s comfortably in the top one-tenth of one percent. It’s how much he pays of ...
  1 week ago

• Development deficit dogs poll-bound states

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 534
  New Delhi, Jan 19 (IANS) With high fiscal deficits — an indicator of poor financial management — the five poll-bound states of Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Manipur, Uttarakhand and Goa, home to about 230 million people, leave very little for development, a report says.An analysis of budgets of these states, done by the ...
  1 week ago

• How the media lost the plot on US taxation | Mike Lofgren

  
  top99news - breaking news from the world top newspapers — Authority: 163
  http://www.guardian.co.uk How the media lost the plot on US taxation | Mike Lofgren What hope does the public have of making informed choices about parties’ tax policies when the press is not telling the story? The media doesn’t seem to understand the basics about budgets – and the inescapable ...
  1 week ago

• Ruth (Marcus): Romney Reforms More Ruthless Than (Even) Ryan’s

  
  EconomistMom.com — Authority: 94
  The Washington Post’s Ruth Marcus points out that if Mitt Romney really cares about the poor, he has a funny way of showing it–in this case, regarding his ideas for fiscal policy reforms: “I’m concerned about the poor in this country,” Mitt Romney said the other day. “We have to make sure the safety ...
  1 week ago

• Münchau: We are fighting the wrong crisis

  
  Credit Writedowns — Authority: 649
  Wolfgang Münchau wrote a piece that was carried online today at Der Spiegel. I haven’t seen an English language version so I thought I would say a few words about the piece I saw in German. Münchau says that Standard and Poors was right – not necessarily about the ratings downgrades, but rather that Europe was ...
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• Structural Deficit Demands Structural Change

  
  PHILCHAR — Authority: 136
  Tweet Share LA’S BUDGET CRISIS – the Mayor and his staff have developed a very good Budget Survey that addresses the issues and choices concerning next year’s budget deficit that is estimated by the City Administrative Officer to be in the range of $200 million to $250 million. the survey questions ...
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• The Republicans Selective Memory

  
  Michael-In-Norfolk - - Coming Out In Mid Life — Authority: 431
  The chart set out above speaks volumes and underscores the fact that the GOP attacks on Barack Obama are severely misplaced. The real big spender was Chimperator George W. Bush not to mention his GOP sycophants in the U. S. Congress. Lest we forget, the big explosions in the nations debt levels were fueled the ...
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• More States Look to Legalize Online Gambling

  
  heave-ho.org — Authority: 449
  Raising revenue remains the draw for most, but some wonder whether profits from Internet play would make any significant differences to deficits.
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• Robert Shiller: “Sweden has a bubble”

  
  Credit Writedowns — Authority: 649
  The following is my translation of an article carried in today’s Dagens Nyheter, Sweden’s largest daily newspaper. It talks about a Swedish housing bubble and about policy choices in the United States. Sweden may have a bubble in its housing market. But now that housing prices have begun to fall, it is too late ...
  1 week ago

• Romney’s Effective Tax Rate: Just 15 Percent?

  
  EconomistMom.com — Authority: 94
  Well, this is going to raise some voters’ eyebrows : “What’s the effective rate I’ve been paying? It’s probably closer to the 15 percent rate than anything,” Romney, a GOP presidential candidate, said. “My last 10 years, I’ve — my income comes overwhelmingly from some investments made in the ...
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• Most Gridlocked Congress In History Still Manages Double-Digit Growth In Federal Spending

  
  Say Anything — Authority: 602
  According to the Washington Times , 2011 marked the most gridlocked Congress in the history of the country : It’s official: Congress ended its least-productive year in modern history after passing 80 bills — fewer than during any other session since year-end records began being kept in 1947. Furthermore, an ...
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• Chart of the Day: The Ultimate European Government Debt Chart

  
  Credit Writedowns — Authority: 649
  By Marc Chandler My wise beyond her years webmaster just told me about Google Public Data Explorer , which allows you to build interactive charts of public data. This is no doubt going to be my new favorite toy. Check out the below graphic which shows General Government Deficit/Surplus as % of GDP on the Y axis, ...
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• Rebalancing the global economy needn’t be painful – just let China grow

  
  top99news - breaking news from the world top newspapers — Authority: 163
  http://www.guardian.co.uk Rebalancing the global economy needn’t be painful – just let China grow US policymakers should forget punitive tariffs against Chinese imports, letting China grow rich might do the trickMany take as fact that the current pattern of global imbalances – large and persistent ...
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• Milton Friedman’s 1948 Functional Finance Proposal

  
  Credit Writedowns — Authority: 649
  By L. Randall Wray In the context of today’s conventional wisdom about the dangers of budget deficits, Lerner’s views ( examined last week ) appear somewhat radical. What is surprising is that they were not all that radical at the time. As everyone knows, Milton Friedman was a conservative economist and a vocal ...
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• Daily Commentary – Tuesday, January 17, 2012 – Bodies Piling Up at the Cook County Illinois Morgue

  
  Scared Monkeys — Authority: 532
  Overwhelming number of bodies in the county morgue likely due to budget cuts Daily Commentary – Tuesday, January 17, 2012 Download Share This
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• Harry Reid Says Republicans Should Drop “Tea Party Extremists”

  
  Say Anything — Authority: 602
  It has been over 1,000 days since the Democrat-controlled Senate passed a budget in committee , let alone through a vote of the whole chamber. The national debt is on track to have grown by $6.2 trillion since President Obama took office by the end of this year, an amount more than the national debt created by ...
  2 weeks ago

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