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• ProPublica Answers Recovery.gov Questions

  
  The Fine Print: blog posts from OMBWatch — Authority: 134
  If you havent navigated around through Recovery.gov since the Recovery Board added the recipient reports on Oct. 30, the truth is it isnt the easiest site to use. Having access to the recipient reports is great (and rather historic), but the data are stored in various disparate sections of the website, and ...
  7 hours ago

• When the Budget Director Talks, People Will Listen

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 914
  Both sides of the health care debate in Washington are waiting to hear what Douglas W. Elmendorf, director of the Congressional Budget Office, has to say.
  8 hours ago

• Potential Trouble For Democrats On Health Care

  
  King Politics — Authority: 135
  In an effort to reduce the budget deficit, House Democrats might tick off seniors . The Congressional Budget Office believes the House bill passed last week might result in slashing the Medicare budget by $500 million over the ensuing years. It would be good for the budget, but bad for seniors. Analysis ...
  13 hours ago

• Health-Care “Reform” Bills Increase Costs, Endanger Access for Millions, Federal Experts Say

  
  OpenMarket.org — Authority: 665
  The healthcare “reform” bill backed by Obama “ would reduce senior care ,” and “could jeopardize access to care for millions,” report healthcare experts at the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The bill also “ increases medical costs ” through inflation, increasing health-care ...
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• Fiscal Crisis?

  
  The Progressive Economics Forum — Authority: 496
  I blogged recently about the likely pending attack on public service workers. http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2009/11/10/public-sector-workers-the-recessions-next-victims/ This battle will, of course, be fought by right wing (and perhaps not so right wing) governments in the name of “fiscal ...
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• On the “Political Economy” of Fiscal Policy

  
  EconomistMom.com — Authority: 513
  I’m just back from Denver, where in the opening session on “Dealing with the Fiscal Outlook” of the National Tax Association annual conference, I had been tasked with discussing the “political economy” of the problem.  I started by saying I didn’t know where to begin; there’s such a gulf between ...
  2 days ago

• APEC leaders dilute carbon targets

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is jointly hosting a climate change breakfast on the sidelines of APEC in Singapore, though the Pacific rim leaders have watered down climate change targets in their final statement. Climate change has been the big new issue on the usually trade-centred agenda of the Asia Pacific Economic ...
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• High Costs Weigh on Troop Debate for Afghan War

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 914
  The budget implications of President Obama’s decision about sending more troops to Afghanistan are adding pressure to limit the commitment, senior administration officials say.
  2 days ago

• Travers: Lets get serious about the deficit

  
  TheStar.com - Travel — Authority: 855
  Party leaders including Michael Ignatieff, and Stephen Harper, whose government has focused on photo ops featuring MPs and oversized stimulus cheques, havent had much to say since the election threat subsided. But, says James Travers, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty must start addressing Ottawas deficit.
  2 days ago

• Department of Commerce Budget

  
  One Conservative Voice — Authority: 134
  Departmental Management $115M Economic Development Administration $284M Bureau of the Census $289M Periodic Census $7,116M Economic and Statistical Analysis $105M International Trade Administration $440M Bureau of Industry and Security $100M Minority Business Development Agency $31M National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...
  3 days ago

• Department of Agriculture Budget

  
  One Conservative Voice — Authority: 134
  Farm Service Agency * Commodity Credit Corporation Fund $10,404M * Salaries and Expenses $1,254M * Tobacco Trust Fund $960M * Agricultural Disaster Relief Fund $760M * Agricultural Credit Insurance Fund $436M * Commodity Credit Corporation Export Loans $18M * Grassroots Source Water Protection Program $5M * State ...
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• Judicial Branch Budget

  
  One Conservative Voice — Authority: 134
  Supreme Court $90M Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit $37M Court of International Trade $22M Administrative Office $84M Federal Judicial Center $27M Judicial Retirement Funds $191M United States Sentencing Commission $17M Circuit Courts and District Courts: * Salaries and Expenses $5,168M * Defender Services ...
  3 days ago

• Legislative Branch Budget

  
  One Conservative Voice — Authority: 134
  Senate: Compensation of Members $24M Salaries, Officers and Employees $186M Miscellaneous Items $19M Secretary $2M Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper $168M Inquiries and Investigations $173M Official Personnel and Office Expense Account $451M Office of the Legislative Counsel $7M Congressional Use of Foreign Currency ...
  3 days ago

• Listening To Young Americans On The Deficit

  
  Conservative Blog: Urban Conservative 2.0 - Conservative News & Politics — Authority: 132
  You wouldnt think the bottom line on the $1.6 trillion federal budget deficit and $11.9 trillion national debt crisis could be summed up in a single sentence, but when the right words whizzed by, the Wall Street Journals David Wessel was quick to point them out. Words to remember, in a speech by Douglas ...
  3 days ago

• Congress Looks to Insert Itself into the Debt "Problem"

  
  The Fine Print: blog posts from OMBWatch — Authority: 134
  Ugh oh, a recent article in National Journal (subscription required) quotes several members of Congress, including Senate Budget Chair Sen. Kent Conrad (D-ND) and Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA), expressing strong interest in the creation of a bi-partisan debt-reduction commission with binding recommendation powers to ...
  3 days ago

• MSNBC’s Dubious Insinuation of Job Data Manipulation

  
  The Fine Print: blog posts from OMBWatch — Authority: 134
  A paragraph in an article written by Mike Stuckey on MSNBC.com insinuates that the White House manipulated the Recovery.gov job count total to match its previous claims of job growth numbers. I cant tell if Stuckey simply has his facts wrong, is intending to mislead to create controversy, or has been misled by an ...
  4 days ago

• Omnibus Appropriations Bill More and More Likely

  
  The Fine Print: blog posts from OMBWatch — Authority: 134
  A story in The Hill this morning relays an increasingly likely scenario in Congress: legislators will use an omnibus appropriations bill to finish spending work this year. The article cites the molasses-like speed at which the Senate has worked to pass its remaining appropriations bills. With the second stopgap ...
  4 days ago

• Reid Suggests "Jobs" Bill

  
  The Fine Print: blog posts from OMBWatch — Authority: 134
  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has floated the idea of putting together a new economic stimulus spending/tax cut bill in an effort to slow further deterioration in the jobs market. Roll Call : Senate Democrats will take up a new job-creation bill in the wake of the 10.2 percent unemployment rate, ...
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• Forex Daily Outlook – November 12th 2009

  
  Forex Crunch — Authority: 435
  After remembrance day, the calendar is busy once again, with employment figures from the US and Australia standing out. Let’s see what awaiting us:A big drama was seen in Britain yesterday, with good employment figures helping the Pound, before Mervyn King sent it down. GBP/USD is back down at 1.6574. Today, no ...
  4 days ago

• Peter Orszag on the Tough Specifics of Deficit Reduction

  
  EconomistMom.com — Authority: 513
  The President’s budget director, Peter Orszag, was on NPR’s Morning Edition on Wednesday morning.  He talked about the really difficult fiscal policy dilemma the federal government faces right now–dealing with both an unusually severe recession and a worsening longer-term budget outlook (emphasis added): ...
  4 days ago

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