Washington, Wall Street, and everything in between. Policymakers and the financial services community think about each other all the time, but neither really understands what the other is doing. This blog, written by Stan Collender, is intended to change that.
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Yesterday, Mort Zuckerman, owner of the New York Daily News, exercised his prerogative by publishing an essay in that publication complaining that "Obama's spending and borrowing leaves U.S. gasping for air."
This is common criticism...
U.S. ethanol policy embodies all the classic conflicts between politics and economics. This morning’s New York Times signals that Congress’s mandate on refiners to use 12.6 billion gallons of ethanol in 2011 will be “mathematically...
www.forbes.com/2009/11/25/shared-sacrifice-war-taxes-opinions-columnists-bruce-bartlett.html
The Cost of War
Are Americans willing to pay it?
Bruce Bartlett
In recent years, Republicans have been characterized by two principal positions: They...
Next week, the White House is expected to release a proposal for simplifying the tax system. In the hopes that this will lead to a discussion of tax reform, which all tax experts believe is badly needed, I have compiled a list of full-text online tax...
The BEA has released the preliminary (or second estimate) GDP figures for the third quarter. Compared to the advance estimates released at the end of last month, the annual growth rate is down from 3.5 to 2.8 percent.
The second estimate of the...
Two articles on funding additional troops in Afghanistan, both of which were published yesterday, raise some of the most interesting and tricky federal budget-related issues of the year.
The first, from the Los Angeles Times, points out that the cost...
