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IN THE MOVIE Groundhog Day, Bill Murray's character is forced to relive a single day over and over and over-waking up to the same song every morning, meeting the same [...]

AMONG THE MANY ritual ablutions a Republican presidential contender must perform is the signing of Grover Norquist's 'Taxpayer Protection Pledge,' a document the length and subtlety of a bumper sticker [...]

You may remember the moment when Barack Obama declared war on the Republican game plan--or so it seemed. Five days after negotiating a budget-cutting deal that averted a government shutdown [...]

ITEM: An Education Week blog for February 14, in a piece entitled 'Obama Proposes Modest Hike in Education Spending for FY 2012,' reported that 'education is a bright spot in [...]

When newly elected Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) proposed cutting aid to Israel, the howls of protest from all across the bipartisan political spectrum were painfully revealing. Matthew Brooks, executive director [...]

Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future by Robert B. Reich. Knopf. 2010. 192 pages. $25. The inequality of wealth in the United States will result in a stagnant economy [...]

THE GROWTH OF GOVERNMENT in America has not been gradual. Rather, government spending has remained a consistent fraction of our economy except for periodic dramatic bursts to new, and too [...]

PRESIDENT OBAMA'S BUDGET PROPOSES all-time record federal spending of $3,834 trillion for fiscal 2011, up 29 percent from fiscal 2008 and 40 percent from fiscal 2007, which was the last [...]

ITEM: President Barack Obama, reported the Bloomberg news agency for July 11, "said his $787 billion stimulus bill 'has worked as intended' as he pushed back against Republican criticism that […]

TUESDAY I AM SITTING IN THE STUDY OF MY HOME in Rancho Mirage. My glorious dogs, Brigid and Cleo, are sitting on the couch staring at me. Words cannot describe [...]

Issues concerning the economic effects of federal budget deficits are discussed. In particular it is argued that the technology boom of the 1990s was not caused by reduced deficits and there is no link between deficits and interest rates.

Issues regarding the price deflation in 2001 in the United States are discussed, with focus on the state of the economy and the pricing pressures felt in industries. Ways of balancing the deflationary tendencies are examined, including the lowering of interest rates.

'Economic inequality' is to be the great theme of the remainder of the Obama administration, the president announced in a speech that combined rank economic ignorance with shallow demagoguery. And [...]

Byline: Michael Hirsh Every Federal Reserve Board chairman comes into office with a secret agenda, a hidden passion. It's the sort of thing you don't hear about at the confirmation [...]

Byline: Catherine Hollander Two years ago, President Obama declared to the residents of an eastern Las Vegas neighborhood, 'We can't wait for an increasingly dysfunctional Congress to do its job. [...]

Byline: Nancy Cook When Daniel Tarullo arrived at the Federal Reserve Board in January 2009, the economy was still in a free fall. The country had shed 3.6 million jobs [...]

Byline: Patrick Reis and Catherine Hollander Ben Bernanke has spent half of a decade trying to coax investors out of their postrecession bunkers. Now, Congress is set to send them [...]

The deficit has dropped. The main cause, it seems, has been a revenue surge as taxpayers moved income into 2012 to escape the higher taxes imposed at the start of [...]

There are many compelling reasons to mint a trillion-dollar coin, including 'plot device for Mission: Impossible 5.' The coin has been stolen, and nefarious enemies of the United States intend [...]

Perhaps no issue in financial reform is more important to the public than the need to end bank bailouts, which only shift losses from banks and investors to taxpayers. Just [...]

Barack Obama wrings an 11th-hour deal on taxes from John Boehner and the Republicans, but accomplishes little else THE deal to avert the fiscal cliff had not yet been sealed [...]