by Linda Beale Republican “fiscal cliff” proposal House republican leaders have sent a letter to President Obama with their “fiscal cliff” proposal, which the Republicans cast as a “fair middle…

by Linda Beale Karl Rove on the so-called “fiscal cliff” In a video interview available from Dow Jones/Wall Street Journal, “Karl Rove Doubts a Fiscal Cliff Deal Will Get Done”…

…elections: In case Mr. Romney hasn’t seen my question. let me restate it. How will you address the long-run fiscal problem, that is, will you raise income taxes or will…

…“non-fiscal” anti-union piece from the fiscal components of the bill. The non-fiscal piece did not require a quorum, so the Senate was able to pass it. This may not pass…

…The Senate version is called Conrad-Gregg for short and was introduced by the Senators in a Sept 2007 Op-Ed A bipartisan approach to America’s greatest fiscal challenge. They describe the…

…has been a very broad consensus that it is better to stabilize using monetary policy than fiscal policy. This does not imply that economists agreed that fiscal stimulus doesn’t work….

…strong negative relation between the relative level of federal spending and the relative level of federal revenues in the sample 1981-2000 … What happened in federal fiscal politics that might…

…will get resolved. The real fiscal problem is Medicare,” Greenspan said. “I’m fearful we have already committed more that we can afford.” So it is time for a “Medicare commission?”…

…comment from Greg Mankiw on our fiscal future. Greg reminds us that we have to choose between reducing entitlement growth versus imposing taxes even higher than what we saw during…

…also get even more brazen fiscal dishonesty from the House Republican crowd – who wish to buy the 2006 election with even more tax cuts for the rich. Via Mark…