…the Obama budget to the Bush budget. But I suspect a comparison to the Reagan budget would be more meaningful in that both Obama and Reagan began their administrations with…

rdan The new budget 2010. Not sure where to start….

…Maya MacGuinneas, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget Karen Davis, Common Wealth Fund Bob Bixby, Concord Coalition Maya Rockeymoore, Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Doug Elmendorf, Congressional Budget Office Marty Ford,…

…is assumed in the Administration’s Budget over the next 10 years—the President achieves “maximum possible debt retirement” in his budget. They stuck to the story line for quite a while……

by ilsm This week I expand upon my response to 2Slugbaits’ comments to the excellent post Army navy air force Marines Budget; Peace in our Times by Robert Waldmann ….

AB reader Fred C. Dobbs directs us to the Economic Assumptions chapter for the President’s budget. Starting on page 171, we see: When the economy is operating below potential, the…

…in 2009. Ambitious as those promises are, they may be mathematically impossible, budget and policy analysts say…But in an independent analysis of that budget, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office concluded…

…As PGL pointed out in the preceeding post — will be untrue. EPI, Max Sawicky’s employer, has a new report out, The Budget Arithmetic Test, that’s worth a look. AB…

Umm, Well, About Those Budget Cuts We Said Wouldn’t Happen… A few months ago the White House denied that they were intending budget cuts across the board for domestic programs…

…Glen Lafollette and Louise Sheiner and reported at Naked Capitalism “Fed Budget Experts Demolish CBO Healthcare Cost Model, the Lynchpin of Budget Hysteria” which was later contacted by Elemendorf’s staff….