Shadowstats has announced this tidbit. The Department of Commerce (DOC) has decided to discontinue its economic indicators service Economic indicators due to ‘budgetary constraints’. Shadow Government Statistics is pleased to…

I’d like to get back to a problem that I was writing about last week: the possibility of using a value-added tax (VAT) to fix the “on-budget” federal budget deficit….

…that Mr. Nugent learned his rightwing bastardization of Keynesian economics from a comedian: economists admit that a budget deficit acts as a stimulus to economic growth and that a budget…

…a perfect chance for Greenspan to talk about the dangers inherent in the large and sustained structural budget deficit in the US. While it is true that reducing the budget…

…enforce section 482, which is something President Bush wishes to address. Rather than bash the Administration, let’s support his efforts to convince the House GOP leadership to provide more funding…

The usually staid David Broder, teeing off on this report from the CBPP: Back-to-back briefings last week put a harsh spotlight on the deep hole left by the budget policies…

I highly recommend this oped, which sensibly concludes: This brings us back to personal Social Security accounts. Every dollar that goes into those accounts rather than into the Treasury is…

Those Wacky Liberals at The Economist (and they’re anonymous!) On Bush’s budget: “George Bush presented Congress with a $2.4 trillion budget for the next. Think of it as a campaign…

Calculating the Cause of the Budget Deficit You can check out a thorough decomposition of the causes of the US budget deficit at The American Street. The punchline: the state…

…Bush, Federal Spending has skyrocketed. It was $1.86 trillion under Clinton’s last budget but 2.01 trillion under Bush’s first budget. Under Bush’s third budget (authored with a Republican House, Republican…