…they mean the Federal Budget Deficit, though they don’t mind confusing you by using the word “deficit” to mean different things from one line to the next. The Federal Budget…

…Chait, then Chait rabidly reads a budget resolution (if you ever see a dog reading a budget resolution, turn around and walk away). The underlying problem here is a massive…

…mid-1990s, Democrats proposed to balance the Medicare budget by limiting fees paid to physicians for services, while Republicans sought to contain the costs by transferring the program to managed care…

…annually, with slightly smaller appropriations in the first few years as the program scaled up. This would be the only federal budget item dedicated to prevention and public health activities….

…federal Bureau of the Budget issued Budget Circular A-47, severely restricting the use of secondary benefits. Hufschmidt described A-47 as a “conservative document” that was regarded as imposing “severe restraint”…

…perspective you take. From a macroeconomic viewpoint, the Greek saga is one of austere budget polices imposed on the Greek government by the “troika” of the International Monetary Fund, the…

…tax-guzzling military budget that probably could be cut in half, if only we had the gumption to do it). So the right-wing effort to “drown the government in a bathtub”…

Via Econospeak from Sandwichman:…

…proposed to balance the Medicare budget by limiting fees paid to physicians for services, while Republicans sought to contain the costs by transferring the program to managed care insurers and…

…Vought as the right hand man to Mick Mulvaney’s at the Office of Management and Budget. Wonder why he would do this? Apparently Senator Coryn believes there should be more…