by Linda Beale Links worth noting Lynn Parrymore (Alternet, Naked Capitalism) on the difficulties in putting a stop to congressional insider trading: Can Rep. Bacchus and his money-crazed congressional colleagues…

…dropping 0.2 percentage point to 63.9 percent in July. This is, the Congressional Joint Economic Committee reports, “the lowest labor participation rate in the United States since January 1984.” [See…

…they going to get the job done? Like cutting by 20% the federal vehicle budget or cut in half the congressional printing and binding budget? What, we’re going to suddenly…

…hat tip to Naked Capitalism suggests this thought: Congressional Republicans appear to be quietly but methodically executing a plan that would a) avoid a federal bailout of spendthrift states and…

by Linda Beale crossposted with Ataxingmatter Dealing with the Sunset of the Bush Tax Cuts (Part II in a series) The Congressional Budget Office has published a report with its…

…started being shared with the Congressional Budget Office, also by statute and tradition a professional and non-partisan group of technocrats. What is more CBO formally agrees to accept OACT demographic…

…lede when again deeper into the body of the story we find there are no surprises and things are goiong as expected for the past three decades. “Indeed, the Congressional…

…Option For reasons I don’t understand, progressive pundits have been swallowing Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Elmendorf’s dispiriting speculation about the public plan, hook, line and sinker. Elmendorf claims that…

…of reform, the public plan will offer less expensive, higher quality coverage to millions of Americans. Congressional Budget Office director Douglas Elmendorf disagrees. He has been spreading misinformation about the…

…their calculations such a choice would not be financially advantageous to the worker. This was explained in a response of a congressional staffer to DOLBs email question: Any individual (but…