Trade Deficits, Tariffs, and Rare Earths
…president. “Tariffs and the U.S. Trade Deficit” Econcofact’s Weekend Reading Last week President Trump stated that tariffs had reduced the U.S. trade deficit by 78 percent and predicted that the…
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What caused the Budget Deficit (Before the Financial Crisis)?
…cut and spend policies. Responsibility for the Federal Budget Deficit, Angry Bear 2006. Deficits under Bush were projected for more than $500 billion annually. Of course, that was before the…
hundreds of billions = 0 ?
…for fiscal sustainability,” CBO director Douglas Elmendorf said Wednesday in testimony before Obama’s bipartisan commission on the deficit. small “relative to the journey that will be needed for fiscal sustainability”…
Obama and Regulatory Uncertainty
…two years of the Obama administration the number of pages in the Federal Register averaged 75,875 as compared to and average of 75,894 under Bush. So far Obama appears to…
Stop Acting Surprised
…weak and feeble, I’d like to repost something I wrote a few days after Obama was elected in its entirety below: Is Obama Starting Poorly? One of the things that…
Obama’s State of the Union Tax Proposals
by Linda Beale Obama’s State of the Union Tax Proposals President Obama delivered his first State of the Union speech tonight, assuring us that we could jump-start job creation through…
Tax Policy Center calls McCain campaign out for cheating.
…to their intelligence. Below their thoughts on what Obama really has in mind. Senator Obama’s proposal to exempt seniors with income below $50,000 from income tax but continue full taxation…
Apparently there’s a special place in hell for Democratic politicians who criticize Barack Obama as insufficiently progressive. And a special place in heaven for politicians who have accepted $133,246 from the private-prisons industry but tell Black and Hispanic voters at a debate shortly before the Nevada caucuses and South Carolina primary that they want to end the private-prison system.
…insurance system to eliminate private healthcare insurance for the benefits that the single-payer plan provides. As if the purpose of Obamacare was to create some living monument to Obama, rather…
“Kremlin: Obama’s Trump criticism anti-Russian, won’t foster better ties”
Wow, I don’t know quite what to say here but this is an honest to God headline from Reuter’s Kremlin: Obama’s Trump criticism anti-Russian, won’t foster better ties Now we…
Protesting Donald Trump
When Barack Obama became President, Republicans in Congress pledged to oppose him tooth and nail. That was a bad idea. It implied that they were hoping the President would fail….