RJS, MarketWatch 666 1st Quarter GDP Shrunk at a 1.4% Rate on a Record Trade Deficit and Slower Growth of Inventories Our economy shrunk at a 1.4% rate in the…

…which means the federal government must borrow money to cover its expenses. Deficit and Debt: What are they? A deficit occurs when the federal government spends more money in a…

Jonathon Portes on macroeconomics and the deficit: As we all know, since then both the US and UK have had deficits running at historically extremely high levels, and long-term interest…

by Linda Beale GOP Representative moves to increase deficit–and aid the investor class The GOP has made lots of fusses lately about the deficit. According to the party line, earned…

…officially “score” as savings that could be used to pay for spending elsewhere in the day-to-day budgets of domestic agencies. But they have little impact, if any, on the deficit….

…of gross domestic product (GDP)– more than double their current share. CBO report ready for hawking in year 2000. Was this before or after our deficit hawks started crowing in…

by Bruce Webb In recent weeks there has been some furor over the new push to tie an increase in the debt ceiling to the establishment of a new Deficit…

Gary Hart In Salon today, an interview of Gary Hart who, in 2000, co-chaired the little-publicized U.S. Commission on National Security: Hart was co-chair (with former Sen. Warren Rudman, R-N.H.)…

…the unions. The leaders of the Postal Service aren’t trying to reduce their labor costs just to deal with the postal deficit or to keep the big mailers happy. The…

…Euro-terminology). Since the alleged subsidies were not notified to the European Commission in advance as required by EU law, the Commission has ruled that Starbucks and Fiat have to repay…