…of Bowie’s oeuvre had provided a level of patronage that’s inconceivable for a musician of Bowie’s bent today…he spent the Nineties as a free agent, jumping from label to label,…

…high cost of American health care. I begin by explaining the origin and meaning of the “single payer” label. I will then describe the two defects in S 1129 in…

…protects the public from food-borne illnesses. It issues nutritional advice and drug labeling guidelines. It polices false medical claims on packaging and in advertisements. It safeguards about one in every…

OMB Watch reports here and here on the Transparency Through Technology: Evaluating Federal Open-Government Initiatives : Transparency Through Technology: Evaluating Federal Open-Government Initiatives and testimony here. OMB Watch recommends six…

OMB Watch suggests looking at projections first for talk on fiscal responsibility. Hence instead of talking idealogy first, go for the numbers. It is not BDS to use this years…

Lockbox Unlocked After visiting Pew’s site, I wandered over to the CBO where I found the latest Monthly Budget Review. It contains the current CBO (-$477b) and OMB ($-527b) deficit…

…is irresponsible. USA Today offered to let OMB write the opposing view to USA Today’s editorial, OMB declined, and so USA Today got Blunt to do it. That explains why…

…to that question I would refer you to the Historical Tables of the Budget for Fiscal Year 2014 as published by OMB. http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/budget/fy2014/assets/hist.pdf (2.2 MB) If you scroll down the…

…calculation are in the data appendix.) Figure C shows current forecasts for growth in real (inflation-adjusted) GDP from the CBO and from the Trump administration’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB)….

…X Friday afternoon, referring to “reductions in force.”  An OMB spokesperson confirmed the layoff notices were going out and would be “substantial.” Around 4,200 employees were laid off in total…