…depends on the perceptions of millions of financial traders, who presumably will be looking for any hint that he’s soft on inflation. Ironically, Trump’s loud insistence on lower interest rates,…

Think Progress offers a note of caution when we think we have reality nailed for government spending and results. And how ‘public displays’ by our politicians offer up little information:…

…respondents in a Public Agenda (2009) survey could not identify a fossil fuel. Nearly one third could not identify a renewable energy source and incorrectly believed that solar energy contributes…

…had such an important impact on public opinion, why doesn’t the public know more about the form of financing ? My reading of the evidence is that Medicare A through…

…Republican game plan for what it is: a concerted campaign to misinform the public about critical facts, knowing that the public will not know the accurate specifics, and aware that–as…

…be undifferentiated by class. What’s next, he asks–public libraries where goold card holders get first crack at new titles; public parks, where the elite get the cleanest, greenest spaces; public…

…of public affairs. Except, of course, that the data wasn’t already public. Public data is vetted; this had not been. So why was it released? Apparently, because no one asked…

Center for Business & Public Policy suggests some complications with public goods and taxes/fee for service in the case of the Obion county, Tenn. man and the fire department story….

…trillion in ‘Intragovernmental Holdings’ which in turn are scored as a portion of total ‘Public Debt’. The latter needs to be distinguished from ‘Debt Held by the Public’ which is…

Coast Guard Told Public Not to ‘Fixate’ On Rate of Spill While Sitting On Video videos show more clearly than ever how BP, with little resistance from the Coast Guard…