JUNE 26, 2010 The Keynesian Dead End Spending our way to prosperity is going out of style. Today’s G-20 meeting has been advertised as a showdown between the U.S. and Europe over more spending “stimulus,” and so it is. But the larger story is the end of the neo-Keynesian economic moment, and perhaps the start […]
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Economic View – Can’t Cut Spending? Look Around the Globe – NYTimes.com April 16, 2010 Can’t Cut Spending? Look Around the Globe By TYLER COWEN AMERICA’S long-run fiscal outlook is bleak, mostly because of an aging population and rising health care costs. To close the gap between expenditures and revenue, we’ll likely see a combination
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RealClearMarkets – Print Version #pending_subscriptions { display: none; } March 30, 2010 By Josh Barro Here’s some good news for New Jersey residents, who pay more in state and local taxes than people anywhere else in the United States: earlier this month, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie released a budget proposal that contains no tax
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OPINION: DECLARATIONS MARCH 6, 2010 By PEGGY NOONAN It is now exactly a year since President Obama unveiled his health-care push and his decision to devote his inaugural year to it—his branding year, his first, vivid year. What a disaster it has been. At best it was a waste of history’s time, a struggle that
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Paul Ryan’s Moment The Wisconsin Congressman bests his critics. BY Matthew Continetti March 4, 2010 10:26 AM ShareThis This is Paul Ryan’s moment. If national security or social policy were at the center of debate, the Wisconsin congressman wouldn’t be nearly as prominent as he is today. But President Obama wants to reshape the American
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The 2007 Solution Fred Barnes Tue Feb 16, 4:04 pm ET Washington (The Weekly Standard) Vol. 015, Issue 21 – 02/15/2010 – Republican senator George LeMieux of Florida has done the math. If government spending were reduced to its 2007 level, we’d have a balanced budget (with a $163 billion surplus). Returning to the 2008 level of spending, the
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Senator Coburn’s plan was simple- His amendment would have capped the federal debt and immediately reduced federal spending by at least $120 billion by consolidating more than 640 duplicative government programs, cutting wasteful Washington spending and returning billions of dollars of unspent money. Friday, February 12, 2010 The Washington Times MCCLUSKY: Wild waste flows in
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