Budget deficit

Two profoundly un-ambitious budget plans
Commentary | Craig Gurian | Budget deficit
July 13, 2011 — You can’t go five minutes without reading press accounts that characterize the Obama-Boehner budgetary prescription — now’s the time to start on $4 trillion in debt reduction — as “...view
Second 'kudos' for NYT's Kocieniewski
Kudos | Remapping Debate | Budget deficit, Corporate influence, Taxes
June 22, 2011 — Remapping Debate isn’t shy about critiquing centrist-premised, don’t-bother-with-assessing-the-truth reporting in The New York Times. Like others, we see the Times as having an...view
Deficit-reduction advocates assess proper limits of bond market power
Original Reporting | Mike Alberti | Budget deficit, Markets
May 11, 2011 — Despite frequent shorthand in the press that conflates the interests of bond investors and the public (or associates bond investors with the value of “prudence”), it is widely...view
S&P: do what we want and no one gets hurt
Original Reporting | Mike Alberti | Budget deficit, Markets
May 4, 2011 — In 1993, as the newly inaugurated Clinton Administration worried that rising interest rates could hamper the President’s plan to stimulate the economy, Clinton adviser James Carville...view
Passing new bucks?
Original Reporting | Mike Alberti | Budget deficit, Economy, Taxes
March 16, 2011 — The township of Mount Holly is in central New Jersey, near the Delaware River. It has 9,536 residents, some of whom work across the river in Philadelphia. Last week, along with...view
Governors Christie and Cuomo: the "shared sacrifice" twins?
Leads | Remapping Debate | Budget deficit
February 23, 2011 — Both ask for shared sacrifice. Both demand deep cuts in Medicaid. Each draws the line at having that sacrifice include an income tax surcharge on the highest income residents of...view
Stop crying "fire" in the Social Security theater
Kudos | Remapping Debate | Budget deficit, Social Security
February 16, 2010 — Kudos to Mark Miller, a contributor to Reuters’s Prism Money blog, for his post Monday morning calling out NPR, the Associated Press, and NBC’s David Gregory for perpetuating the...view
Deficit hawks or just a fairy tale?
Press Criticism | Greg Marx | Budget deficit, Media, Politics
February 9, 2011 — My family hails from Germany on my father’s side. When I was growing up, we occasionally had markers of German heritage around the house — a box of spaetzle in the pantry, or a...view
Raising young deficit hawks
Original Reporting | James Lardner | Budget deficit, Education
February 3, 2011 — No one has done more than the billionaire private-equity investor Peter G. Peterson to stir America’s anxiety over deficits, debt, and what Peterson (among others) considers out...view

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