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Nightly Business Report Discusses the Fiscal Cliff
Read moreOn Monday night, Nightly Business Report dedicated a full 25 minute video to discussing the fiscal cliff. The segment involved many different...
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Recommendations for "Grown-up" Lawmakers
Read moreIn a Washington Post column entitled "It's Time for the Grown-Ups to Step Up in Washington," Fortune magazine senior editors Allan Sloan and Geoff...
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Op-Ed: "A Problem Too Big for Small Solutions"
Read moreThe New York Times | August 29, 2012 The federal debt is the nation’s most pressing economic problem because our dangerously high debt levels are a...
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Op-Ed: "We Need Growth, and Growth Requires Reform"
Read moreThe New York Times | August 29, 2012 Getting our economy growing is our most pressing economic problem. But there can be no sustainable economic...
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Wessel: With Health Care It's About How, Not How Much
Read moreWe have talked before about the long run unsustainable growth of our health care spending. But when it comes to controlling Medicare and Medicaid...
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New York Times: "Is the Deficit Urgent, or a Distraction?"
Read moreThe New York Times' "Room for Debate" this week takes on our federal debt with a forum entitled " Is the Deficit Urgent, or a Distraction?" Writing in...
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Fitch: Fiscal Cliff Threatens Triple-A Rating
Read moreFitch Ratings Managing Director David Riley appeared yesterday on Bloomberg Television, suggesting that the fiscal cliff could threaten the U.S.'s AAA...
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Fiscal Responsibility Questions For The Election
Read moreConsidering our nation's debt situation, it is more important that ever to ensure that those seeking office have a plan to take on the issue. It's why...
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Governor Jeb Bush Supports Simpson-Bowles
Read moreFormer Governor Jeb Bush (R-FL) declared his support for Simpson-Bowles in a recent interview with the Tampa Bay Times, in order to begin taking on...
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A Mutual Non-Aggression Pact for the Campaigns?
Read moreA recent editorial from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch argues for what they call a "mutual non-aggression pact on spending and deficits." In their view...
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Will We Get Another 1986 Soon?
Read moreElaine Kamarck and James Pinkerton, co-chairs of The RATE Coalition, a bipartisan group dedicated to promote tax reform, write in today's The Hill...