Managing to perform below the already-low bar set by recent precedent, Congress will not finish work on any FY 2011 appropriations bills before the...

Today, the House passed HR 5297, the small business bill that had been stalled in Congress for weeks. It is expected that President Obama will sign it...

The September growth play picked up speed at the end of the week, as markets liked stronger than expected US business investment data from August...

It's that time of year again, when people start asking whether Social Security recipients will receive a Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA). And it...

Today the Republican caucus of the House of Representatives released an agenda-setting document as a part of its strategy to take control of the House...

The Center for American Progress released a paper yesterday titled " A Thousand Cuts." The paper aims to show how deep policymakers would have to cut...

The remarkable level of austerity proposed in Britain’s new emergency budget made news around the world (see our earlier blog for details) as, in the...

Attemping to show how deep policymakers would have to cut spending to reduce the deficit to primary balance in 2015, the Center for American Progress...

Today, the Fed widened the door further toward easing monetary policy (presumably in the form of additional quantitative easing). The Fed's shift...

Today, the National Bureau of Economic Research announced in a statement that the recession that began in December of 2007 had ended in June of 2009...

With Congress back in session, the mid-term election right around the corner, and a looming expiration, the debate of the 2001-2003 tax cuts is...

Falling Into Pieces – Fall officially begins this week. A short congressional calendar and the quickly-approaching elections mean that the legislative...