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Fiscal Future Daily: Bernanke Explains; 6 Questions To Ask Of Any Budget Plan; Bipartisan Opportunities

AUTHOR: FiscalFutureDaily, Site Administrator
Nov 04, 2010

Ben Bernanke takes to the Op-Ed pages to explain why the Federal Reserve is giving the economy a $600 billion boost; we offer an objective yardstick for judging the wisdom of the many budget proposals we’ll all be seeing as the 111th Congress does a noisy fadeout and the 112th Congress takes control; thoughts from [...]

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Fiscal Future Daily: A Big GOP Win, What the Exit Polls Tell Us, and Free Advice From Every Side

AUTHOR: FiscalFutureDaily, Site Administrator
Nov 03, 2010

Famously, Election Day is “the only poll that matters,” and that poll came up big for the Republicans last night. But while fiscal responsibility was a big issue in the campaign, there’s a long history of balking when it comes to actually make the choices that need to be made on taxes and spending. Yesterday’s [...]

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Fiscal Future Daily: The Lack of Calm Before The Storm

AUTHOR: FiscalFutureDaily, Site Administrator
Nov 02, 2010

No one in the media is really focused on the budget today, because they’re all focused on who’s going to be in charge of the budget tomorrow, after the election returns are in. And that’s okay. Most of what can be said has already been said (check out previous editions of Fiscal Future Daily if [...]

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Fiscal Future Daily: Possible Bargain on the Bush Tax Cuts, Stirrings of Bipartisanship, and Economic Wisdom from Jaws

AUTHOR: FiscalFutureDaily, Site Administrator
Nov 01, 2010

The newest budget news is that Obama administration is looking at a fallback plan for the Bush tax cuts – set to expire at the end of the year, and the biggest fiscal decision that’s going to be made before a new Congress is sworn in. There’s some hint of compromise here, and overall we [...]

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Fiscal Future Daily: So What Does the Public Want?

AUTHOR: FiscalFutureDaily, Site Administrator
Oct 28, 2010

The fundamental question about the federal budget isn’t how to make the numbers add up; it’s how to make the numbers add up and still represent what the public thinks is important. The federal budget is how we set priorities for the government, and those priorities belong to the public. So the most interesting budget [...]

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Fiscal Future Daily: Compromise, Carbon Taxes, and People You’ve Never Heard Of

AUTHOR: FiscalFutureDaily, Site Administrator
Oct 27, 2010

Welcome to Fiscal Future Daily, the new update from the Choosing Our Fiscal Future initiative. Our nation’s budget is on an unsustainable path, and we’re heading into a critical period in deciding what to do about it: a new Congress will be elected next week, a presidential deficit commission is set to report soon, and [...]

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Fiscal Future Daily: Assessing the Morning After, Ahead of the Night Before

AUTHOR: FiscalFutureDaily, Site Administrator
Oct 26, 2010

The midterm election hasn’t even happened yet, and already there’s coverage of what the results might mean for the federal budget and national debt. Our crystal ball isn’t any better than anybody else’s, but the fundamental challenge is going to remain the same after the election as it is now. There are lots of practical [...]

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