President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner may be close to agreeing on a plan that, among other things, would revise the way government programs...
Yesterday, I described President Eisenhower’s remarkable success in turning a large deficit in fiscal 1959 into a balanced budget in 1960. It was one of...
The election results did not change the political status quo, and the status quo has not been conducive to solving the nation’s festering fiscal problems...
Normally, at the end of each year, investors sell stock (and other assets) to recognize losses to offset gains recognized earlier in the year. Sometimes...
With fiscal cliff talks seemingly stalled (at least today) , there has been growing talk that House Republicans would call President Obama’s bluff and simply...
Despite the ideological hype over revenue increases for the upper-income taxpayers and restricting itemized tax deductions, almost all the considered changes will tackle only a...
Starting today, it is legal to smoke marijuana in Washington State . That got me thinking: Could taxing stoners help balance state budgets? The answer...