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fiscal policy

Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox
I suspect that by early next week, the sequester will be old news. We’ll be on to the next crisis—the impending government shutdown scheduled for...
March 1, 2013Howard Gleckman
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox
On Wednesday, the House will vote on a bill to delay the upcoming debt limit showdown . The bill includes no spending cuts, no tax...
January 22, 2013Donald Marron
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox
Jim Hamilton's Mock Up of a Trillion Dollar Coin Policy wonks are debating whether a trillion-dollar platinum coin would be a clever or insane way...
January 8, 2013Donald Marron
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox
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...
December 18, 2012Rudolph G. Penner
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms: TaxVox
We now know more about Joe and Jill Biden’s dating history than we do about what Biden and Barack Obama would do in a second...
September 7, 2012Howard Gleckman