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Now that the government shutdown and debt-ceiling brinksmanship has been averted (for now), the $20+ TRILLION question remains:  what are w...

As we have noted in the previous article , the risk of the next big economic crash continues to loom large, and it may be too late to actual...

Looks like Congress finally passed a budget deal to get us through the next two years, just in time for the holidays.  The deal was made b...

It's official.  The questionable study that was used to justify draconian austerity measures in several nations (including our own) and ...

The sequester has now been in place for over a month, and it is already beginning to do damage to our still fragile economy.  As we have no...

It looks like the sequester will go through, at least for a while, before Congress gets their act together (if they ever do).   Republicans ...

Our national debt is approaching $16 TRILLION dollars, and our deficit remains well over a trillion, meaning that the debt is still growing ...

In our previous post , we essentially debunked the right-wing talking points about the Laffer Curve.  We showed that, generally speaking, th...

Most people (at least those who took Econ 101) have heard of the Laffer Curve.  This idea is often attributed to economist Arthur Laffer in...

As we approach our debt ceiling, we need to realize the unsustainability of our current fiscal policies.  Our national debt is a whopping $1...