Sequestration – the series of automatic spending cuts that went into effect March 1 – came not with a bang but a whimper. The Obama administration did its best to argue that the cuts would have drastic consequences, almost implying that we’d ha...
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Sequestration – the series of automatic spending cuts that went into effect March 1 – came not with a bang but a whimper. The Obama administration did its best to argue that the cuts would have drastic consequences, almost implying that we’d ha...
RI State House (photo by author) Last weekend, I attended the Rhode Island Fiscal Summit, sponsored by a Brown student group called Common Sense Action. The group hopes to bridge the partisan divide about the national debt (good luck with that!)....
RI State House (photo by author) Last weekend, I attended the Rhode Island Fiscal Summit, sponsored by a Brown student group called Common Sense Action. The group hopes to bridge the partisan divide about the national debt (good luck with that!)....
House Republicans signaled they will vote on a three-month hike to the nation’s debt ceiling sometime this week. For those still curious, here’s your primer on the debt ceiling. When will we hit the debt ceiling? We already kind of hit the debt c...
House Republicans signaled they will vote on a three-month hike to the nation’s debt ceiling sometime this week. For those still curious, here’s your primer on the debt ceiling. When will we hit the debt ceiling? We already kind of hit the debt c...
Editor’s Note: The following guest column comes to us from Graham Sheridan, master of public affairs candidate at Brown University’s Taubman Center for Public Policy. Image by Bjoertvedt As Congress comes to the teetering edge of the fi...
Editor’s Note: The following guest column comes to us from Graham Sheridan, master of public affairs candidate at Brown University’s Taubman Center for Public Policy. Image by Bjoertvedt As Congress comes to the teetering edge of the fi...
My tour of European austerity’s next stop is Germany. However, I have criticized austerity without putting it into context. I have simply assumed it is a bad thing, and avoided entering a discussion on what austerity is and does. This is unfair. So...
My tour of European austerity’s next stop is Germany. However, I have criticized austerity without putting it into context. I have simply assumed it is a bad thing, and avoided entering a discussion on what austerity is and does. This is unfair. So...
“The first thing the government does in an election year,” former Greek finance minister George Papaconstantinou admitted in 2009, “is to pull the tax collectors off the streets.” I think this statement has a lot to say about Greek debt, and ...
“The first thing the government does in an election year,” former Greek finance minister George Papaconstantinou admitted in 2009, “is to pull the tax collectors off the streets.” I think this statement has a lot to say about Greek debt, and ...