White House

Budget Battles

  • The Obamacare Rebate: Health Care Savings or Ruse

    By John F. Wasik, The Fiscal Times

    I received my health insurance rebate in the mail the other day – all $73.78 of it. While this check didn't put much of a dent in the $6,300 a year ($529.88 per month) I pay for my family's health...

  • Obama Reneges on Letting You Keep Your Health Plan

    By Liz Peek

    Sometimes it takes a Big Bang – a startling event -- to wake up voters. The collapse of the auto industry was just such a shocker, revealing how our high labor costs had crushed U.S. manufacturers...

  • Three Ways Obama Will Ace His Housing Speech

    By Josh Boak, The Fiscal Times

    President Obama lays out his vision Tuesday for winding down the mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac—almost five years after the housing bust wrecked the economy and the two companies became...

  • The Reason Voters Choose Power-Hungry Presidents

    By Futurity Org, Futurity-Org

    In order to understand the behavior of U.S. presidents, it is necessary to recognize that a president’s core interest is in acquiring power, and holding on to it, a new book by William G. Howell...

  • Obama to Claim Some Credit for Housing Rebound

    By Mark Felsenthal, Reuters

    With images of vacant, half-built residential developments that gathered dust after the Great Recession, the U.S. Southwest once symbolized the 2008-2012 housing bust that wiped out $7 trillion in...