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Budget Battles

  • Fiscal Cliff: Defense Cuts Threaten a Brain Drain

    By David Lawder, Reuters

    The uncertainty over automatic cuts in U.S. defense spending to be triggered in January because of congressional inaction has spread to the engineers and project managers in South Florida's aerospace...

  • Ryan Takes Personal Approach on Medicare

    By FELICIA SONMEZ, The Washington Post

    In a speech that appeared intended to quell doubts among seniors about his proposal to overhaul Medicare, GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan took a deeply personal approach Saturday morning in...

  • Election 2012: Now a Referendum on Medicare

    By Bruce Bartlett, The Fiscal Times

    Last week, I had a day all pundits dread—I made a confident prediction that Mitt Romney would not choose Paul Ryan as his running mate. Less than 24 hours later, he did exactly that. Obviously, my...

  • College Dreams Are Dashed by the Housing Bust

    By Josh Boak, The Fiscal Times

    As if the aftershocks of the 2008 housing crisis hadn’t already been reverberating loudly across college campuses, a growing body of research now finds that the repercussions of the meltdown are...

  • Fact Check: Dems Lie about Ryan's Medicare Plan

    By Liz Peek

    Democrats have either decided that lying to the American public is perfectly OK, or they haven’t done their homework. I’m not sure which is worse. Since the announcement that Wisconsin Representative...