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Budget Battles

  • 68 Percent Hit Obama Over Gas Prices

    By Patricia Zengerle, Reuters

    More than two-thirds of Americans disapprove of the way President Barack Obama is handling high gasoline prices, although most do not blame him for them, according to a Reuters/Ipsos online poll...

  • How Obamacare Derailed the Economic Recovery

    By Liz Peek

    Here we go again. All eyes are on the Supreme Court as it wrestles with whether or not President Obama’s healthcare bill is constitutional. The country is divided on the merits of the law, but this...

  • Jobs: A New Look at the So-called 'New Normal'

    By Mark Thoma

    All the king’s horses and all the king’s men won’t be able to put the economy back together again. That was the belief after the 2001 recession. The stock market bubble had collapsed, and the common...

  • The Entitled States of America: We Want More!

    By Charles Sykes, Wisconsin Policy Institute

    Milton Friedman may have argued that there is no such thing as a free lunch, but you’d have a hard time convincing millions of Americans of that today. They know better – or at least they think they...

  • Guess Who Wants to Kill Corporate Tax Reform

    By Michelle Hirsch, The Fiscal Times

    On the surface, large, publicly traded, U.S. firms appear united in their desire to push for corporate tax reform. But the likelihood that large multinational firms like GE, Pfizer, and Google might...