Given how bleak every federal budget update has been over the last decade, it’d be really hard to make it markedly worse. And yet… The latest Congressional Budget Office (CBO) … READ MORE
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The 2010s Were a Decade of Endless Spending. What Will the 2020s Be?
It is an unfortunate commentary on the past decade that Americans concerned with the state of the nation’s finances have few heartening reflections to look back upon. A decade that … READ MORE
Five Scary Takeaways From This Week’s Budget Reports
Over the last week, the U.S. Treasury and the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) have released their scheduled budget updates. Given Congress’s past year of adding more spending increases and tax … READ MORE
Congress is Regifting Fiscal Insanity
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQAd_MeMiKw[/embed] With the holiday season at a close, all eyes are back on Washington with news about the impeachment effort against President Donald Trump, precarious foreign policy with Iran, and … READ MORE
How Do We Pay for the Medicare We Have Now?
When it comes to Medicare, the only subject circulating in the news these days is the debate over Medicare For All and whether there is any way to pay for … READ MORE
Lonely Stances for the Next Generation
News about the sorry state of America’s fiscal affairs is often so frequent and met with such an unenthusiastic response from our political leaders that the warnings appear anticlimactic. This … READ MORE
General Mattis is Worried About the Direction of Our Country. We Should Be Too.
Former Secretary of Defense and retired Marine Corps General Jim Mattis did a media circuit this week to promote the release of his new book on leadership, Call Sign Chaos. … READ MORE
Trillion Dollar Deficits as Far as the Analysts Can See
This week’s “Update to the Budget and Economic Outlook: 2019 to 2029” from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projected that the federal government will hit the trillion-dollar deficit mark in … READ MORE