Obama Targets Budget Deficit
washingtonpost.com 2/22/2009 — Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or other inappropriate comments or material will be removed from the site. Additionally, entries that are unsigned or contain "signatures" by someone other than the actual author will be removed. ...

Video - Obama: Economy First, Deficit Later
marketnewslive.blogspot.com 1/8/2009 — 01/08/09 Obama's pledge to restore fiscal discipline in Washington will have to wait until the economy is back on track.

The politics of the recession - Gloom offensive
economist.com 2/14/2009 — FOR a man whose bumper stickers promised “Hope not Fear”, Barack Obama knows how to scare people. “If we don’t act immediately,” he told the citizens of Elkhart, Indiana on February 9th, “our nation will sink into a crisis that, at some point, we may ...

Obama Budget: Higher Taxes, Healthcare, and a Deficit Mystery
businesspundit.com 2/26/2009 — President Barack Obama presented his budget plan to Congress today. CNN reports on the Obama budget: One high-profile proposal involves closing the loophole that has allowed some Wall Street investment managers to pay lower tax rates than their low-paid assistants. Wall Street lobbyists have ...

U.S. Budget Deficit: Heading for $1.6 Trillion
calculatedriskblog.com 2/11/2009 — From MarketWatch: U.S. Jan. budget deficit $84.0 bln vs $17.8 surplus yr-ago The government reported a deficit of $84.0 billion in January ... [compared to] a surplus of $17.84 billion in the same month one year ago. Lower corporate taxes are ...

U.S. Trade Deficit Graphs
calculatedriskblog.com 1/25/2009 — “President Obama — backed by the conclusions of a broad range of economists — believes that China is manipulating its currency.” Treasury Secretary nominee Tim Geithner, Jan 22, 2009 I'm just thinking about some trades issues, and here a few graphs ...

Federal Bankruptcy Watch: US Federal Deficit Hits $1 Trillion For First Half Of FY2009
dailybail.com 4/8/2009 — The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released mid-year deficit figures earlier this week.  The numbers are shocking but not surprising given the estimates. We are well on our way to a $2 trillion deficit for this year. I suspect it will be closer to $2.5 trillion as I wrote 6 weeks ...

Democrats Push for Plan to Cut Deficit
nytimes.com 11/1/2009 — Senator Kent Conrad, a co-sponsor of a plan to create a deficit-cutting commission says, “It is imperative that we act.”

Obama Declares War on Investors, Entrepreneurs, Businesses, and More
kudlowsmoneypolitics.blogspot.com 2/28/2009 — Let me be very clear on the economics of President Obama’s State of the Union speech and his budget. He is declaring war on investors, entrepreneurs, small businesses, large corporations, and private-equity and venture-capital funds. That is the ...

What is a deficit hawk to do?
gregmankiw.blogspot.com 2/28/2009 — I love the title of the Obama administration's budget document, "A New Era of Responsibility." But do the numbers back up the marketing? In particular, should deficit hawks rejoice in this new found responsibility in the nation's capital? Are we about ...

Much Ado About Cutting — The Big Money
President Obama’s budget outline to Congress has to do a lot of things at once—begin to build some of the major investments he spoke about on Tuesday, in energy, education, and health care; account for the middle-class tax relief he has pledged for ...

Foodies Cheer USDA Prime Choice — The Big Money
Among "sustainable food" advocates, the reaction to President Obama's choice of former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack as Secretary of Agriculture has been tepid at best . But as Tom Philpott of Grist noted on Tuesday, it's the deputy secretary "who ...

Obama To Take Swipe at Deficit — The Big Money
The story du jour is Obama's intention to decrease the federal deficit by half, or to $533 billion, by the end of his first term, a plan that will be officially outlined when he presents a budget Thursday to Congress for the 2010 fiscal year. Most ...

Faster Than a Speeding Budget — The Big Money
Today’s budget outline from President Obama isn’t just a story of complex policy trade-offs; it’s an act of glorious imagination—an epic story with the Office of Management and Budget’s Peter Orszag playing the role of nerdy clockmaker. “With great ...

Get Your (Not-So) Free Grant Money! — The Big Money
Meet Kevin Hoeffer. Kevin is an altruistic man who just received $12,759.62 from the federal government. He wants all of the readers of his blog— kevin-gets-grants.com —to be able to do the same. So he points the way to a free grant kit (plus ...