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I put a short post on Wednesday that the Republicans ought to get a little something out of the debt limit rise.  Keith Hennessey has an Op...

Congratulations kiddos, the national debt clock to the right will likely cross the $16 trillion mark in the next few days. Happy trails. T...

The tea party movement still gets tagged with the racist label, which is of course total crap, but its main concern has been the U.S. debt b...

Well, no wonder they failed. In political terms, 2013 is a lifetime away. Obama will probably not be President by then. There is no immediat...

Pat Toomey is proposing a way to ensure that freezing the debt ceiling will not result in a default on government obligations. I like the w...

Steve commented on my BWD post that the reason that the federal deficit is growing is due to decreasing federal revenue. Because of Hauser...

In my previous post on this subject, I tried to give a sense of how vast and difficult solving our deficit problem has become. To recap, e...

"Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully," or so says Samuel...

Well who would have thought it? First the Greeks go in for some austerity, then the Irish , French and now the Brits? The country that w...

At the Scratching Post , KT has some nice graphics showing the mushrooming debt under Obama. Unfortunately, it also shows that the Bush ad...