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The National Debt Is Making Us Poorer
Reason.com via AOL· 17 hours agoNow, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) demonstrates that a difficult culprit will make you feel poorer over the next few decades: The nearly $35...
Rising US Debt Load Poses a Growing Risk for Treasury Market
Bloomberg via Yahoo Finance· 9 hours ago(Bloomberg) -- Bond industry leaders see a bleak US fiscal outlook that will keep debt growing and...
Fiscal nerds determine the fate of legislation in America
The Economist· 7 days agoBill Clinton’s political adviser once quipped that he would like to be reincarnated as the bond market so that he could “intimidate everybody”. It is now a group of fiscal nerds—called
Opinion | The GOP’s fight to hide the cost of its next tax cut has already begun
Washington Post· 6 days agoThe 2017 Trump tax cuts came with a massive price tag: The legislation added $1.9 trillion to...
Opinion: A value-added tax is one solution to the crippling debt problem
NBC Chicago· 15 hours agoInterest on the national debt in 2024 will cost a staggering $870 billion. This sum exceeds the amount we spend on defense, which is the largest of the discretionary items in the budget ...
The Congressional Budget Office's Alternative Scenarios Forecast a Dire Economic Picture
Reason.com via AOL· 7 days agoIllustration: Lex Villena; Dall-E Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projections provide valuable...
EDITORIAL: With apologies to all those drunken sailors
Las Vegas Review-Journal· 6 days agoWho says fiscal responsibility is dead in Washington? In the current White House, perhaps. The CBO...
Federal duplication and overlap: same story, bigger numbers
Federal News Network· 13 hours agoTom Temin And I think it’s fair to say that the immediate assumption that one has when this report...
Rising national debt to reduce Americans' income growth: report
FOX Business· 7 days agoThe fast-growing national debt is on pace to reduce the growth in American households' incomes in...
Biden's blunder: 'It's the economy, stupid' | PERRY O. HOOPER JR.
The Montgomery Advertiser via Yahoo Finance· 22 hours agoThis figure is expected to grow significantly in the coming years due to rising interest rates and increasing debt levels. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO< ...