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The war and its financial consequences. Supreme Court rules states can't ban conversion therapy. And cloning...

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Our national debt in light years. Google's woes. And Bible sales are up 22%.

October 2021

October 11, 2021

A Trillion

A billlion is a thousand million. But a trillion is a million million.

April 2021

April 06, 2021

Unlimited Spending

Trillions for COVID stimulus, more trillions for infrastructure, more trillions for health care and education....

February 2021

February 03, 2021

Why We (Supposedly) Don’t Need to Worry about the National Debt

Our federal government's debt is now some $21 trillion, as much as the entire national...

February 19, 2019

“Modern Monetary Theory”: Deficits Don’t Matter

Remember the Republican state of outrage and trepidation when the Obama administration racked up a...

April 2018

April 11, 2018

In 10 Years, the National Debt Will Be 96% of the Gross Domestic Product

The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has run the numbers, finding, as expected, that the...

April 09, 2018

China’s Weapons in the Trade War

President Trump recently slapped $50 billion worth of tariffs on Chinese goods. Whereupon China slapped...

April 03, 2017

National debt will double in 30 years

The Congressional Budget Office released figures that project the national debt to double by 2047....

May 2016

May 13, 2016

Trump thinks we can always just print more money

Donald Trump thinks we don't have to worry about defaulting on the national debt because...

April 2016

April 18, 2016

Saudi Arabia threatens U.S. economy over 9/11 charges

There is reportedly evidence--censored pages of the official 9/11 report--that some of the 9/11 terrorists...

November 2015

November 19, 2015

The Democrats’ war on youth

Democrats accuse Republicans of waging a war on women. Republicans could come back with the...

July 2015

July 07, 2015

How the Greek economy is like ours

Greece has racked up a huge national debt and has such low economic growth that...

March 2013

March 04, 2013

When the worst case is that nothing bad happens

Charles Krauthammer is another candidate for best sequester commentary: “The worst-case scenario for us,” a...

February 2013

February 12, 2013

Debt as a new form of currency

I knew it would only be a matter of time before the newly-ascendant left applied...

February 01, 2013

$1.2 trillion in automatic cuts might kick in

Remember the "sequester," the automatic budget cuts that were supposed to go into effect on...

January 2013

January 24, 2013

Republicans go along with raising debt limit

House Republicans decided to adopt a "no drama" policy in regards to raising the debt...

January 09, 2012

Government debt now greater than the whole economy

Factoid buried in a Washington Post graph caption: The federal debt of the United States...

August 2011

August 22, 2011

A plague on both your houses

Allan Sloan, an editor of Fortune, blames BOTH tea party conservatives AND the Obama administration...

August 15, 2011

A different take on our economic woes

The wild fluctuations of the stock market last week seem to be a reaction to...

August 12, 2011

The Super Committee

Congressional leaders have appointed the "Super Committee" tasked by the debt reduction deal to recommend...

August 08, 2011

America’s credit score

Standard & Poor's downrated US bonds from AAA to AA+, the first time we have...

August 05, 2011

Another economic collapse?

The stock market has nosedived 500 points and the economic indicators appear to be disastrous....

August 03, 2011

Satan sandwich with a side of Satan fries

The debt compromise had two groups of people who are normally polar opposites agreeing with...

August 01, 2011

Deal on the debt

Democratic and Republican leaders came to an agreement on raising the debt limit, looking to...

August 01, 2011

The trillion dollar coin

The weirdest idea for solving the debt crisis comes from Ezra Klein of the Washington...

July 2011

July 28, 2011

The two debt-reduction plans

So House Majority Leader John Boehner has a debt reduction plan on the table. It...

July 14, 2011

The McConnell plan

It's hard to decipher what Mitch McConnell's plan to deal with the debt ceiling even...

July 12, 2011

National debt impasse

So President Obama offered $4 trillion in budgetary cuts if the Republicans would accept a...

July 04, 2011

The National Debt and the Constitution

As we wrestle with the national debt and as Congress debates over whether to raise...