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• Focus On New Jobs, Not Reducing the Deficit - Rep. Keith Ellison, USA Today
• Paul Krugman Is Asking the Wrong Question - Jeffrey Dorfman
• Budget Wars: President Obama V. House V. Senate - Peter Ferrara, NCPA
• Air Travel and the Sequester: A Problem Of Priorities - Jeffrey Dorfman
• Reinhart/Rogoff Revives Debt Debate - Robert Samuelson, Washington Post
• "Chained" Thinking On Federal Deficit - Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times
• The Chained CPI: A Sucker's Bet For the GOP - Andrew Biggs
• Reinhart and Rogoff Were Wrong Even Without the 'Spreadsheet Error' - John Tamny
• The Incredible Shrinking Budget Deficit - Annie Lowrey, Economix
• Legacy of NYC's 1970s Fiscal Crisis Lives On - Kim Phillips-Fein, The Nation
• Reinhart/Rogoff's Math Error Misses the Point - Daniel Shuchman, Forbes
• Medicare Savings the Obama Budget Plan Overlooks - Alex Brill
• Were Reinhart & Rogoff Wrong After All? - Annie Lowrey, New York Times
• On the Budget, Obama's Opening Bid Was Reasonable - Ron Haskins
• The GOP Must Say No To Obama's Growth-Busting Budget - Larry Kudlow
• The Budget Process Is a Bipartisan Fraud - Jeffrey Dorfman
• It's Time To Get Radical About Cutting the Deficit - Gene Epstein, Barron's
• What Is Congress Doing About America Going Broke? - Nick Troiano, LAT
• No GOP Reset Needed: Instead, Act Like Republicans - John Tamny, RCM
• Ryan's Budget Is 'Surgery' Without the Anesthesia - Louis Woodhill, Forbes
• Budget Stalemate Shows Need For a Monetary Fix - Charles Kadlec, Forbes
• Paul Ryan's Spending Ax Isn't Sharp Enough - Paul Broun, New York Times
• Coming Budget Debate: Paul Ryan v. Patty Murray - Peter Ferrara, Forbes
• America Invents Another Phony Fiscal Crisis - Simon Johnson, Bloomberg
• The Budget Deficit Deniers Should Do the Math - Gene Epstein, Barron's
• Ryan Delivers Us From Deficit Hell - Daniel Henninger, Wall Street Journal
• Balancing the Budget Is a Very Foolish Goal - Rex Nutting, MarketWatch
• Why Government Spending Can't Be Cut - Reason Hit & Run
• Ryan Offers Realistic Solutions to Problems - Editorial, Wall Street Journal
• Ignore the Pyrotechnics In Budget Politics - Bruce Bartlett, Financial Times
• Rep. Ryan's Austerity Would Kill the Recovery - Editorial, New York Times
• There's Nothing 'Limited' About Ryan's Balanced Budget - John Tamny
• Paul Ryan Is Living Off In Fantasyland - Eugene Robinson, Washington Post
• GOP Plan To Balance Budget By 2023 - Rep. Paul Ryan, Wall Street Journal
• Krugman Is Wrong, Deficits Matter - Scarborough & Sachs, Washington Post
• 'We're Getting Away With It' Doesn't Excuse Debt - Dan Shuchman, Forbes
• Today's Fiscal Crisis A Shadow Of the One to Come - Tom Donlan, Barron's
• A Pop Quiz About Federal Spending That May Surprise You - Henry Aaron
• The Deficit Hawks 'Generational Theft' Line a Sham - Michael Hiltzik, LAT
• Washington's Sequester Hysteria Obscures A More Tragic Unseen - John Tamny
• America's Creditor? China Has Its Own Debt Bomb - Ruchir Sharma, WSJ
• The Federal Budget Is Going to Grow: Deal With It - Jonathan Cohn, TNR
• A Brief History Of the U.S. National Debt - Brad Schiller, Washington Times
• In 22 Years, The U.S. Could Be Worse Than Greece - Gene Epstein, Barron's
• A Sequester Solution Both Sides Will Like - Jeffrey Dorfman
• Global Debt Accumulation Reaches Record Levels - Fred Kingery
• The Neglected Cost of Government Spending - Jeffrey Dorfman
• Uncle Sam Gets An "F" In Money Mgmt. - David Walker, Washington Times
• Reduce Deficits sans Killing Recovery? - Robert Samuelson, Washington Post
• Deficits Are Costly, Even If You're Not Greece - Aspen Gorry & Matthew Jensen
• Deficit Hawks and Doves In Agreement - Michael Kinsley, Los Angeles Times
• With Regard To Debt Ceilings, the U.S. Shouldn't Emulate Europe - Anthony Randazzo
• How About Let's Not Repay the National Debt? - Matthew Yglesias, Slate
• You Can't Fix the Deficit with More Deficits - Paul Roderick Gregory, Forbes
• The Unavoidable Federal Debt Debate Impasse - Samuel Staley
• America's Fiscal Policy Is Not In Crisis Mode - Martin Wolf, Financial Times
• America's Deficits: More Than Fiscal - Lawrence Summers, Washington Post
• Absent Fiscal Restraint, History Will Be Unkind To Obama - Phillip Swagel
• Obama Lays Out the Case for Big Government - Diana Furchtgott-Roth
• The Case For Budget Deficit Optimism - Ezra Klein, Wonkblog
• Budget Deficit Problem Is Largely Solved - Paul Krugman, New York Times
• At This Point It's President Obama's Deficit - Glenn Reynolds, USA Today
• Going Big On Deficit Reduction Is Dead. Now What? - Ron Haskins
• Why Everything They Say About Deficits Is Wrong - John Tamny, Forbes
• James Grant Is Right: Lower the Debt Ceiling - Editorial, New York Sun
• If Congress Doesn't Raise the Debt Ceiling, Nothing Disastrous Will Happen - Dean Kalahar
• The Fiscal Conversation Must Change For America To Change - Anthony Randazzo
• Will Robots Fix Entitlements' Crisis? - Holman Jenkins, Wall Street Journal
• Washington Is Fixing the Budget Crisis - Roger Altman, Financial Times
• A Budget 'Cure' Worse Than the Disease - Charles Gasparino, New York Post
• The Real Cliff: Our Staggering Debt - Christopher DeMuth, Weekly Standard
• Closing Loopholes Won't Fix Deficit - Leonard Burman & Joel Slemrod, NYT
• Deficit: Not As Bad As They Want You To Think - Evan Soltas, Bloomberg
• Obama's Blessing: $20T Deficit for the 2016 Victor - Paul Gregory, Forbes
• The Fed Masks Obama's Spending Errors - Richard Rahn, Washington Times
• A Real Debt to GDP Goal: 60 Percent By 2030 - Michael Peterson, Politico
• Dr. Evil, and Unsustainable $1T Deficits - Paul Krugman, New York Times
• Don't Cave Republicans, This Time Deficits Matter - Jerry Bowyer, Forbes
• Obama Requests a No-Debt Limit Card - Jonathon Trugman, New York Post
• Will Aging Childless Voters Enslave My Future Grandchildren? - Bill Frezza
• Obama's Historic Budget Opportunity - Robert Zoellick, Wall Street Journal
• Apples v. Oranges, Policy Purity, and Looming Economic Doom - Jeffrey Dorfman
• Bad Boy Cities and States Test Fiscal Limits - Steven Malanga
• Cut Deficits by Cutting Spending - Alberto Alesina, Vox
• "Debtpocalypse": The Hollowing Out Of America - Steve Fraser, The Nation
• Forget the Fiscal Cliff; Focus On the Debt Ceiling - Isabel Sawhill
• The Bernanke Fed's Role In Debt Debate - Charles Lane, Washington Post
• Time to Call Obama's Budget Bluff - Keith Hennessey, Wall Street Journal
• Let's Put Social Security On the Table - Robert Samuelson
• A Long-Term Deficit Deal Is Impossible, and Hurtful - Matt Yglesias, Slate
• Kick the Cliff Down the Road, Then Start Negotiating - Scott Winship
• Why $16T Only Hints at Actual U.S. Debt - Chris Cox & Bill Bill Archer, WSJ
• The Fiscal Cliff? Let's Rush Off Of It - Jeffrey Dorfman
• France Would Be Booming If Big Deficits Were Stimulus - Editorial, WSJ
• Immigration Reform Is a Painless Way to Reduce Deficit - Arlene Holen
• A Cure For Blue State Fiscal Blues - Steven Malanga
• Truth About Federal Pay - Andrew Biggs & Jason Richwine, Washington Post
• Letter to Geithner: How to Dodge Debt Crisis - Allan Sloan, Washington Post
• My Name's Uncle Sam, And I'm a Debt-A-Holic - Caroline Baum, Bloomberg
• More In the U.S. Want "Balanced" Deficit Approach - Jeffrey Jones, Gallup
• The Real Fiscal Choices That the U.S. Faces - Editorial, Wall Street Journal
• Our Scary Fiscal Future? That Can Wait - Robert Samuelson
• Social Security "Never Added a Dime to the Deficit" Really? - Andrew Biggs
• Will Texas Squander Its Prosperity? - Steven Malanga
• Are Voters Ready to Make the Tough Fiscal Choices? - Isabel Sawhill
• Pension Woe Mounts As States Forsake Reform - Steven Malanga
• Deficit Stealth Tax Costs Savers Dearly - Investor's Business Daily
• Happy Deficit Day, America! - James R. Harrigan & Antony Davies
• Can a VP Ryan Boost the Odds of a Deficit Compromise? - Ron Haskins
• The U.S. Needs a Vigorous Medicare Debate - Diana Furchtgott-Roth
• Muni Investors Vs. California Public Workers - Steven Malanga
• Is the Budget Coast Clear for State and Local Governments? - Tracy Gordon
• California Is Ground Zero for Muni Bankruptcies - Harris Kenny & Leonard Gilroy
• Who Caused the $12 Trillion Budget Blunder? - Robert Samuelson
• The Fiscal Cliff? Let's Pass Right Over It - William Gale
• The Government Worker Retirement Spree - Steven Malanga
• Why U.S. Economic Policy Is Paralyzed - Robert Samuelson
• On December 31st the Fiscal Clock Will Reset to Zero - Isabel Sawhill
• Austerity? Now Krugman et al Tell Us - Steven Malanga
• The Deficit: GOP Must Give In On Taxes, Dems On Spending - Ron Haskins
• How Much Do You Owe Government Workers? - Steven Malanga
• Innoculate the Budget Deficit From Healthcare Reform - William Gale
• The Fiscal Game In Washington Is At Odds With Reality - Henry Aaron
• The Mysterious White House/CBO Deficit Disparity - Diana Furchtgott-Roth
• Some State Budgets Will Never Be the Same - Steven Malanga
• How About a Presidential Debate On Hard Fiscal Issues? - Bill Frenzel
• Gen O Discovers Washington's Debt Bomb - Diana Furchtgott-Roth
• Prosperity That Feels Like Austerity - Steven Malanga
• Medicare Is a Future Budget Buster - Diana Furchtgott-Roth
• Paul Ryan: The Most Daring Budget Hawk of His Generation - Ron Haskins
• Rep. Ryan's Common-Sense Budget - Diana Furchtgott-Roth
• Are Pensions Busting Local Government Budgets? - Tracy Gordon
• Spending and Deficits Force a Rethink of Hauser's Law - John Tamny
• The State and Local Pension Crisis - Diana Furchtgott-Roth
• Rhode Island: Little State In a Big Mess - Steven Malanga
• The 2013 Budget: A Process Run Amok - Bill Frenzel
• Why Federal Spending Is Difficult to Control - Robert Samuelson
• A Good, But Not Great, Highway Bill - Diana Furchtgott-Roth
• 3 Lies They Tell Us About Budget Deficits - John Tamny
• A Country In Denial About Its Fiscal Future - Robert Samuelson
• Europe's Predicament Is Similar to Ours - Robert Samuelson
• Bankruptcy Is An Ugly Option for Cities - Steven Malanga
• Good Economic Policymaking Takes Back Seat to Elections - Phillip Swagel
• Why a Balanced Budget Amendment Is Doomed To Fail - For Now - David Primo
• A Super Tax Hike Spells Disaster - Larry Kudlow
• Deficit Deal Could Diminish Drug Access - Grace-Marie Turner
• Let's Banish the Budget Fictions Of Left and Right - Robert Samuelson
• Illinois' Budget: From Worst to 'Worster' - Steven Malanga
• The Supercommittee Isn't Making Super Cuts - Investor's Business Daily
• Investing In America's Families, Communities, and Economy - Arthur Blank
• Super Committee Vs. Fiscal Commission: It's Different This Time - Alex Brill
• The Soprano State Gets Downgraded - Steven Malanga
• We Can't Even Cut Programs That Don't Work - Steven Malanga
• A Small Step Toward Fiscal Solvency - Diana Furchtgott-Roth
• The Truth About the Debt-Ceiling Fight - Wendy Milling
• A Pro-Growth Plan From the Gang of Six - Larry Kudlow
• Book Review: America's Ticking Bankruptcy Bomb by Peter Ferrara - John Tamny
• The Astronomical Cost of Not Taxing Everything - Bill Frezza
• The Virtues Of a Balanced Budget Amendment - Diana Furchtgott-Roth
• The Tea Party Is 'Ceiling' the Budget Deal - Larry Kudlow
• Beware Of Means Tests As a Way to Reduce the Budget Deficit - Andrew Biggs
• Get Over It, We've Already Defaulted - John Tamny
• Government Spending, and the 18% of GDP Myth - Dean Kalahar
• The Universal Suffrage/Entitlement Paradox - Bill Frezza
• The Debt Limit Smackdown: Chicken Versus Rope-a-Dope - Bill Frezza
• Default 'Catastrophe' Explains Why Debt Ceiling Shouldn't Be Increased - John Tamny
• A Debt Ceiling = Balanced Budget - Nedland Williams
• True National Debt Nowhere Near $14.3 Trillion - Stephen Meister
• Let's Put to Bed the 'America Is Bankrupt' Myth - John Tamny
• Rein In Washington, Not the Rich, For a Better Economy - Erin Humiston