If the recent past is any indication of how elected officials will deal with the country’s short- and long-term fiscal challenges, Americans – and especially younger ones – are in trouble. Washington will have to step up its game. And…
With the budget conference committee facing a mid-December deadline to reach a bipartisan deal, the work has shifted to private discussions among various groups of lawmakers.Expectations for the committee, which held its opening session Wednesday, have been low. But if…
Who says that Democrats and Republicans can't reach a grand bargain? Harry Reid and Paul Ryan seem to have it figured out. If Democrats and Republicans don’t demand compromises from each other, everyone can get along. It’s the perfect political grand…
The federal debt limit is actually a case of mistaken identity, according to Concord Coalition Executive Director Robert L. Bixby.“While you would think that a ‘debt limit’ would exert control over the nation’s fiscal policies, it does not,” he says…
