Trump is steamrolling congressional Republicans. What’s in it for them? | David Kirp
By The Guardian
The budget bill was a reminder: the president and…
➔ iFreedom Caucus Chief Outlines Strategy to Cut Spending, the Deficit
By The Daily Signal
A few hours before a House vote on whether to…
➔ iRand Paul Is Right About the Debt
By The Daily Signal
“Let’s talk about the deficit.”…
➔ iU.S. Trade Deficit Plunges as Tariffs Take Effect
By The American Conservative
State of the Union: It was the largest such…
➔ iHouse Republicans Dispute CBO’s Deficit Scoring of ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’
By The Daily Signal
The Congressional Budget Office, Congress’…
➔ iThe good news? Household living standards are on the rise. The bad news? Just about everything else…
By The Guardian
Australia’s weak economic growth is not…
➔ iTrump’s Tax Bill Helps the Rich, Hurts the Poor, and Adds Trillions to the Deficit
By The Nation
Katrina vanden Heuvel The “big, beautiful…
➔ iLetters to the Editor: DOGE's purported savings have nothing on what more tax cuts could add to the…
By Los Angeles Times
'If you want a government that works efficiently,…
➔ iTrump’s tax bill helps the rich, hurts the poor and adds trillions to the deficit | Katrina…
By The Guardian
The ‘big, beautiful bill’ has reaffirmed that…
➔ iMiranda Devine: Jill Biden’s ‘work husband’ Anthony Bernal may have played a key role in…
By New York Post
There are few doubts in the White House about…
➔ iSo long, Elon: the cuts didn’t go to plan, but you completely shredded your reputation | Marina…
By The Guardian
Judging by Musk’s approval ratings, Tesla…
➔ iLetters to the Editor: Blame tax cuts, not entitlements, for GOP megabill's expansion of the deficit
By Los Angeles Times
Jonah Goldberg is the latest commentator to blame…
➔ iThe Guardian view on Trump’s 'big, beautiful bill': reject the con of a class-war manifesto |…
By The Guardian
The Republican budget proposal is a gift to…
➔ iContributor: The U.S. credit downgrade is not the problem. Our reckless spending is
By Los Angeles Times
Habitual deficit financing — the very disease…
➔ i‘Pro-worker priorities’? Trump’s budget offers the exact opposite | Steven Greenhouse
By The Guardian
The ‘big, beautiful’ measure going through…
➔ iThe Guardian view on the impact of Trump’s film tariffs: a disaster movie waiting to happen |…
By The Guardian
The US president’s proposed levies will badly…
➔ iThe Trump administration’s tax math doesn’t add up
By The Washington Post
Budget gimmicks for Congress mean higher deficits…
➔ iWhy Donald Trump’s plan to weaken the dollar is flawed | Kenneth Rogoff
By The Guardian
There are many reasons why the US runs persistent…
➔ iTrump’s tariffs get one thing right: capitalism is changing | Avram C Alpert
By The Guardian
The president’s protectivist trade vision is…
➔ iTrump’s ‘big, beautiful’ budget plan delivers for America
By New York Post
President Donald Trump on Friday released his…
➔ iThe UK and EU cracked down on food dyes long ago – Maga is way behind the curve | Devi Sridhar
By The Guardian
For years, artificial dyes have been linked to…
➔ iDespite faux fanfare and outrage, DOGE hasn’t even scratched the federal budget monster
By New York Post
Many of my fellow fiscal conservatives cheered…
➔ iHow cryptocurrencies are solving America’s stocks and bonds problem
By New York Post
Just as foreign leaders are saying they’ll buy…
➔ iTariffs, culture and the trouble with trading blows
By Yedioth News
Opinion: Trump’s aggressive import tariffs…
➔ iTrump’s Trade Policies Keep Undercutting His Own Goals
By Foreign Policy
Trump’s tariffs are set to make reshoring…
➔ iTrump is killing one of our strongest exports
By The Washington Post
The president wants to balance U.S. trade…
➔ iThe U.S. is in no shape to weather a recession
By The Washington Post
The bill for reckless deficits might soon come…
➔ iContributor: Republicans can't shrink government by ballooning the deficit
By Los Angeles Times
In addition to tax cuts and spending cuts, the…
➔ iBritain needn’t be cowed by wrecking-ball Trump, it should seize opportunities in Europe, Canada…
By The Guardian
Keir Starmer can help redefine global trade while…
➔ iLabor’s budget tax cuts make good economic sense – and have backed Dutton and Taylor into a…
By The Guardian
The tax cuts announced in Jim Chalmers’ fourth…
➔ iWhat to make of Gen Z (no, the other one)
By The Washington Post
Plus: Deportations and the rule of law. Deficit…
➔ iCulture warriors see not sick Britain, but a plague of 'overdiagnosis'. How convenient | Rhiannon…
By The Guardian
Instead of dismissing huge swaths of the…
➔ iExpect a lot of talk about Australia’s deficit, but remember the golden rule: budgets are always…
By The Guardian
The world trade system, and our ability to trust…
➔ iI believe Labour cares about those in need, but it must show that. It can’t go on like this |…
By The Guardian
Every Labour government improves the lives of…
➔ iIt’s ‘Maganomics’: Trump’s brash economic strategy is likely to end in crash or crisis |…
By The Guardian
Large tax cuts for the rich, import tariffs, and…
➔ iPentagon Keeps Pouring Cash Into Golf Courses — Even As Trump Slashes Government Spending
By The Intercept
The Pentagon owns 145 golf courses. As Trump cuts…
➔ iTrump Administration Could Test Impoundment Authority
By The Daily Signal
The Trump administration may soon bring the word…
➔ iDemocrats Had Their Own Version of DOGE Under Clinton and Gore. Why Are They Terrified Now?
By The Daily Signal
While Democrats in Congress howl over President…
➔ iDeficit-funded stimulus checks? No thanks.
By The Washington Post
Donald Trump should abandon the idea of paying…
➔ iWhy is Spain’s economy booming? Thanks to migration – which proves xenophobia doesn’t pay |…
By The Guardian
With Spanish GDP growth leading Europe last year,…
➔ iWhy Trump can’t close the trade deficit
By The Washington Post
Tariffs won’t do the trick. He would have to…
➔ iEven if France’s budget doesn’t tackle the public deficit, let’s give thanks it exists |…
By The Guardian
Politics have sunk so low since Emmanuel…
➔ iWith Trump imposing tariffs, suddenly the media is concerned about inflation
By American Thinker
Where were they when Joe Biden ramped up…
➔ iDemocrats weep crocodile tears about tariffs, but ignore how taxes, regulations, and government…
By American Thinker
Democrats have been screaming about President…
➔ iTrump’s federal spending power grab is far from over
By The Washington Post
The administration makes clear that it wants the…
➔ iWhat Trump’s economic agenda means for the US and its allies
By Yedioth News
Opinion: Trump’s second term promises to revive…
➔ iThe spiralling cost of borrowing spells trouble for Rachel Reeves – but she must hold her nerve |…
By The Guardian
There is no need to panic: the government’s…
➔ iOpinion: The case for killing the tax credit for electric vehicles
By Los Angeles Times
It's ineffective at shaping behavior, and it…
➔ iInslee's Last Tax Insult to Washington
By The Wall Street Journal
The departing Governor now wants a wealth tax as…
➔ iTrump 2.0’s impact on social mobility: the good, the bad, and the uncertain
By American Thinker
While it is in vogue to discuss reckless…
➔ iI Have a Suggestion for What Musk and Ramaswamy Could Actually Do to Cut Government Spending
By Slate
If they’re serious.
➔ iEconomic Growth Won't Reduce the Deficit Enough
By The Wall Street Journal
Trump and Scott Bessent should embrace PAYGO+ and…
➔ iWhat do the latest GDP figures tell us? That the RBA is still getting it very wrong | Greg Jericho
By The Guardian
It’s time the reserve started undoing the…
➔ iTrump understands that curbing monstrous government spending is what will halt inflation
By American Thinker
We seem to have a massive leak in the bucket and…
➔ i‘Accountability Is Coming’: Iowa’s Ernst Sends Musk’s DOGE $2T Worth of Ways to Gut…
By The Daily Signal
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Sen. Joni Ernst…
➔ iThe UN has failed us on Gaza. We need to decolonize and radically reform it | Omar Barghouti
By The Guardian
By decolonizing, I mean a transformative process…
➔ iWes Streeting, you must have a better plan for ailing hospitals than public humiliation | Rachel…
By The Guardian
The plan to introduce league tables is a…
➔ iHow to Grow Out of America's Debt Woes
By The Wall Street Journal
Infrastructure investment, particularly related…
➔ iRussia Can’t Keep Spending Like This for Long
By Foreign Policy
Moscow is depleting its rainy-day savings to plug…
➔ iAll that Biden-Harris spending on student loan forgiveness and illegals brings us a near-record…
By American Thinker
Illegals and student loan debt forgiveness will…
➔ iWashington Racks Up Another $1.8 Trillion Budget Deficit
By The Wall Street Journal
Government spending rises 11%, more than…
➔ iTrump’s latest tax pandering reveals a dismal debate on the debt
By The Washington Post
Neither Trump nor Harris seem willing to take on…
➔ iHow Fox News sane-washes Trump
By The Washington Post
Plus: Taylor Swift’s clear message. The…
➔ iHow would Trump and Harris affect U.S. debt? The difference is huge.
By The Washington Post
Trump would add $4.5 trillion to the deficit with…
➔ iBankrupt and ravaged by student mental illness, Britain’s universities are badly in need of…
By The Guardian
Tough questions need to be asked of these…
➔ iHere Comes the $2 Trillion Deficit
By The Wall Street Journal
That’s now likely for fiscal 2024, despite a…
➔ iJob Growth Slows, Stocks Slump
By The Wall Street Journal
August job growth was dominated again by…
➔ iNow the Australian economy is on its knees, will the RBA finally start cutting interest rates? |…
By The Guardian
So far we have not gone into recession – but…
➔ iIt's Time to Short AMLO's Mexico
By The Wall Street Journal
The deficit has swelled, the peso is weaker, and…
➔ iKamala Harris’ $1.7T spending plan exposes her pixie-dust fiscal policy
By New York Post
Someone must have mentioned “return on…
➔ iHow the Biden-Harris Economy Left Most Americans Behind
By The Wall Street Journal
A government spending boom fueled inflation that…
➔ iWhistling Past a $1.9 Trillion Federal Deficit
By The Wall Street Journal
If Trump won’t press Harris on too much…
➔ i‘Slightly Less Bad Version of Democrats’: Chip Roy Rips House Republicans for Enabling Big…
By The Daily Signal
ATLANTA—For too long, Republicans have caused…
➔ iWhat RFK Jr. Says About Government Spending and Debt
By The Daily Signal
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. won applause at the…
➔ iLetters to the Editor: The Republican obsession with budget deficits
By Los Angeles Times
Readers point out what they deem faulty logic in…
➔ iThe left’s $7 trillion lie: Biden far outpaces Trump in racking up the national debt
By New York Post
We saw a classic case of projection in…
➔ iOpinion: A value-added tax is one solution to the crippling debt problem
By CNBC
There is only one way to raise the amounts needed…
➔ iLetters to the Editor: Budget deficits are a bad excuse for California to kill single-payer…
By Los Angeles Times
Our healthcare system is extremely expensive…
➔ iOpinion: California's budget deficit will force difficult cuts. This one should be the easiest
By Los Angeles Times
While Gov. Gavin Newsom has closed corrections…
➔ iSocial media lies can unleash a dangerous contempt for others. We can stop it | Max Jeganathan
By The Guardian
In our atomised society, we don’t just reject…
➔ iThe U.S. Munitions Deficit Is a Political Problem
By Foreign Policy
Just three U.S. states receive one-third of all…
➔ iPresidents' Words of Wisdom
"Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost."
- John Quincy Adams
"I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there’s purpose and worth to each and every life."
- Ronald Reagan