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Economists rebut, sort of, critique on high-debt, low-growth study
Harvard economists Ken Rogoff and Carmen Reinhart, authors of a widely-cited paper suggesting that high government debt levels lead to low growth -- have responded defensively to a new paper suggesting that their results were due to mathematical and...
Tags: Government Debt, Science and Technology, Productivity
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The Obama budget and the appearance of reform
— Well, at least we're starting to get the procedure right. Washington has rediscovered the beauty of the boring. It's called "regular order," using the normal, routine, constitutional process to arrive at, for example, a budget. Normal had...
Tags: Retirement, Barack Obama, White House, Media Industry, Public Finance
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Obama unveils $3.78-trillion budget proposal
WASHINGTON — President Obama laid out his vision Wednesday for $3.78 trillion in federal spending, unveiling a budget proposal for the next fiscal year that aims to reignite cooled deficit reduction talks while opening negotiations over the fate...
Tags: U.S. House Committee on the Budget, Barack Obama, White House, Public Finance, Alzheimer's Disease
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Obama says his budget has 'manageable' cuts to entitlement programs
WASHINGTON -- President Obama argued for “manageable” changes to Medicare and other social safety net programs as he released his budget proposal, a plan aimed at staking out the middle ground in the stalled deficit reduction talks. “...Tags: Elections, Barack Obama, White House, Public Finance, Economic Stimulus Plan
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Losers revenge: Presidents and Hall of Famers don't live longer
Losers, also-rans, the 99% and underachievers may have reason to cheer. Winning an Emmy, a presidential election or a spot in the baseball Hall of Fame does not mean you live longer and better, according to a new study. Researchers at Columbia...
Tags: White House, Awards and Prizes, Baseball, College Baseball, Health and Safety at School
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House GOP proposes austere, balanced budget
WASHINGTON – Reprising austerity themes that define the party, House Republicans unveiled a budget proposal Tuesday that they say would achieve the ambitious goal of balancing in 10 years, but it has no chance of acceptance by Democrats in what is...Tags: Nursing Homes, Elections, Senior Health, White House, Congressional Budget Office
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Jeb Bush, Paul Ryan set for ‘Fox News Sunday’
The TV Guy - Orlando SentinelFormer Gov. Jeb Bush is hinting he might run for president in 2016. The Florida Republican can expand on that idea when he's a guest this weekend on “Fox News Sunday.” He also can promote his book “Immigration Wars,” which he... -
Charm has its limits
WASHINGTOLN -- It's week two of the president's charm offensive, and already there is dissension in the ranks. Jay Carney, the occasionally charming spokesman for the newly charming president, began his daily media briefing Monday with a smile, a...
Tags: U.S. House Committee on the Budget, Elections, White House, Barack Obama, Bob Woodward
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Ryan in fantasyland
WASHINGTON -- If Rep. Paul Ryan wants people to take his budget manifestos seriously, he should be honest about his ambition: not so much to make the federal government fiscally sustainable as to make it smaller. You will recall that The Ryan Budget was...
Tags: Elections, U.S. House Committee on the Budget, Fox News Channel (tv network), Barack Obama, Fiscal Cliff
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Paul Ryan drinks deeply from pool of Social Security lies
I'd like to offer my thanks to House Budget Committee Chairman Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) for doing so much to validate my list of the five biggest lies about "entitlement" programs published on Sunday. Ryan's proposed federal budget, released Tuesday,...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Retirement, U.S. House Committee on the Budget, Medicare, Budgets and Budgeting
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Lawmakers: Obama wooing might break budget logjam
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican lawmakers said Sunday they welcome President Barack Obama's courtship and suggested the fresh engagement between the White House and Congress might help yield solutions to the stubborn budget battle that puts Americans'...
Tags: Barack Obama, Government, White House, Democratic Party, State of the Union Address
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McManus: Let's talk GOP and fantasy politics
Almost four years ago, long before the 2012 presidential campaign heated up, CNN took a poll to learn who Republicans might choose as their party's next nominee. There were two clear front-runners: former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and former Arkansas Gov....
Tags: Gun Control, Michele Bachmann, Marco Rubio, White House, Polls
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Apr 7, 2013
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