Tag Archives: congressional budget office
How Demographics are Driving America’s Long-Term Fiscal Illness
If it’s not a bizarre new geopolitical crisis, it’s a terrifying headline about the safety of our food supply. This, no doubt, is an age of constant, low-grade dread. Every time you open your phone, there’s a fresh, steaming pile of bad news waiting to greet you.
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Whip Inflation Never
The storyline all year from the Federal Reserve and the Treasury was that consumer price inflation was coming down. That it would soon be within the Fed’s arbitrary 2 percent target. That the runaway inflation over the last few years was a mere pothole in the road to greater prosperity. Continue reading
Double Nickels on the Dime
Lost in the election year noise and the zealous pursuit of World War III is one overarching fact. The USA is rapidly going broke. And no one can stop it. Continue reading
The War and Peace of Secular Market Cycles
Projections from the Congressional Budget Office show Washington racking up an additional $20.2 trillion in debt over the next decade. That would put the national debt somewhere around $54 trillion. Continue reading
