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Showing posts with label US fiscal policy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label US fiscal policy. Show all posts
Monday, February 10, 2020

Trump outlines massive cuts in Medicaid and Medicare in 2021 budget plan — Kevin Reed

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A look at the plan to cut non-discretionary spending and increase the budgets of the Pentagon and Department of Homeland Security. WSWS Tr...
Monday, November 5, 2018

Stephanie Kelton — The Democrats’ Options for Repealing the Trump Tax Cut

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No, this won’t be on the table until 2021 at the earliest. But the party’s candidates need to offer some solutions. Bloomberg Opinion The ...
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Friday, July 13, 2018

Alan Longbon — Good News: U.S. Government Posts A $75 Billion Deficit For June 2018

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The US budget deficit is USD 75 billion in June 2018; this is a net add of income to the private sector and allows it to grow. The good n...
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Friday, November 24, 2017

Rohan Grey and Nathan Tankus — Corporate Taxation in a Modern Monetary Economy: Legal History, Theory, Prospects

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Abstract Corporate taxation is a perennially controversial topic in American politics. In fact, it may be the tax policy controversy that...
Monday, July 31, 2017

Zero Hedge — Treasury To Issue Half A Trillion Dollars In Debt In Q4

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This drawdown in cash, and jump in government outlays, was to be expected following the latest Monthly Statement from the Treasury which sh...
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Sunday, April 30, 2017

Pence — Trump's Tax Plan To Increase Deficit "In The Short Term"

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Hours after Trump provided the broad framework, if few details, to his tax plan, conceived almost certainly by Goldman Sachs economists Ale...
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Thursday, March 16, 2017

Justin Sink and Erik Wasson — Trump Plans Historic Cuts Across Government to Fund Defense

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[Office of Management and Budget Director Mick] Mulvaney on MSNBC said the litmus test his team used was, “Can we really continue to ask a c...
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Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Dirk Ehnts — US Congress has passed $1.8 trn spending measure…

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For all the talk about austerity and running out of munnie, the US Congress goes all in on fiscal expansion. It is quite clear that expa...
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Monday, November 30, 2015

Bloomberg — There's a Big Drop in U.S. Treasury Debt Supply Coming in 2016

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Deficit falling. Treasury issuing mostly bills owing to demand for short term. Bloomberg Business There's a Big Drop in U.S. Treasury ...
Friday, March 13, 2015

David Lawder — Obama budget would shrink deficits by $1.2 trillion over 10 years: CBO

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More or less guarantees the deficits over 10 years will balloon far beyond that unless the US subjected to buckling austerity. Not likely ...