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A New TARP Program for Community Banks
The Administration has just announced a new small business lending initiative under the Treasury’s TARP. According to a White House release, the new...
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President Signs $121 Billion Farm Bill
Yesterday, President Obama signed the Agriculture Appropriations bill into law. The $121 billion measure includes $58 billion for food stamps -- a 7%...
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Healthcare Savings Likely to be Eclipsed by Stimulus Extensions
Forbes had a piece Monday by Alex Brill and Amy Roden of the American Enterprise Institute about the potential for stimulus programs to expand the...
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How the CBO Estimates Cost
UPDATE: Pete Davis and Donald Marron commented on this story and defend the CBO as the best way to estimate cost. Douglas Holtz-Eakin explains that...
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A Really Big Deficit
The message from the end of the year deficit number is clear: we must start planning how to get the deficit under control. A $1.4 TRILLION deficit is...
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Weekend Editorial Roundup
Here are the highlights from this weekend’s editorials on fiscal and budget policy: In an editorial titled, “The Greatest Show on Earth,” The Wall...
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Cost of the Finance Committee Health Care Bill
Today the Congressional Budget released their analysis of the amended version of the America’s Healthy Future Act of 2009, the health care reform...
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Memo for FY2011 Budget Preparation: Positive Effects from Preannouncing Deficit Reduction
Faced with massive debt burdens coming out of the economic and financial crisis – even before the retirement and health care tsunami hits – experts...
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TARP -- One Year Later
Saturday marked the one-year anniversary of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), established as part of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act...
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Weekend Editorial Roundup
This weekend, there have been a number of editorials about fiscal and budget policy. Among them: USA Today argued for "patching" the estate tax next...
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Social Security Beneficiaries Rise by 19%
According to Bloomberg News, the number of Social Security beneficiaries increased by 19 percent, or 2.6 million retired workers, in FY 2009. This...