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It has become an article of faith among Republicans that President Obama's polices caused the deficit to soar. As a result, they...

Federal earmarks represent less than half  of 1% of the federal budget. Compared to  the trillion dollar (and counting) wars in Iraq and A...

All indications are that the Obama administration will cave into Republican demands to extend the Bush era tax cuts for the rich, people mak...

House minority leader, Representative John Boehner, who fought against extending unemployment benefits to America’s unemployed workers want...

In the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's latest man bites dog story Katelyn Ferral writes: More than 65% of Midwest chief financial officers...

If you lost your job last year, you're not alone. There are now 15.3 million Americans who are officially unemployed, up from 7.5 millio...

Paul Krugman, a Nobel Prize winning economist not noted for hyperbole, writes: A not-so-funny thing happened on the way to economic recovery...

Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker's decision to reject federal economic stimulus dollars reflects a zealous commitment to the very...

Senator John McCain claims he's an agent of change and a maverick. But McCain hasn't changed his faith in trickle down economics. In...

First District Congressman Paul Ryan is generating a lot of publicity for proposing "A Road Map for America's Future." It...

Economic Policy Institute economist, Jared Bernstein, has a very good blog, Stimulus 101 , that explains why an economic stimulus is needed ...

Yesterday I wrote that President Bush proposes the same medicine, upper income tax cuts, for any economic illness. When we had a projected $...

The New York Times wrote today that: Mr. Bush’s sudden passion for fiscal discipline is hypocritical... This White House is guilty of runawa...

A Milwaukee Journal editorial recently opined that "A Republican Congress abandoned its principles and left the country ill-prepared t...

Alan Greenspan is revising history and the role he played in supporting the Bush administration's irresponsible fiscal policies. In his ...