by | Nov 21, 2011 | Blog, The Sequester
Originally posted a Capital Gains and Games. Two things if you're at all surprised that the anything-but-super committee is going to announce today that it has been unable to agree on a deficit reduction plan and so is going out of business. First, you weren't reading...
by | Nov 8, 2011 | Blog, The Sequester
Originally published at Capital Gains and Games. I predicted two things in the Sept. 6 Fiscal Fitness — the first published after the Budget Control Act was signed into law this past Aug. 2 — that are coming true faster than I, even on my most cynical days, would have...
by | Oct 11, 2011 | Blog, The Sequester
Originally published at Capital Gains and Games This is not a defense of the Congressional budget process. How could it be? With annual budget resolutions and appropriations now among the hardest things on the planet to pass, with deficit reduction effort after...
by Bill Scher | Jun 21, 2010 | Blog, The Sequester
In today's W. Post column from Robert Samuelson, at one point he writes, "This is intellectually shallow." If he was referring to his own work, he'd be right. But he was trying to attack the President as dishonest about his energy policy, claiming that Obama is...