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IndustryWeek
December 16, 2010 |
The Competitive Edge: The Federal Deficit Comes Into Focus Slashing the federal deficit promises significant benefits for manufacturers.   |
BusinessWeek
April 26, 2004
Gail Edmondson |
Can You Say "Supply Side" In Italian? Berlusconi's plan to cut income taxes could wind up causing a deficit nightmare |
BusinessWeek
February 14, 2005 |
Wanted: An Honest Budget Bad news outweighs good as President Bush prepares to announce the next federal budget. |
BusinessWeek
June 3, 2010
Caroline Winter |
Making the Well-Off Pony Up Governments around the world want to levy new taxes on their affluent citizens. |
BusinessWeek
June 9, 2011
Jennifer Ryan |
As Cameron Wields the Ax, Britain Cringes The Prime Minister's $130 billion spending-cut plan is in full swing, and Britons are uneasy |
BusinessWeek
January 14, 2010
Mark Scott |
Europe's Debt Dilemma European governments are raising taxes and cutting spending to rein in debt, but that could stifle the recovery. |
BusinessWeek
March 4, 2010
Mike Dorning |
Slashing the Deficit without Massive Tax Hikes President Obama has asked a high-level commission to come up with ways to shrink the shortfall drastically by 2015. Doing so won't be painless...but it's possible |
BusinessWeek
April 14, 2011
David J. Lynch |
To Grow, a Country Must First Shrink? The idea of cutting government spending to spark a recovery lies at the heart of Paul Ryan's budget proposal. Here's how the evidence stacks up in other countries |
The Motley Fool
April 14, 2011
Morgan Housel |
What You Need to Know About the President's Plan to Save $4 Trillion President Barack Obama laid out a plan to slash $4 trillion from the deficit between now and 2023. Here's roughly how it'll get done. |
The Motley Fool
November 12, 2010
Morgan Housel |
How the Government Will Save $4 Trillion in 10 Years A rundown of the President's deficit-reduction commission proposal. |
BusinessWeek
June 24, 2010 |
Britain's Scary Budget Chancellor of the Exchequer Osborne announced his budget and it's not pretty |
Finance & Development
September 2010
Mark Horton |
How Grim a Fiscal Future? For most advanced economies, both the near term and the longer term are tight, but there are ways to ease budget pressures |
BusinessWeek
July 15, 2010 |
Gloomy Outlook Americans see little improvement in the economy and are conflicted about how to balance concerns over joblessness and the federal budget deficit, the latest Bloomberg National Poll shows. |
BusinessWeek
August 11, 2003
James Mehring |
Italy: One-Time Fixes Won't Do the Trick With Italy's rapidly aging population, pension reforms are needed. Otherwise, reducing budget deficits will become increasingly more difficult. |
BusinessWeek
February 10, 2010
Peter Coy |
Greece: How the Bond Vigilantes Left It in Ruins Now, Europe is under pressure to rescue the Greeks while keeping other EU members in line. |
Finance & Development
June 2010
Clements et al. |
Oil Subsidies: Costly and Rising Reducing subsidies worldwide can bring substantial environmental benefits and create much-needed fiscal space |
The Motley Fool
May 5, 2010
Alyce Lomax |
Weekly Walk of Shame: Greek Tragedy The situation in Greece holds foreboding for us all. |
BusinessWeek
May 19, 2011
Tom Keene |
Tom Keene Talks to Goldman's Andrew Tilton The senior U.S. economist for Goldman Sachs talks about the outlook for the rest of 2011. |
The Motley Fool
September 28, 2011
Sean Williams |
5 Startling Figures That Show Spain May Follow in Greece's Footsteps Will Spain default? These figures seem to indicate so. |
BusinessWeek
May 20, 2010
Gonzalo Vina |
George Osborne Is Spooking the Markets Britain's New Chancellor of the Exchequer's alarmist warnings about the coming fiscal pain has investors worried about his skills. |
The Motley Fool
March 19, 2010
Nate Weisshaar |
Will Your Portfolio Catch the Greek Contagion? This isn't to say that the U.S. is going to be the next Greece, but in order to address our own fiscal shortcomings, Americans will face decisions not unlike Greece's. |
The Motley Fool
March 25, 2010
Nate Weisshaar |
Greece and the Euro: Down but Not Out It's still better than Spain. |
The Motley Fool
October 4, 2010
Jordan DiPietro |
No Luck for the Irish Irish banks are dragging down the market. |
BusinessWeek
July 15, 2010
Ryan Donmoyer |
Brinkmanship Over the Bush Tax Cuts High-income Americans could be the beneficiaries of a looming fight over whether to extend or let expire the Bush-era tax cuts. |
BusinessWeek
November 14, 2005 |
Progress On A Merkel Government Despite political chaos in Berlin, the betting among pundits is that Christian Democrat Angela Merkel will still cobble together a coalition German government with herself as Chancellor. |
The Motley Fool
May 6, 2010
Tim Hanson |
Why the U.S. Is Worse Off Than Greece There's bad, and there's really bad. So many well-intentioned government budget plans are doomed by optimistic, unrealistic assumptions. |
The Motley Fool
July 12, 2011
Morgan Housel |
Balance the Budget Deficit in 3 Easy Steps Willie Sutton robbed banks "because that's where the money is." Those wrestling over how to attack the deficit would be wise to think the same way. |
BusinessWeek
December 10, 2009
Peter Coy |
Greece Rattles the Euro Zone Athens' budget deficits are damaging its credit rating and will test the solidity of the EU's monetary union. |
Finance & Development
September 2011
Laurence Ball et al. |
Painful Medicine Although advanced economies need medium-run fiscal consolidation, slamming on the brakes too quickly will hurt incomes and job prospects. |
BusinessWeek
February 24, 2011
Charlie Rose |
Charlie Rose Talks to Nassim Taleb The Black Swan's author saw that spiraling risk in financial markets could spark a global crisis. Now he's warning of the risk in delaying deficit cuts |
On Wall Street
February 1, 2011
Milton Ezrati |
Europe's Debt Crisis Continues, Despite Ireland's Resolved Debt No one will find a way to rest easy about european finances for a long time to come. |
The Motley Fool
August 5, 2011
Morgan Housel |
What the Debt Deal Might Do to the Economy Probably nothing good. |
The Motley Fool
May 20, 2010
Louis R. Woodhill |
Don't Follow Greece off the Austerity Cliff Europe, led by Greece and Portugal, seems to want to take a ride on the austerity death spiral. Let's not join them. Let's give the growth spiral a try instead. |
BusinessWeek
February 17, 2010
Peter Coy |
Germany's Merkel: She's Got the Whole Euro in Her Hands Angela Merkel, the EU's most powerful leader, has to save Europe from itself. |
The Motley Fool
October 21, 2010
Andrew Bond |
U.K. to Establish "Maximum Attainable" Bank Tax Banks may decide to move operations outside U.K. if tax deemed too harsh. |
BusinessWeek
April 28, 2010
Charlie Rose |
Charlie Rose Talks to Christine Lagarde The French Finance Minister speaks frankly about the Greek debt crisis and the need for global financial regulations in this edited version of a recent interview. |
BusinessWeek
July 25, 2005
Jack Ewing |
Germany's Merkel: Thatcher Lite? German businesses had hoped for a tougher plan from the chair of the Christian Democratic Union, though many believe Angela Merkel has more reforms up her sleeve. |
The Motley Fool
March 23, 2010
Joe Magyer |
Greece: What the Heck Is Going On? An average Joe's guide to the Greek contagion. |
BusinessWeek
September 16, 2010
Bryan Keogh |
David Cameron's Budget Thrills Bond Buyers A pledge to shrink the British deficit has sent bond prices sky-high |
BusinessWeek
May 20, 2010
Peter Coy |
Commentary: Come Together The euro zone's crisis can only be solved by unity, says ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet. So why is everyone talking about blowing it up? |
BusinessWeek
February 25, 2010
Charlie Rose |
Peter Orszag: Putting the Deficit on a Diet A conversation with Peter Orszag, Director of the Office of Management & Budget. |
National Defense
October 2012
Lawrence P. Farrell Jr. |
Let's Face It: There Is No Shelter From the Fast Rising $$ Storm Defense faces a more than $50 billion reduction per year if sequestration is allowed to occur. Cuts through 2017 of 21 percent are less than the 35 percent reduction after the Cold War wound down, but sequester makes the cut totally arbitrary. |
BusinessWeek
August 16, 2004 |
Italy Bites The Bullet The center-right government approved $20.4 billion in spending cuts and $8.4 billion in one-time, revenue-raising measures to control the ballooning budget deficit. |
The Motley Fool
March 24, 2010
Jordan DiPietro |
Is This the Collapse of the Eurozone? Disagreements between EU members over Greece could result in an eventual break-up of the union and the collapse of the euro. |
BusinessWeek
June 21, 2004
Michael J. Mandel |
Reaganomics vs. Rubinomics The heavyweight economy policy debate over the past two decades has been Reaganomics vs. Rubinomics. The two philosophies seem to have fought each other to a draw. |
BusinessWeek
July 21, 2003
David Fairlamb |
Germany: Putting the Stability Pact in Peril Despite widespread expectations that Germany will breach the Stability & Growth Pact for a second straight year in 2003, German Finance Minister Hans Eichel says his tax cuts won't threaten efforts to keep the 2004 budget deficit below the 3% of gross domestic product limit. |
BusinessWeek
May 27, 2010
Lindblad & Winter |
Red Ink from Sea to Shining Sea All across the country, states are in various stages of fiscal crisis. Here are some of the most at-risk. |
BusinessWeek
August 5, 2010
Peter Coy |
The Wisdom and Folly of the Bush Tax Cuts Most economists agree there's little choice but to end tax cuts from George W. Bush's era. That means the fiscal war in Washington is only going to get uglier. |
BusinessWeek
December 2, 2010
Norman Pearlstine |
Norman Pearlstine Talks with Mehmet Sinsek An interview with Turkey's Finance Minister on why its economy is growing so fast. |
The Motley Fool
August 1, 2011
Morgan Housel |
Crisis Averted? The Latest on the Debt Ceiling What you need to know about the mess in Washington. |
