CRFB.org Stimulus.org US Budget Watch Peterson-Pew Commission E-mail list sign up : Subscribe Unsubscribe Search : Home Documents Blog News Events About Contact Recent Posts Trichet Calls for Ambitious’ Debt Reduction Line’ Items : Emmy Edition CRFB President Comments on Fiscal Policy in Jackson Hole Presidential Panel Releases Tax Reform Report A Liberal Voice for Budget Reform CRFB Releases Its Realistic Baselines S P Warns U.S . About Credit Rating Current Policy Extensions and Growth By month August 2010 42 July 2010 60 June 2010 63 May 2010 45 April 2010 64 March 2010 65 February 2010 61 January 2010 60 December 2009 49 November 2009 51 October 2009 54 September 2009 53 All Archives By Keyword Budget 146 CBO 89 Congress 166 Deficits and Debt 253 Economy 99 Financial Sector Policy 40
About half the homes in Britain could share in a £7bn “rooftop bonanza” worth up to £1,000 a year each, according to British Gas, which aims to make it easier to take advantage of Government green energy initiatives.
Householders will not need to put up any capital to participate in a new “rent a roof” scheme [...]
Ireland must now pay more than Greece to borrow.
Dublin has played by the book. It has taken pre-emptive steps to please the markets and the EU. It has done an IMF job without the IMF. Indeed, is has gone further than the IMF would have dared to go.
It has imposed draconian austerity measures. The solidarity [...]
Canada could be better off going it alone and saying no to new bank capital rules Government regulations come with costs, a point made clearly last week by the Bank of Canada in a series of assessments of possible new financial regulation. But would the benefits of those new regulations — imposing higher capital and [...]
Thinking about tapping into your 401(k) early? Think again - at least if you want a shot at a secure retirement.
In a recent report, Fidelity Investments notes that the percentage of Fidelity customers who borrowed from their 401(k)s increased over the past year from nine to 11 percent. Currently, a whopping 22 percent of account holders [...]
Northern Rock has been forced to temporarily withdraw its offer to cut mortgage application fees to £99 – although it says that it will honour its promise to homebuyers who applied yesterday when the deal was briefly introduced.
A spokesman for the Government-owned bank said: “Regrettably, due to an internal system error, this change has been [...]
Spain is putting all its eggs into one basket, and if it carries on like this, we may start to see a lot of Basques and Catalans crowding into one exit.
The state pension fund – the €64bn Fondo de Reserva, known as the ‘hucha de las pensiones‘ – is buying Spanish sovereign debt at a [...]
Zarin Patel, the BBC’s finance director, needs to find a way to bridge a predicted £2billion deficit in the BBC’s pension scheme. Her principal proposal – the one which has taken the BBC to the brink of a strike – is to break the link between actual pay and pensionable pay. Under the proposals, BBC [...]
CBC’s As It Happens’ rose-coloured historical revisionism of the Jimmy Reid story To speak well of the dead is both respectful and prudent. However, the burial on Thursday of Jimmy Reid, an iconic former Scottish Trade Unionist, has produced some rose-coloured historical revisionism that needs to be addressed. The CBC’s As It Happens promoted the [...]
CRFB.org Stimulus.org US Budget Watch Peterson-Pew Commission E-mail list sign up : Subscribe Unsubscribe Search : Home Documents Blog News Events About Contact Recent Posts Trichet Calls for Ambitious’ Debt Reduction Line’ Items : Emmy Edition CRFB President Comments on Fiscal Policy in Jackson Hole Presidential Panel Releases Tax Reform Report A Liberal Voice for Budget Reform CRFB Releases Its Realistic Baselines S P Warns U.S . About Credit Rating Current Policy Extensions and Growth By month August 2010 42 July 2010 60 June 2010 63 May 2010 45 April 2010 64 March 2010 65 February 2010 61 January 2010 60 December 2009 49 November 2009 51 October 2009 54 September 2009 53 All Archives By Keyword Budget 146 CBO 89 Congress 166 Deficits and Debt 253 Economy 99 Financial Sector Policy 40
CRFB.org Stimulus.org US Budget Watch Peterson-Pew Commission E-mail list sign up : Subscribe Unsubscribe Search : Home Documents Blog News Events About Contact Recent Posts Trichet Calls for Ambitious’ Debt Reduction Line’ Items : Emmy Edition CRFB President Comments on Fiscal Policy in Jackson Hole Presidential Panel Releases Tax Reform Report A Liberal Voice for Budget Reform CRFB Releases Its Realistic Baselines S P Warns U.S . About Credit Rating Current Policy Extensions and Growth By month August 2010 42 July 2010 60 June 2010 63 May 2010 45 April 2010 64 March 2010 65 February 2010 61 January 2010 60 December 2009 49 November 2009 51 October 2009 54 September 2009 53 All Archives By Keyword Budget 146 CBO 89 Congress 166 Deficits and Debt 253 Economy 99 Financial Sector Policy 40Our birthday present to you is that we are going to stop policymakers from chopping you to pieces.
Social Security, you’ve been providing an economic lifeline that millions of Americans rely on. It’s too bad that on your 75th birthday, you’re under siege like never before.
What a bunch of ingrates, right? You’ve become so wildly successful [...]