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Front & Center | March 4, 2009
Veto This Turkey
By Will Marshall
The Senate this week seems likely to pass an earmark-laden, $410 billion omnibus spending bill leftover from the last fiscal year. Even though he is in no way responsible for this mess, we hope President Obama will veto the bill the moment it lands on his desk.
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Front & Center | March 2, 2009
Obama Budget Plan: Echoes of 'Memos'
By Will Marshall and Mark Ribbing
President Obama's budget outline contains several important policy reforms and innovations worth mentioning. Many of them mirror chapters in PPI's new book, Memos to the New President.
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Front & Center | February 6, 2009
Homebuyer Tax Credit Makes Sense for Economic Stimulus
By Paul Weinstein, Jr.
With the passage of a tax credit, potential home buyers may find an additional $15,000 too much to pass up. That's exactly what the housing market needs.
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Front & Center | February 4, 2009
Obama: Right on 'Buy American'
By Edward Gresser
President Obama's opposition to a "Buy American" clause in the stimulus bill is not only the right call, but a courageous one that shows the new administration is willing to do the right thing, even when it isn't the easy thing.
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Letter | January 27, 2009
Experts Back Obama's Fiscal Realism
PPI is proud to join a bipartisan group of leading budget analysts from various institutes in urging President Obama to deliver "A Budget We Can Believe In." Calling the President's forthcoming first budget "a defining document," the group, which features three former directors of the Congressional Budget Office and PPI's Will Marshall, said that fiscal blueprint must deal not only with the present economic emergency, but also assure America's fiscal stability and soundness over the long-run.
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Opinion | May 2, 2008
Let's Pop the Deficit Bubble
By Will Marshall
The U.S. Treasury recently reported that the federal deficit will hit a record high of $311 billion for the first half of the fiscal year, thanks in part to plunging corporate profits and revenues. The report was greeted with stifled yawns by official Washington.
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2008 Briefing Series | April 3, 2008
Fiscal & Tax Policy
By Paul Weinstein Jr. and Marc Dunkelman
Despite their dismal record in office, few can doubt that conservatives will once again this year pull out their classic playbook and try to unfairly label progressives as old "tax-and-spend" liberals. Progressives should be ready to answer those attacks.
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Policy Report | March 31, 2008
Taking Back Our Fiscal Future
Calling it "the huge problem the candidates are not talking about," a prominent group of veteran budget and policy analysts today proposed a novel way to avoid a fiscal train wreck: Take entitlement programs off auto pilot.
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Policy Report | October 18, 2007
Gimme Shelter
By Paul Weinstein Jr.
With a nearly 11 percent decline in United States home sales since last year and a staggering number of foreclosures, the U.S. is in the middle of a housing crisis. Paul Weinstein Jr. offers three specific proposals to help families who have already lost their homes and to reduce the number of those who are at risk of future foreclosure.
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Opinion | May 22, 2007
Debt Adds Up to National Security Deficit
By Paul Weinstein Jr.
The 2008 campaign is already defining itself as a contest over how to solve the problems George W. Bush will leave behind. To the long list of messes the next president will have to mop up, add another: the astonishing growth of America's budget deficit.
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Policy Report | April 30, 2007
Return to Fiscal Responsibility II
By Paul Weinstein Jr. and Katie McMinn Campbell
Here is a detailed blueprint for reducing the Bush deficits by $1.88 trillion over the next 10 years with a hit list of spending cuts, steps to restore budget discipline, and tax reform that will make a down payment on restoring progressivity and fairness.
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Policy Report | April 30, 2007
Why Deficits Still Matter
By Austan Goolsbee
Deficit reduction now functions as a crucial insurance policy against global financial shocks and over-reliance on foreign lenders, as well as national emergencies such as Hurricane Katrina's devastation of the Gulf Coast.
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Blueprint Magazine | April 23, 2007
Running on Empty
By Paul Weinstein Jr. and Katie McMinn Campbell
Bush has busted the federal budget. Here's how Democrats can save $1.8 trillion and restore some fiscal order.
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Blueprint Magazine | December 13, 2004
Fiscal Salvation
By Paul Weinstein Jr.
Democrats can lead the way to fiscal responsibility and become the nation's reform party.
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Blueprint Magazine | October 7, 2004
As Far As The Eye Can See ...
By Paul Weinstein Jr.
While most Americans are forced to live within their means, the Bush administration does not feel similarly constrained. That's unfortunate for us, because we and our children will have to pick up the tab.
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Blueprint Magazine | October 7, 2004
Empty Economics
By Robert D. Atkinson
Given the importance of securing our nation's fiscal future, it's surprising how much misunderstanding exists about it, both among the commentariat and the general public.
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Blueprint Magazine | July 25, 2004
A Progressive Growth Strategy
By Will Marshall and Robert Kuttner
The spectacular success of Clintonomics in the '90s and the abject failure of Bushonomics in the '00s has produced an unprecedented Democratic consensus on economic policy.
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Blueprint Magazine | July 25, 2004
Kerrynomics
By Paul Weinstein Jr.
Sen. John Kerry's economic plan would restore the pro-growth, fiscally responsible program of the 1990s.
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Speech | May 18, 2004
Remarks by Sen. John McCain at a Forum on the Fiscal Crisis in the United States
By Sen. John McCain
The current version of the Republican Party is engaged in an outrageous spending binge, and they're being steadied and encouraged by the Democrats.
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Speech | May 18, 2004
Remarks by Sen. Joseph Lieberman at a Forum on the Fiscal Crisis in the United States
By Sen. Joseph Lieberman
America's growing annual deficits, exploding long-term debt and skyrocketing unfunded liabilities are converging with the demographic surge of older Americans to form the perfect economic storm.
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