Cynics about government find much to be cynical about..

The federal budget deficit is the biggest single impediment to revitalizing the American economy..

The 'American dream' ... means an economy in which people who work hard can get ahead and each new generation lives better than the last one. The 'Am….

Politicians pay more attention to interest groups than to the public interest..

The job of the Central Bank is to worry..

If simple, painless solutions to public problems existed, they would have been found long ago..

most economists, like doctors, are reluctant to make predictions, and those who make them are seldom accurate. The economy, like the human body, is a….

The increase in inequality in income is a longtime trend, but the pressure on middle- and low-income workers is going up rapidly. Especially if they ….

One would hope that you would have a CBO director who does not let ideology get in the way of making good estimates. [Congress] values having a credi….