You seen anything better? =========== By PAUL RYAN Less than a year ago, the House of Representatives passed a budget that took on our generation’s greatest domestic challenge: reforming and modernizing government to prevent an explosion of debt from crippling our nation and robbing our children of their future. Absent reform, government programs designed in the middle of the 20th century cannot fulfill their... Read more
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Paul Ryan: The GOP Budget and Americas Future
March 23 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Debt, US DebtGreek crisis .. it’s game theory
February 23 | Posted by mrossol | Debt, EconomicsBy Matthew Lynn LONDON (MarketWatch 2/23/12) — What movie should you watch to try and understand the torturous progress of Europe’s debt crisis? “Zorba the Greek,” maybe? “The Never-Ending Story,” perhaps? In fact, the best thing you could slot into the DVD player would be ‘A Beautiful Mind’, Ron Howard’s well-crafted film about the mathematical genius John Nash. The latest round of... Read more
Hungary won’t be the last . . .
January 11 | Posted by mrossol | Debt, EconomicsA word to the wise.. ======== By Matthew Lynn LONDON (MarketWatch) — Much like Greece, Hungary was one of those small, slightly peripheral countries that most people in the financial markets probably thought they could get through a career without ever worrying about very much. With a population of slightly less than 10 million, and with a total gross domestic product of less than... Read more
The Union Zee Bridge
December 1 | Posted by mrossol | Debt, Party Politics, The LeftWhat does it take for some people to learn a lesson? ======= Andrew Cuomo has a bridge to sell you, and we wish that was the set-up to a punch line. The New York Governor and government unions are hatching a plan to use the state’s pension funds to bankroll public works like replacing the Tappan Zee Bridge. In a radio interview with... Read more
