Deficit

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Oct. 26, 2011 - In the aftermath of the debt ceiling debacle last August, a bipartisan Super…

Thank you for joining us earlier this morning for the live webcast of President Obama's address on his deficit reduction plan.For a summary of his address…

The president will say his plan would pare $4 trillion more from federal deficits over the next decade. He's adding more than $3 trillion to the amount that lawmakers have already agreed to.

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Aug. 14, 2011 - As a graduate student, I learned the fallacy of ascribing a single cause to a…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Aug. 12, 2011 - Every one of the 12 seats on the new "super" Congress deficit committee has been…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Aug. 11, 2011 - WASHINGTON - In the midst of volatile stock-market swings and international questions…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, July 30, 2011 - WASHINGTON - With the hot air inside the Capitol surpassing the sweltering…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, July 29, 2011 - WASHINGTON - All the sound and fury in Congress over paying what some call "the…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, July 28, 2011 - If he is inclined toward optimism about his political future, President Barack Obama…

According to Mo. Sen. Roy Blunt the bipartisan “Gang of Six” plan to raise the debt ceiling and cut the deficit by $4 trillion is too complicated to agree…