Tag: Fiscal Policy

Beltway Confidential

Second Federal Reserve member calls for easier money

Joseph Lawler · June 24, 2013 4:00 am

President Barack Obama announced he would nominate Jason Furman, a veteran White House economic official, as chairman of his Council of Economic Advisers. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

On the rise: Jason Furman, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers

Joseph Lawler · June 21, 2013 4:00 am

President Obama hinted last night that Ben Bernanke will not be reappointed to a third term as Federal Reserve Chairman when his current term ends in January. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Beltway Confidential

Federal Reserve meeting begins amid uncertainty over monetary policy

Joseph Lawler · June 18, 2013 4:00 am

Miscellaneous Tariff Bills serve as a workaround for some lawmakers to send pork to constituents back home. (Thinkstock)

Beltway Confidential

CBO score of immigration bill’s effect on budget comes out Tuesday

Joel Gehrke · June 17, 2013 12:00 am

President Obama might find it easier to defuse Syriaâs chemical weapons than the wrath of feminists if he doesnât promote Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Janet Yellen to the chairmanâs position. (AP/Eugene Hoshiko)

Janet Yellen’s ascendancy shows durability of Ben Bernanke’s program

Joseph Lawler · June 16, 2013 4:00 am

âA foreign worker will never be hired to undercut an American workerâs wage,â Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., left, claimed on the Senate floor yesterday in his opening statement in support of his Schumer-Rubio immigration reform bill. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Beltway Confidential

Morning Examiner: The Schumer-Rubio-Obamacare tax on employing Americans

Conn Carroll · June 12, 2013 4:00 am

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said the National Security Agency's data mining violates our Fourth Amendment right to be "secure in their persons, houses, papers" and is "tyranny that our founders rebelled against." (Photo: Thinkstock)

Beltway Confidential

Contracting and the surveillance lobby

Timothy P. Carney · June 10, 2013 4:00 am

Patrick McFarland, Inspector-General for the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, told a congressional subcommittee his agency has a $2 billion "revolving fund" that he can't audit. (OPM Photo)

Big problems in $2 billion OPM fund but IG can’t touch it

Kelly Cohen · June 7, 2013 4:00 am

According to a new study by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, it is not because the federal government failed to borrow and spend too little during the height of the economic downturn. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Beltway Confidential

Fed study: Tax hikes, not spending cuts, are slowing the recovery

Conn Carroll · June 7, 2013 4:00 am

Two conservatives â Sen. Mike Lee, above, of Utah and Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan â introduced bills in their respective chambers to wind down the agency, which uses taxpayer-backed loans and loan guarantees to help U.S. companies sell overseas. (AP Photo/Steve C. Wilson)

Beltway Confidential

Free-market populism: Lee & Amash propose bill to kill export-subsidy agency

Timothy P. Carney · June 6, 2013 4:00 am

Philip Klein: Yes, there’s still a debt problem

Philip Klein · June 5, 2013 4:00 am

Beltway Confidential

Morning Examiner: Obama’s ‘nuclear option’ on the budget

Conn Carroll · June 4, 2013 4:00 am