Writings by Topic: Government Spending
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| Spending, Not Tax Cuts, Drives Federal Budget Deficits (2 comments) |
February 14, 2024 |
| The Gold-PCE Divergence |
December 22, 2023 |
| How Government Grows |
October 20, 2023 |
| An Aid Package for a Four-Front War |
October 18, 2023 |
Review: Life After Capitalism: The Meaning of Wealth, the Future of the Economy, and the Time Theory of Money
by George Gilder |
June 4, 2023 |
| Buffett Berkshire Hathaway Annual Letter for 2022 (1 comment) |
February 26, 2023 |
| New York Cannabis Subsidy |
November 13, 2022 |
| Missile Defense Biden Scorned Would Sure Be Useful Now |
April 26, 2022 |
| Ukraine Aid |
March 20, 2022 |
| Price Controls (1 comment) |
January 30, 2022 |
| Solar Stimulus Risks Repeat of Failures (1 comment) |
November 19, 2021 |
| Did Anyone Miss the Transportation Secretary? |
October 20, 2021 |
| Mankiw on Biden's Spending Blowout (1 comment) |
September 17, 2021 |
| Highway Exit Renumbering |
June 13, 2021 |
| Government Pays Parents to Keep Children Home From School |
April 15, 2021 |
| Jamie Dimon 2020 JP Morgan Chase Letter (1 comment) |
April 11, 2021 |
| Expanded, Refundable Child Tax Credit |
March 17, 2021 |
| Get Ready For the Biden Baby Boom (1 comment) |
March 11, 2021 |
| Rattner on the Inflation Threat and the Waste in the Stimulus Bill |
March 7, 2021 |
| Biden's Borrowing Binge |
February 2, 2021 |
| Welfare for Journalists (5 comments) |
December 22, 2020 |
| Back To Work |
November 27, 2018 |
| Juxtaposition of the Day (1 comment) |
June 22, 2018 |
| California Police Pay |
May 8, 2018 |
| A Thought For Presidents' Day (1 comment) |
February 19, 2018 |
| Guess Who Is Driving $80,000 Vehicles? |
February 16, 2018 |
| Trump Proposes Demolishing FBI Headquarters (93 comments) |
February 12, 2018 |
| Annotated Trump State of the Union |
February 1, 2018 |
| NPR Leers at Gisele Bundchen (3 comments) |
January 14, 2018 |
| Swiss Banker Acquitted |
January 9, 2018 |
| Richest Counties (3 comments) |
December 8, 2017 |
| Travels With Lizbeth (1 comment) |
November 3, 2017 |
| Newseum (2 comments) |
October 23, 2017 |
| America's Decline, in Two Photos (1 comment) |
September 20, 2017 |
| Virtually Every Economist |
August 3, 2017 |
| Canadian Steps |
July 20, 2017 |
| Access To Obama White House Paid Off For Corporate Executives |
May 1, 2017 |
| The Problem With Block Grants (1 comment) |
January 24, 2017 |
| Jamie Dimon Interview |
December 22, 2016 |
| Pentagon Waste |
December 6, 2016 |
| Allison at Treasury? |
November 28, 2016 |
| Biden Takes Taxpayers For a Ride With Amtrak Subsidy (1 comment) |
September 13, 2016 |
| On Roads, Clinton and Trump May Both Be Wrong (3 comments) |
August 21, 2016 |
| Birth Control Leads to More Births, Economists Find (2 comments) |
June 14, 2016 |
| Anti-Israel Billboard (2 comments) |
March 22, 2016 |
| Behind the BPS Walkout (1 comment) |
March 7, 2016 |
| Epstein on Gordon (1 comment) |
March 1, 2016 |
| Lawyers for Homeless Panhandlers Rack Up $1.5 million in Fees (3 comments) |
January 12, 2016 |
| America's Most Wasted |
January 7, 2016 |
| Taxpayers Pay for Peanuts (1 comment) |
November 24, 2015 |
| Government Inefficiency (3 comments) |
November 9, 2015 |
| Paid Patriotism (3 comments) |
November 5, 2015 |
| Grover Norquist on Spending and Taxes |
October 21, 2015 |
| Bay Bridge Cost Overrun (2 comments) |
October 14, 2015 |
| Bush At Bedford |
October 1, 2015 |
| The Federal Marriage Penalty |
September 8, 2015 |
| Slavery and the Welfare State (2 comments) |
September 6, 2015 |
| AEI's Strain on the BLS Budget (2 comments) |
August 14, 2015 |
| HBO and PBS (1 comment) |
August 14, 2015 |
| Government Waste |
July 15, 2015 |
| More Perverse Incentives (2 comments) |
June 23, 2015 |
| Perverse Incentives (1 comment) |
June 23, 2015 |
| Federal Funds for Beachfront Vacation Home (1 comment) |
June 3, 2015 |
| Five Think Tanks on the National Debt Problem (1 comment) |
May 28, 2015 |
| The Feds Versus Buses (1 comment) |
May 26, 2015 |
| Disinherited |
May 26, 2015 |
| Sell Amtrak to Make It Safer (1 comment) |
May 19, 2015 |
| Wright Brothers Versus Government |
May 4, 2015 |
| ObamaCare and Organogenesis |
April 23, 2015 |
| Penn Professor Backs 90 Percent Tax Rate (2 comments) |
April 14, 2015 |
| The Real One Percent |
March 31, 2015 |
| Government Email (4 comments) |
March 4, 2015 |
| The Government's $3.2 Trillion Loan Portfolio (1 comment) |
January 5, 2015 |
| Building Big in Boston |
January 5, 2015 |
| The House of Repeal (2 comments) |
December 23, 2014 |
| The CIA's Tax-Exempt Psychologists |
December 11, 2014 |
| More Subsidized Failure (1 comment) |
November 25, 2014 |
| Obama, AEI Push Infrastructure (1 comment) |
November 6, 2014 |
| The Case Against Increased Infrastructure Spending |
November 3, 2014 |
| Why Dot-Com Works Better Than Dot-Gov (3 comments) |
October 15, 2014 |
| Secret Service Budget (2 comments) |
October 1, 2014 |
| Medicare Wheelchairs (1 comment) |
August 19, 2014 |
| Governor Patrick Office Renovation |
August 7, 2014 |
| Mexican Embassy Cost (1 comment) |
June 23, 2014 |
| Privatize the VA |
June 17, 2014 |
| Food Stamp Fraud |
June 12, 2014 |
| Homeland Security Headquarters |
May 21, 2014 |
| Mass. Welfare Money Spent in Florida |
May 8, 2014 |
| Jamie Dimon's Annual Letter |
April 9, 2014 |
| Washington's War on Youth (1 comment) |
April 8, 2014 |
| Ryan Budget Q and A |
April 2, 2014 |
| Paul Ryan's Budget |
April 1, 2014 |
| Paper and Filing Cabinets (2 comments) |
March 24, 2014 |
| Bill Gates on Welfare, Energy, and God (3 comments) |
March 18, 2014 |
| Spending on Empty Federal Buildings |
March 13, 2014 |
| CFPB's $23 Million Temporary Lease |
March 7, 2014 |
| Nobel Laureate Fama on Politicians |
March 6, 2014 |
| Martin Feldstein on the Retirement Age |
March 4, 2014 |
| Ladder Versus Safety Net (1 comment) |
February 10, 2014 |
| Government-Subsidized Interstate Moves |
February 4, 2014 |
| Heat and Eat (1 comment) |
February 3, 2014 |
| Earmarks Never Die |
January 16, 2014 |
| Bloomberg on the SEC Budget |
January 15, 2014 |
| Catfish Inspections |
January 10, 2014 |
| What Really Fuels Inequality (1 comment) |
January 8, 2014 |
| Congressional Research Service on Taxes |
January 8, 2014 |
| Bloomberg's Dasani Defense |
December 18, 2013 |
| Coburn's Wastebook (1 comment) |
December 18, 2013 |
| Breakfast and Lunch in Dallas (1 comment) |
December 4, 2013 |
| NPR's Cartoons (1 comment) |
November 4, 2013 |
| Walmart and Food Stamps |
October 31, 2013 |
| Sugar Price Supports (3 comments) |
October 31, 2013 |
| Shutdown's Upside |
October 8, 2013 |
| Use It Or Lose It Season (1 comment) |
October 2, 2013 |
| The CFPB's Palace |
September 30, 2013 |
| Spend It Or Lose It (1 comment) |
September 10, 2013 |
| Farm Apprentices Learn Government Grant-Writing |
September 2, 2013 |
| Vedder on the Federal College Aid Explosion |
August 23, 2013 |
| The Greek Yogurt Lobby (1 comment) |
July 12, 2013 |
| The Sequester Scare |
July 8, 2013 |
| Richard Epstein and Ruth Messinger |
June 25, 2013 |
| Armory Gives Conflicting Information on Funding of Snow White Show (1 comment) |
June 20, 2013 |
| AEI Versus the Flat Tax (3 comments) |
May 28, 2013 |
| Disability Nation (6 comments) |
May 17, 2013 |
| The Plausibility Plague |
May 6, 2013 |
Review: Big, Hot, Cheap, and Right: What American Can Learn From the Strange Genius of Texas
by Erica Grieder |
May 3, 2013 |
| Stanley Fischer on Israel's Growth (1 comment) |
May 2, 2013 |
| Buffett's Buses (1 comment) |
April 29, 2013 |
| Privately Funded Medical Research Breakthrough (2 comments) |
April 11, 2013 |
| Biden's Hotel Bill (1 comment) |
March 22, 2013 |
| Montauk Highway |
March 18, 2013 |
| Cliff Asness on Compromise (5 comments) |
March 6, 2013 |
| Crimson Economics (1 comment) |
March 5, 2013 |
| Keith Hennessey on the Politics of the Sequester |
March 5, 2013 |
| Druckenmiller on the Sequester (3 comments) |
March 1, 2013 |
| Krauthammer on the Sequester (1 comment) |
March 1, 2013 |
| Sequester Versus Tax Increase Chart (2 comments) |
February 26, 2013 |
| An Annotated State of the Union (1 comment) |
February 13, 2013 |
| George Will on a Balanced Budget Amendment (1 comment) |
February 7, 2013 |
| The President's Sequester Remarks |
February 6, 2013 |
| Avoiding The Entitlement Monsters (1 comment) |
February 5, 2013 |
| The Downside of Infrastructure Investment |
February 1, 2013 |
| Jindal's Speech (3 comments) |
January 27, 2013 |
| Rubio on the Debt Ceiling |
January 15, 2013 |
| Bloomberg on Disability |
January 8, 2013 |
| McConnell's Marker (2 comments) |
January 3, 2013 |
| Eliminate the Commerce Secretary (1 comment) |
January 2, 2013 |
| A Positive Sign From Washington |
December 31, 2012 |
| John Cochrane on the Fiscal Cliff (2 comments) |
December 25, 2012 |
| Cleveland Clinic CEO Interview |
December 19, 2012 |
| Gordon Gee's Pay (6 comments) |
December 18, 2012 |
| The Government Publicist Boom |
December 17, 2012 |
| Spending Is The Problem Graph (1 comment) |
December 14, 2012 |
| Sports Welfare |
December 12, 2012 |
| Ed Glaeser on Welfare Reform (1 comment) |
December 12, 2012 |
| California Public Sector Salaries |
December 11, 2012 |
| Kristof on Welfare (2 comments) |
December 9, 2012 |
| Michael Barone on Disability Nation (1 comment) |
December 3, 2012 |
| The Spending Piece of the Fiscal Cliff |
November 27, 2012 |
| Romney's 'Gifts' Explanation (6 comments) |
November 20, 2012 |
| Disaster Subsidy (2 comments) |
November 19, 2012 |
| USA Today on Flood Insurance (2 comments) |
November 14, 2012 |
| Federal Disasters (1 comment) |
October 30, 2012 |
| Obama, Ryan Extended Federal Flood Insurance Subsidy (2 comments) |
October 29, 2012 |
| Local Government Hiring (1 comment) |
October 5, 2012 |
| Subsidized Cellphone Program (3 comments) |
September 28, 2012 |
| 'Not a Tax Cut' (3 comments) |
September 27, 2012 |
| Second Breakfast at Taxpayer Expense |
September 27, 2012 |
| Ross Douthat on the Imperial Capital (2 comments) |
September 23, 2012 |
| Imperial Capital |
September 20, 2012 |
| New York Food Stamp Outreach (2 comments) |
September 13, 2012 |
| Free School Breakfast for Everyone (3 comments) |
September 10, 2012 |
| George Will on Soda (2 comments) |
August 23, 2012 |
| Romney Versus the National Endowment for the Humanities (1 comment) |
August 20, 2012 |
| Romney Takes the Highway (2 comments) |
August 15, 2012 |
| Clive Crook on Medicare (1 comment) |
August 15, 2012 |
| Stockman on Neoconservative Imperialism (2 comments) |
August 14, 2012 |
| Obama Built That (1 comment) |
August 10, 2012 |
| Welfare Voter Registration |
August 9, 2012 |
| Public Housing Parking Lot |
August 8, 2012 |
| Taxing the Rich and the Rest (2 comments) |
August 7, 2012 |
| Amtrak Loses Money on Food (3 comments) |
August 3, 2012 |
| Government Spending as Percent of GDP |
July 31, 2012 |
| Elizabeth Warren's China Ad (1 comment) |
July 31, 2012 |
| Toomey on Taxes and Entitlements (1 comment) |
July 25, 2012 |
| Obama's Bogus Budget Cuts (1 comment) |
July 17, 2012 |
| More On Obama's Stump Speech (1 comment) |
July 17, 2012 |
| Welfare Cigarettes (2 comments) |
July 9, 2012 |
| Food Stamp Nation |
July 5, 2012 |
| Ban The Word 'Trillion' (3 comments) |
June 26, 2012 |
| Ad Spending and the Health Care Law (1 comment) |
June 21, 2012 |
| Don't Replace Bryson (2 comments) |
June 21, 2012 |
| The Postwar Boom (2 comments) |
June 21, 2012 |
| Teachers, Cops and Firefighters (1 comment) |
June 12, 2012 |
| Federal Helium Program Rises Again (4 comments) |
May 18, 2012 |
| Leucadia's Letter (2 comments) |
April 16, 2012 |
| CIA Student Internships (2 comments) |
April 11, 2012 |
| Bush Institute 4 Percent Growth Conference (2 comments) |
April 11, 2012 |
Review: No They Can't: Why Government Fails — But Individuals Succeed (2 comments)
by John Stossel |
April 9, 2012 |
| CBS on Europe |
March 30, 2012 |
| Feds Pay Fishermen Not To Fish |
March 2, 2012 |
| Richard Epstein on Safety Nets (1 comment) |
February 29, 2012 |
| Fisker, A123 Under Stress |
February 13, 2012 |
| Growth Is Slower as Government Gets Bigger (1 comment) |
February 9, 2012 |
| Richard Epstein on Yale |
February 7, 2012 |
| Superbowl Stadium Subsidies |
February 5, 2012 |
| USA Today on Disabled America |
February 3, 2012 |
| Government Spending and the Economy |
January 30, 2012 |
| Conservative Obama Appears |
January 23, 2012 |
| Brooks' Latest (3 comments) |
January 6, 2012 |
| China's Rail |
December 29, 2011 |
| David Brooks on Spending and Results (1 comment) |
December 27, 2011 |
| Bus Boom (1 comment) |
December 26, 2011 |
| The Mega-Omni |
December 16, 2011 |
| Welfare Crack |
December 14, 2011 |
| Schumer's History |
December 14, 2011 |
| Vanguard's McNabb on the Debt (1 comment) |
November 25, 2011 |
| So Long, Supercommittee (1 comment) |
November 21, 2011 |
| Two From Paul Ryan (2 comments) |
November 18, 2011 |
| Sequester Gains Support on Right |
November 18, 2011 |
| Richard Epstein on Tobacco |
November 15, 2011 |
| School Dinners (1 comment) |
November 15, 2011 |
| Bill Clinton USA Today Interview |
November 7, 2011 |
| Kaus on Government Growth |
October 19, 2011 |
| Cost-Free Job-Creating Idea No. 22 |
October 12, 2011 |
| Republicans and Solyndra |
October 1, 2011 |
| Quote of the Day |
September 26, 2011 |
| Scott Walker and Mitch Daniels on Public Employee Unions (1 comment) |
September 23, 2011 |
| Imperial Capital |
September 22, 2011 |
| Gallup Poll on Wasted Spending (1 comment) |
September 21, 2011 |
| Gensler's Speechwriter (2 comments) |
September 21, 2011 |
| Over-Federalizing Disasters (3 comments) |
August 29, 2011 |
| John Steele Gordon on the Debt |
August 28, 2011 |
| The Broken Windows Fallacy (4 comments) |
August 28, 2011 |
| Barone on Buses (1 comment) |
August 24, 2011 |
| More on Buffett and Taxes (1 comment) |
August 16, 2011 |
| Imperial Capital (1 comment) |
August 16, 2011 |
| 40 School Lunch Experts |
August 15, 2011 |
| Israel's Wealth Gap (2 comments) |
August 12, 2011 |
| Sowell Reconsiders |
August 10, 2011 |
| Government's Hiring (1 comment) |
August 9, 2011 |
| Mark Twain House |
August 9, 2011 |
| The New Yorker's Assumptions (2 comments) |
August 8, 2011 |
| Levitt on the SEC Budget |
August 8, 2011 |
| One More on the Debt Deal (1 comment) |
August 3, 2011 |
| Grassley on the Debt Compromise |
August 2, 2011 |
| Remarkable, Indeed (1 comment) |
August 2, 2011 |
| Corzine To Washington? |
August 2, 2011 |
| WSJ Versus Talk Radio (4 comments) |
August 1, 2011 |
| The Big Picture (2 comments) |
July 29, 2011 |
| Jonah Goldberg on Reagan |
July 29, 2011 |
| Ryan on the Budget |
July 27, 2011 |
| Profiles in Courage |
July 26, 2011 |
| Five Facts About the Debt |
July 25, 2011 |
| Barone on the Budget |
July 24, 2011 |
| Norquist in the NYT |
July 22, 2011 |
| Budgets and Brothers (4 comments) |
July 18, 2011 |
| Obama's Press Conference (3 comments) |
July 15, 2011 |
| Taylor's Budget Two-Step |
July 14, 2011 |
| Obama and the Budget |
July 14, 2011 |
| Catholicism and the Budget Battle (1 comment) |
July 11, 2011 |
| Obama's Press Conference (2 comments) |
July 11, 2011 |
| Jonathan Macey on the SEC |
July 10, 2011 |
| Obama's Agenda (2 comments) |
July 8, 2011 |
| Good News on Employment (1 comment) |
July 8, 2011 |
Review: The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What's Wrong With America (1 comment)
by Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch |
July 3, 2011 |
| USA Today on the Imperial Capital |
June 21, 2011 |
| California Municipal Bonds at Work (1 comment) |
June 15, 2011 |
| Kemp on Cuts and Growth |
June 1, 2011 |
| Squandering Medicare's Money (3 comments) |
May 26, 2011 |
| Boskin on Government and Growth (3 comments) |
May 25, 2011 |
| Pawlenty on Means-Testing Social Security (5 comments) |
May 25, 2011 |
| Budgets and Generosity |
May 23, 2011 |
| Clifford Asness on 1967 |
May 20, 2011 |
| Robert Rubin on the Debt Ceiling |
May 18, 2011 |
| Funding the IMF (1 comment) |
May 16, 2011 |
| Bloomberg Spins Its Own Poll |
May 13, 2011 |
| You Cut |
May 11, 2011 |
| Lifestyles of Government Lifeguards (1 comment) |
May 11, 2011 |
| Josh Barro on the Debt Limit (1 comment) |
May 11, 2011 |
| A Tax on Political Power |
May 10, 2011 |
| Shlaes on the Budget |
May 10, 2011 |
| Norquist on Now or Later |
May 6, 2011 |
| Caroline Baum on the Behemoth |
May 5, 2011 |
| USA Today on Government Pay (2 comments) |
May 3, 2011 |
| Shlaes on a New Gramm-Rudman |
May 3, 2011 |
| USA Today on Federal Income Dependence (1 comment) |
April 26, 2011 |
| The New Civility (2 comments) |
April 18, 2011 |
| Debt Limit Vote |
April 18, 2011 |
| Comment of the Day (1 comment) |
April 17, 2011 |
| Photos of the Day (2 comments) |
April 15, 2011 |
| Ryan Responds (1 comment) |
April 15, 2011 |
| Obama's Budget Speech (2 comments) |
April 13, 2011 |
| Sowell on Spending (1 comment) |
April 12, 2011 |
| Spending Versus Cutting |
April 10, 2011 |
| Singer on a Shutdown |
April 8, 2011 |
| Nonessential Personnel (1 comment) |
April 7, 2011 |
| Paul Ryan YouTube |
April 5, 2011 |
| Paul Ryan's Plan (1 comment) |
April 4, 2011 |
| New York Times on the Budget (2 comments) |
April 1, 2011 |
| Beyond the Welfare State (1 comment) |
March 30, 2011 |
| Schumer and 'Extreme' (2 comments) |
March 30, 2011 |
| How Government Grows (1 comment) |
March 25, 2011 |
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