Craig Eyermann | Saturday September 29, 2018 at 10:00 AM PDT
With the close of FY18 looming, federal spending is expected to skyrocket.
Tag: federal spending
Craig Eyermann | Tuesday September 25, 2018 at 9:00 AM PDT
The proposed spending bill funds key programs at a hefty price tag.
Craig Eyermann | Thursday August 23, 2018 at 2:42 PM PDT
With billions left to spend, cronyism will abound.
Craig Eyermann | Monday July 23, 2018 at 12:03 PM PDT
Not fully paying for themselves nor “exploding” the deficit.
Craig Eyermann | Monday July 16, 2018 at 4:05 PM PDT
The entire increase in this year’s deficit is due to spending hikes.
Jonathan Bean | Thursday October 5, 2017 at 6:00 PM PDT
In another post, Randall Holcombe rightly notes the pressing need for tax reform. Holcombe argues that Trump’s proposed tax reform is “an improvement over the current system.” That may be true; time will tell. Yet, today my news feed reports nonchalantly that the Republican Congress passed a budget in excess of $4 trillion. That…
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Robert Higgs | Wednesday February 18, 2015 at 1:39 PM PST
Many economists and other analysts have recognized that the recovery from the U.S. economy’s most recent contraction has been unusually weak—weaker, for example, than any other since World War II. But analysts have disagreed in characterizing the current recovery, which according to the National Bureau of Economic Research, the semi-official arbiter of business-cycle chronology,…
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Robert Higgs | Thursday June 23, 2011 at 1:49 PM PDT
Since late December 2008, the bank prime lending rate — the interest rate banks charge their best corporate customers — has remained steady at 3.25 percent. Meanwhile, during the same period, the excess reserves that commercial banks hold at the Fed have increased from $2 billion in August 2008 to $1,513 billion in May 2011. Ordinarily,…
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David Theroux | Monday May 16, 2011 at 11:13 AM PDT
In their new study, “The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: Public Sector Jobs Saved, Private Sector Jobs Forestalled,” economists Timothy Conley (University of Western Ontario) and Bill Dupor (Ohio State University) present their empirical findings of the economic impact on employment of the 2009 Obama stimulus package of $787 billion, entitled the American Recovery…
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David Theroux | Thursday May 12, 2011 at 10:46 PM PDT
Independent Institute Research Fellow Emily Skarbek is interviewed here by Nick Gillespie of Reason TV regarding the Institute’s very timely and far-reaching Government Cost Calculator. The Calculator enables any American to clearly understand three aspects of federal government spending. First, the Calculator helps you determine how much a person will pay for various federal…
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