Sat. November 15, 2008
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Financial Post
November 15, 2008
Prime Minister Stephen Harper said
Canada looking at measures to keep the federal budget from slipping into deficit in what will be "difficult times ahead" ...
PEJ News
November 15, 2008
Mr. Flaherty was handed a country with record Federal budget surpluses, that have allowed
Canadians to pay down their national debt "by $95.6 billion" since ...
Austin American-Statesman
November 15, 2008
"Nobody can order us to do anything," Tanner said. True enough. And nobody realizes it more than Obama himself, who started wooing the Blue Dogs earlier ...
Business News Americas
November 15, 2008
By David Biller, Business News
Americas Mexico's lower house has approved the 2009 federal budget that includes 389.406bn pesos (US$30.06bn) for state oil ...
Atlanta Journal Constitution
November 15, 2008
By Jim Tharpe Libertarians have never won statewide office in Georgia, but suddenly their votes have become valuable currency in the extended
US Senate race ...
Albany Times Union
November 15, 2008
By RICHARD C. IANNUZZI Commenting on the federal budget in the 1960s, then-US Sen. Everett Dirksen said, "A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon ...
KMOO
November 15, 2008
With the holidays upon us, families are preparing to budget for gifts, food, and decorations. Most
Texas families do not have an unlimited amount of funds ...
BloggingStocks
November 15, 2008
In comparison, last year, fiscal 2008, the federal budget deficit was $455 billion, or about 3.2% of US GDP. While it's admittedly difficult for investors ...
Chicago Tribune
November 14, 2008
... expected as demand for imports plunged, further evidence of the struggling
US economy. Meanwhile, the federal budget deficit set a record in October. ...
Greater Fort Wayne Business Weekly
November 14, 2008
Maybe we wouldn't be happy to learn that for the last five years for which we have data (2001-2006), Muncie ranked last in economic growth among the 363 US ...
Ottawa Citizen
November 14, 2008
... went on to show us a very scary projection by the
Congressional Budget Office of what would happen to the
US federal budget if current trends continued ...
Euroweek.com
November 13, 2008
The Federal budget deficit in October was $237bn and the
market will soon be awash with new Treasury paper. "There is more supply coming in the back end. ...
Asia Times Online
November 12, 2008
Exhibit 11: Federal budget deficit as a % of gross private savings. We observe that in 1981, the deficit stood at around 15% of gross private savings, ...
Times Higher Education
November 12, 2008
"For good or evil, the higher
education portion of the federal budget is in the discretionary column. "The $4000
tax credit is very expensive. ...
Gallup Poll News
November 12, 2008
And though the public is skeptical in Obama's ability to avoid raising
taxes and to reduce the federal budget deficit, the public was also skeptical about ...
Asheville Citizen-Times
November 12, 2008
This is not a lot of money in the federal budget, but this is significant for our region." The money is used to pay for staff to provide counseling for ...
Bloomberg
November 12, 2008
The federal budget deficit may climb 58 percent to $687.5 billion for fiscal 2009 as US debt swells and the slowing economy crimps
tax receipts, ...
Middle East Times
November 11, 2008
... about the ballooning federal budget deficit, which some analysts now say could reach $1 trillion this year and keep on growing. Projections by two US ...
Bloomberg
November 11, 2008
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the US can afford to spend is complicated by the $700 billion the Treasury is using to rescue the
financial system, which may push the federal budget ...
Hawaii Reporter
November 11, 2008
By Lowell L. Kalapa, 11/10/2008 8:27:20 AM The doomsday outlook for the federal budget starts with current and past policies that have set the federal ...
USA Today
November 11, 2008
Majorities said they do not think Obama will be able to substantially reduce the federal budget, avoid raising
taxes or control illegal immigration. ...
Ha'aretz
November 11, 2008
By Nehemia Shtrasler There is no question that
the United States is shifting to the left. It has clearly decided on a significant change in its economic ...
RGE Monitor
November 11, 2008
The federal budget, according to Orszag, is on an "unsustainable path" with
health care costs growing much faster than the overall economy. ...
Boston Globe
November 11, 2008
the US ranks 15th out of 30 industrialized nations in the percentage of citizens with access to the Internet. Obama promises to make Internet access as ...
The Public Record
November 11, 2008
"Rapidly rising
health care costs are not simply a federal budget problem; they are our nation's number-one long-term fiscal challenge," the updated report ...
Central Maine Morning Sentinel
November 11, 2008
Of greater concern for states is the federal budget baseline deficit and a looming threat: the "T" word -- "trillion." The closer the baseline federal ...
Boston Globe
November 11, 2008
"Our principal sources of revenue are all likely to be affected by these new economic forces," she said, citing a report by US credit-rating agency Moody's ...
Reporter-Times
November 11, 2008
U.S. News & World Report
November 11, 2008
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the
US economy lost 240000 jobs last month, leaving 10.1 million
Americans unemployed. ...
eTaiwan News
November 10, 2008
The biggest single factor in this regard was the 1995 federal budget of former
finance Minister
Paul Martin, which reduced federal funding for
health care ...
ABC Online
November 10, 2008
"But the old bush telegraph has worked fairly quickly, it came back to us fairly quick smart as well." Liberal frontbencher Tony Abbott says the automotive ...
Chicago Tribune
November 10, 2008
Bush spokesman
Ari Fleischer said: "We were content to put it all behind us." Every transition has its snags-even when
the White House stays within the ...
The Public Record
November 10, 2008
"Rapidly rising
health care costs are not simply a federal budget problem; they are our nation's number-one long-term fiscal challenge," the updated report ...
Business Spectator
November 9, 2008
Moreover, with the sudden collapse of the federal budget surplus, there must be some doubt over the series of deals with the states that are expected to be ...
GulfNews
November 9, 2008
Three programs for the elderly already represent two-fifths of the $3 trillion federal budget:
Social Security, Medicare (health insurance) and Medicaid ...
Chicago Tribune
November 9, 2008
Bush spokesman
Ari Fleischer said: "We were content to put it all behind us." Every transition has its snags-even when
the White House stays within the ...
Federal Times
November 9, 2008
At the Democratic National Convention in August, Obama pledged to go through the federal budget line by line, eliminating programs that no longer work. ...
Bloomberg
November 9, 2008
1 3843 3838 Federal Budget $ Blns 11/13 Oct. -56.8 -101.1 Retail Sales MOM% 11/14 Oct. -1.2% -2.1% Retail ex-autos MOM% 11/14 Oct. -0.6% -1.2% Import Prices ...
NPR
November 9, 2008
Meanwhile, the spiraling costs of Medicare and Medicaid are threatening to swamp the federal budget.
NPR's Julie Rovner has been charting the course of this ...
Schenectady Gazette
November 9, 2008
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taxes in a federal budget of $2.66 trillion. Corporate taxes were only $320 billion. Washington doesn't have money, it essentially all comes from us. ...
