Aaryman Vijaywargi·Nov 1Hold Your Horses: Is “Welfare” Really What’s Eating the Budget?Many believe the federal government is in dire fiscal straits due to overspending on welfare. In 2024, an op-ed published in the Wall…A response icon2A response icon2
Apowers·Oct 29The Federal Budget: Let’s Talk About It.If Wall Street Journal opinion editors tell you that welfare spending is taking up too much of the federal budget and people earning…
Market Brief·Oct 24$1.36 Trillion: The Interest Bill That’s Now Bigger Than the Pentagon’s BudgetFor the first time on record, the U.S. government spent more paying interest on its old debts than it spent on its entire military. In the…
Boyo Popov·Oct 9America Can Afford Its Debt. It Cannot Afford Endless DenialAmerica’s debt problem is becoming harder to dismiss for a simple reason: the country keeps borrowing heavily even when the economy is…
Market Brief·Sep 26123 Days: How Much of the Past Year the U.S. Government Was Actually Shut DownIn the first three days of September 2026, President Trump signed a bill funding the federal government through December 11. That’s a…
David Tyler·May 13The Budget That Will Not Save YouMany years later, as he faced the press gallery, “Lucky” Jim Chalmers would remember that distant afternoon when his father first explained…
Michael Ettlinger·Mar 31How to Make The Rich and Corporations Pay for the Cost of This War[Re-posted here from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy]
InIssueVoterbygracekbishop·Mar 27The U.S. Defense Budget: How Federal Spending Shapes Military Power and National SecurityAn examination of how the federal budget adapts to emerging global conflicts and changing domestic political priorities.
Ricky Howard, Lt Col (Ret)·Feb 19How Federal Money Actually Works (From a Former DoD Officer)Register for the LIVE GovClose Workshop! Houston TX 25 March 2025 https://www.govclose.com/workshop
Kim Bellard·Jan 12It’s Only a Subsidy If You’re PoorEven though most ACA enrollees/would-be enrollees have made their 2026 enrollment decisions assuming the expanded premium subsidies are not…
