S&P Rating: How to Get Back to AAA
August 8, 2011 President Obama and lawmakers should seize the opportunity to start making real changes to reduce the debt. Maya MacGuineasAugust 8, 2011Oh, AAA credit rating -- we never knew how much...
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Drawing a AAA-Road Map for Post-Downgrade America
August 11, 2011 The country's most critical structural problem isn't employment or entitlements. It's Washington. And its window to govern by leadership rather than crisis is getting narrower every...
View ArticleA Cultural Civics Lesson
September 5, 2011Gregory RodriguezSeptember 5, 2011Politics is making Americans dumb and mean. It's turning a generous, forward-thinking people into glib, defensive, narrow-minded bores.Pundits tell us...
View ArticleSupercommittee Needs to Go Bigger
September 7, 2011Maya MacGuineasSeptember 7, 2011With the president’s highly touted jobs speech this week, national attention is about to pivot from deficits and debt — where the focus has been for...
View ArticleHow to Pay For the Payroll Tax Cut
December 12, 2011 A solution to pay for $300 billion of stimulus that doesn't include the words "tax hike" or "spending cut"Marc GoldweinDecember 12, 2011It's become a Christmas tradition for Congress...
View ArticleUS Must Address Its Balance Sheet
April 17, 2012Marc GoldweinJason PeuquetApril 17, 2012It is fitting, and perhaps ironic, that today is both Tax Day and Financial Literacy Day. Taxes and finances are intimately intertwined, and as the...
View ArticleWe Can Beat the Debt Crisis
April 18, 2012Maya MacGuineasApril 18, 2012This morning, a bipartisan group of political leaders and policy experts will be sitting down in Roanoke to answer what may be the greatest challenge to the...
View ArticleMake Candidates Debate the Debt
April 27, 2012Maya MacGuineasApril 27, 2012It's not news that the national debt presents a daunting challenge. The public debt is growing faster than the economy, a trend that cannot be sustained.Even...
View Article'Fix the Debt' Campaign Comes to Idaho
August 16, 2012Maya MacGuineasAugust 16, 2012With the election season moving into higher gear and a “fiscal cliff” on the economic horizon, the American public will be hearing more and more about the...
View ArticleRoom For Debate: "Is the Deficit Urgent, or a Distraction?"
August 30, 2012 A Problem Too Big for Small Solutions. Maya MacGuineasAugust 30, 2012The federal debt is the nation’s most pressing economic problem because our dangerously high debt levels are a...
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