If the deficit hawks are "really concerned about our children's future", they should focus on the over-valued dollar

Washington policy-makers say the deficit is the greatest threat to the US economy. In reality, it's the failure of banking reform

The effort to blame the awful plight of the young on Social Security and Medicare is picking up steam

The US government has a huge amount of assets that it could sell at any time and thereby reduce its debt

Economist Larry Summers is presumably not the only "expert" who crafts a message to please the sponsors

Four years after Obama's historic inauguration, the biggest change is that there is no hope for the economy

If Abe manages to restore Japan to a healthy growth path perhaps it will put an end to austerity economics in the US

Republicans were trying to buy off police unions and firefighters’ unions with special favors, not singling them out for punishment

Deficit hawks rely on media allies to report budget doom to advance their agenda of cutting Medicare and social security

Missing the January deadline simply means those who want to preserve Bush tax cuts for the super-rich lose political leverage

What we really need is something to replace the demand created by the housing bubble

Worry about the grandchildren? Then stop global warming, but don't pretend deficit reduction by slashing pensions is for them

Both candidates agree: The national debt is the most urgent challenge facing the nation. But it's not -- at all

One of the major growth industries in Washington is the promotion of budget hysteria

In elite Washington circles the willingness to cut Social Security is taken as evidence of courage

The amount of damage being inflicted on countries around the world by bad economic policy is astounding

Is it possible that many of the world's leading economists are completely missing the boat in their understanding of the way in which the debt poses a burden on the economy?

Two-thirds of parents supported the Chicago school teachers' protest in spite of the inconvenience caused by the strike

No wonder the deficit commission's report ignored calls for a Tobin tax when its co-author is a corporate finance insider

The TPP is an effort to use the holy grail of free trade to impose conditions and override domestic laws in a way that would be almost impossible using normal legislative process

An inefficient health care system is costing $1.2 trillion, but many economists want to fix the budget by slashing it

The IMF and Germany don't want Greece to know the truth – that a euro exit might lead to a stronger economy, not ruin

It should not be too much to expect that workers today should get at least as much as they did 45 years ago

Central banks and governments should focus on deflating bubbles before they grow large enough to be dangerous

There is a solution to unemployment: if we worked the same shorter hours as Germany, we'd eliminate joblessness overnight

The fact that Republican claims of massive regulatory burdens are so out of line with reality should be a cause of ridicule

It is astounding how liberals are so happy to work for the right by implying that conservatives somehow just want to leave markets to themselves whereas

The idea that we should be troubled by the prospect of a stagnant or declining population is almost laughable

In the view of Samuelson and the Post, a dollar that is in the pocket of low or middle class people is a dollar that could be in the pocket of the rich

The unusually good weather this winter meant that we did not see the falloff in employment and growth that we would ordinarily expect