Deborah Solomon

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Paul Ryan Has Obama to Thank for 10-Year Balanced Budget

Today's lunch between Paul Ryan and President Barack Obama raises lots of question including this one: Did the representative thank Obama for helping him balance the federal budget within 10 years?

March 7, 2013

March 7, 2013

OpinionDeborah Solomon

Paul Ryan Has Obama to Thank for 10-Year Balanced Budget

Today's lunch between Paul Ryan and President Barack Obama raises lots of question including this one: Did the representative thank Obama for helping him balance the federal budget within 10 years?

March 6, 2013

March 6, 2013

OpinionDeborah Solomon

Why Deficit-Cutting Is Good Rhetoric but Hard Reality

Cutting entitlement spending has real consequences that neither party seems ready to live with, at least not at the moment.

March 4, 2013

March 4, 2013

OpinionDeborah Solomon

Budget Cuts Put Republican Credo to the Test

Sequestration is by no means a welcome event, but it may serve at least one useful purpose: testing Republicans' theory that cutting government spending will jump-start economic growth.

March 1, 2013

March 1, 2013

OpinionDeborah Solomon

The Slow Bleed of Sequestration

You may not notice it at first, butÂ sequestration will undermine the chance for a robust economic recovery.

February 20, 2013

February 20, 2013

OpinionDeborah Solomon

How the Democrats Blew It on Raising Taxes

February 13, 2013

February 13, 2013

OpinionDeborah Solomon

Jack Lew Reveals Rich Taxpayers Will Be on the Hook

Deborah Solomon analyzes Treasury nominee Jack Lew's deficit reduction comments at his Senate confirmation hearing.

February 6, 2013

February 6, 2013

OpinionDeborah Solomon

Will Geithner's Book Be Tweet Revenge?

February 5, 2013

February 5, 2013

OpinionDeborah Solomon

Hidden Thorns in CBO's Rosy Deficit Report

January 31, 2013

January 31, 2013

OpinionDeborah Solomon

How Republican Governors Are Pretending to Cut Taxes

January 24, 2013

January 24, 2013

OpinionDeborah Solomon

Can Neel Kashkari Do for California What He Did for Wall Street?

November 7, 2012

November 7, 2012

OpinionDeborah Solomon

Elizabeth Warren, From Professor to Gadfly to Senator

October 28, 2012

October 28, 2012

OpinionDeborah Solomon

The Case for Heading Over the Fiscal Cliff

July 13, 2012

July 13, 2012

Neil Barofsky, the Democrat Taking Digs at Obama

Former Treasury official Neil Barofsky slams the administration

Neil Barofsky, the Democrat Taking Digs at Obama