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Thursday, August 20, 2009

Smaller Deficit Still Sets Record


“A stabilizing U.S. financial sector may have freed the White House to trim its 2009 budget deficit projection but the still-record-breaking figure will not make it easier to sell healthcare reform.” (Reuters, Thursday)

The Red Sea.

FEE Timely Classic
“The Politics of Deficit Spending” by Hans F. Sennholz


  • Sheldon Richman is the former editor of The Freeman and a contributor to The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics. He is the author of Separating School and State: How to Liberate America's Families and thousands of articles.