deficit

CNBC spins right (and wrong) on the debt and deficit

The factually challenged network is at it again

November 8, 2013 By Ryan Chittum

The undercovered dark cloud in the shrinking-deficit story

May 30, 2013 By David Cay Johnston

Flurry of articles was welcome, but some cautionary notes deserved greater play

Audit Notes: Farm labor fight, government debt, dumb-question headlines

May 9, 2013 By Ryan Chittum

Americans sue to get farm jobs from Mexican guest workers

What’s on the chopping block?

February 12, 2013 By Trudy Lieberman

The great sequestration guessing game: What will Democrats surrender?

Talking back to Alan Simpson

May 31, 2012 By Trudy Lieberman

The press picks up on his latest salvo. More, please?

A Grand Bargain on entitlements?

May 29, 2012 By Trudy Lieberman

The press is sending signals about Simpson-Bowles. How about explaining it?

WaPo Shows Geithner Pushed Austerity

June 8, 2011 By Ryan Chittum

A profile reports the Treasury secretary steered Obama away from jobs focus

Uncivil Wars

April 19, 2011 By Joel Meares

The president should be more civil, whatever that means

Conservatives Get Colorful on Obama’s Deficit Speech

April 14, 2011 By Joel Meares

More subdued libs are mostly pleased

Audit Notes: Main Street Corp., The Do-Nothing Deficit Fix, Hugh Grant

April 13, 2011 By Ryan Chittum

Two Non-Plans for the Deficit

April 13, 2011 By Joel Meares

Slate and Times op-eds suggest Obama slack off

The Government’s Shutting Down (Maybe)

March 28, 2011 By Joel Meares

But what does that mean?

Another Take on NPR’s "Liberal Bias"

March 16, 2011 By Trudy Lieberman

Its reporting on Social Security is anything but

The NYT’s Incomplete Article on State Pension Plans

March 1, 2011 By Felix Salmon

Audit Notes: It’s Wall Street’s Deficit, Dimon Steps In It, Red-Faced Mortgage Bankers

February 3, 2011 By Ryan Chittum

Audit Notes: Baffled Wall Street Historians, Too Much Demand, Deficits to Shrink

January 27, 2011 By Ryan Chittum