Financial Times

Maya MacGuineas, who heads a fiscally conservative think-tank, said: “It is a great idea that needs to be strengthened given the many constituencies that ...

"If progress is defined as Republican support, then right now it's a fool's errand," said Len Nichols, a fellow at the centrist New America Foundation. ...

The last quarter of the 19th century witnessed a period of sustained global deflation. In the 1896 US presidential election, William Jennings Bryan famously attacked the gold standard as the cause of deflation, declaring “You shall not press upon the brow of labour this crown of thorns. You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.” Today, euroland is being crucified upon its own cross of gold that is the institutional arrangements behind the euro. Those arrangements have distorted the monetary - fiscal balance, creating deflationary central bank dominance.

Steven Hill admires a great deal about Europe. Road speed humps, high-speed trains, wind turbines, siestas, works councils, two-button flush ...

In Grand New Party, Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam argue that the future of the Republicans lies in addressing what they describe as growing trepidation ...

"There's a sense that the administration overestimated Russia's eagerness for a deal," said Jeffrey Lewis, a nuclear expert at the New America Foundation ...

Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, said “the 3.9 per cent number is a bad number, but it is not unrealistic” ...

... it is an election year but we cannot continue to delay,” says Maya MacGuineas, director of the bipartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. ...

The savings from such a freeze will be relatively modest –- reducing the $12400bn in accumulated government deficits over the next decade by only $250bn, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. ...

According to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, on reasonable assumptions US government deficits will total $12400bn over the next decade with ...