Congress, not the president, decides on government spending − a constitutional law professor explains how the ‘power of the purse’ works
Congress has the authority to control government expenditures. Donald Trump is the latest president to try to get around that ...
These charts show you how big the federal budget is
The charts below are based on information from the Congressional Budget Office, which does nonpartisan analysis for Congress.
Ray Dalio: We Need to Cut the Budget Deficit Now. Here’s How We Do It
In Ray Dalio's forthcoming book "How Countries Go Broke" he argues that the United States' budget deficit should be cut.
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The adorable charts library for Golang.
If a language can be used to build web scrapers, it definitely needs to provide a graceful data visualization library. --- by dongdong. In the Golang ecosystem, there are not many choices for data ...
NIH Budget Cuts Are the ‘Apocalypse of American Science,’ Experts Say
T he U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the largest funder of biomedical research in the world, and its grants ...
The government is banking on tax cuts to boost consumption. What if it doesn’t pan out?
Cutting tax rates can promote growth, and conversely raising taxes can hinder it—the intellectual heritage of this line of thought stretches back to an 18th century economist. But this theory ...