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    Apr 30, 2013 |Column| Baltimore Sun

  1. Why is the Pentagon exempted from scrutiny?

    The most common complaint from people who email me about my columns is that the federal government is horrible: Too big and growing too fast, too corrupt and wasteful, and providing too many benefits to too many Americans. If we just shrink the government, they claim, the economy will boom.
    The most common complaint from people who email me about my columns is that the federal government is horrible: Too big and growing too fast, too corrupt and wasteful, and providing too many benefits to too many Americans. If we just shrink the...

    Tags: Political Corruption, Defense, Labor Legislation, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Public Employees

    2. Apr 29, 2013 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  2. Some college students could pay higher interest rate on federal loans

    College students taking out subsidized federal student loans will see their interest rate double in July unless Congress comes to the rescue.
    College students taking out subsidized federal student loans will see their interest rate double in July unless Congress comes to the rescue. The rate on subsidized Stafford loans is a fixed 3.4 percent, but that's set to expire and revert to 6.8 percent...

    Tags: Finance, Students, Financial Aid, Tom Coburn, Teaching and Learning

    3. Apr 24, 2013 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  3. The economic elephant in the room: widening inequality

    Four years into a so-called recovery, and we're still below recession levels in every important respect except the stock market.
    Four years into a so-called recovery, and we're still below recession levels in every important respect except the stock market. A measly 88,000 jobs were created in March, and total employment remains some 3 million below its pre-recession level....

    Tags: George W. Bush, University of California, Berkeley, Finance, Economic Policy, Economy

    4. Apr 4, 2013 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  4. Replace the sequester before it's too late

    Over the past six years, Maryland has taken a balanced approach when it comes to fiscal policy — making responsible cuts to spending while prioritizing investments in jobs, opportunity, and a stronger middle class. Because of this balanced approach, we're on the verge of eliminating Maryland's long-standing structural deficit, we have achieved the No. 1 public schools in the country for five years in a row, and since 2007, we've done more than any other state in the nation to hold down the cost of college tuition.
    Over the past six years, Maryland has taken a balanced approach when it comes to fiscal policy — making responsible cuts to spending while prioritizing investments in jobs, opportunity, and a stronger middle class. Because of this balanced approach,...

    Tags: Head Start, Christopher Van Hollen Jr., Layoffs and Downsizing, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Labor Markets

    5. Apr 7, 2013 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  5. Where's the beef in the budget cuts Gov. O'Malley keeps talking about?

    Once again our beloved governor is crowing about his responsible spending cuts while in office.
    Once again our beloved governor is crowing about his responsible spending cuts while in office. In a recent opinion piece for The Sun, he wrote that over the last six years "Maryland has taken a balanced approach when it comes to fiscal policy —...

    Tags: Government, Executive Branch, Regional Authority

    6. Apr 3, 2013 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  6. Lawmakers raise concerns about O'Malley proposal to fund Towson baseball

    Gov. Martin O'Malley's plan to allocate $300,000 in taxpayer money to save Towson University's baseball team came under fire Wednesday from some legislators and key fiscal policymakers for being unprecedented and unfair to other college sports programs.
    Gov. Martin O'Malley's plan to allocate $300,000 in taxpayer money to save Towson University's baseball team came under fire Wednesday from some legislators and key fiscal policymakers for being unprecedented and unfair to other college sports programs....

    Tags: House Building, Edward J Kasemeyer, Finance, Executive Branch, Maryland Terrapins

    7. Apr 3, 2013 |Column| Baltimore Sun

  7. Towson baseball coach relieved his team may have another chance

    Mike Gottlieb feels like the Death Row inmate who gets a last-minute reprieve from the governor.
    Mike Gottlieb feels like the Death Row inmate who gets a last-minute reprieve from the governor. Only in this case, the governor came up with $300,000 out of the state budget to keep Gottlieb's Towson University baseball team alive for a couple more...

    Tags: Government, Martin O'Malley, Executive Branch, Regional Authority, Budgets and Budgeting

    8. Mar 15, 2013 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  8. Low interest rates have hurt retirees

    A lifelong Democrat, I now find myself taking issue with the Obama administration in general and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke in particular as it pertains to current Fed policy. What seemed to have been a good idea at the onset, to keep interest rates low to stimulate the economy, has been counterproductive and harmful to many of us who need help the most, the retired, the elderly and the poor. The funds this group depends on come mostly from savings. This was the way many of us were directed over time by the prevailing wisdom on how to prepare for the future. The future is here but any growth we anticipated in our savings has all but disappeared.
    A lifelong Democrat, I now find myself taking issue with the Obama administration in general and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke in particular as it pertains to current Fed policy. What seemed to have been a good idea at the onset, to keep...

    Tags: Ben Bernanke, Finance, Federal Reserve

    9. Mar 13, 2013 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  9. Why there's a bull market for investors and a bear market for workers

    Last Friday, the Labor Department reported that 236,000 new jobs were created in February. That's good news -- but not nearly good enough. Even if this rate were to continue, which seems unlikely, the United States wouldn't be back to pre-recession levels of unemployment for another four years.
    Last Friday, the Labor Department reported that 236,000 new jobs were created in February. That's good news -- but not nearly good enough. Even if this rate were to continue, which seems unlikely, the United States wouldn't be back to pre-recession levels...

    Tags: Unemployment Benefits, Unemployment, Global Expansion, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Labor Markets

    10. Mar 11, 2013 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  10. Mismanaged Maryland

    There is a sharp disconnect between the image and reality of the O'Malley administration's fiscal policies. The image features pension reforms, reduced structural deficits, a rainy day fund, and protection of programs. The reality includes deferred maintenance, transfer of costs to local governments, "Medicaid cuts" that shift costs to hospitals and the privately insured, revenue bond financing for core functions, failure to curb pensions and health benefits, raids on open space and Injured Workers' Insurance Fund revenues, over-reliance on gambling (both literally and within the state's pension funds), and set-asides for public employee and construction unions and politically engaged businesses and investment bankers — payoffs funded by kicking the can down the road.
    There is a sharp disconnect between the image and reality of the O'Malley administration's fiscal policies. The image features pension reforms, reduced structural deficits, a rainy day fund, and protection of programs. The reality includes deferred...

    Tags: Interior Policy, Warren Buffett, Annapolis, Michael Bloomberg, Finance

    11. Mar 8, 2013 |Story| Patuxent Homestead

  11. Howard County maintains AAA bond rating

    Howard County has maintained its AAA credit rating from all three bond ratings agencies after one agency had warned the county might lose its superior standing because of uncertainty with the federal government.
    Howard County has maintained its AAA credit rating from all three bond ratings agencies after one agency had warned the county might lose its superior standing because of uncertainty with the federal government. Howard County was one of 38 counties...

    Tags: Credit Ratings, Manufacturing and Engineering, Finance, Moody's Corporation, Ken Ulman

    12. Mar 6, 2013 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  12. Dow is up: Happy days here again?

    Economist John Kenneth Galbraith once observed that there are two kinds of market forecasters, those who don't know and those who don't know they don't know. That is well illustrated by the current disconnect between Wall Street and Main Street, as the market's leading indicator, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, continues to surge forward while the overall outlook for the U.S. economy appears mixed at best.
    Economist John Kenneth Galbraith once observed that there are two kinds of market forecasters, those who don't know and those who don't know they don't know. That is well illustrated by the current disconnect between Wall Street and Main Street, as the...

    Tags: Investments, Charlie Brown (fictional character), Budget Control Act of 2011, Barack Obama, Dow Jones Industrial Average

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