Category: Federal Budget

279.   That’s the magic number.   That’s how many people have to approve of the debt ceiling bill for it to become law.   218 Representatives, 60 Senators, …

Well, there appears to be a deal on the debt ceiling impasse, and it looks like President Obama got the things he wanted most out of the deal. And …

Back in 2009, I finished my MBA work with a Strategic Management course, which ended the year with a Case Competition.  The target company was PetSmart, and my team …

He’s such a tool: Via NetRightDaily.

This is a local story gaining national attention… and rightly so: They are the two ships no one wanted, almost constantly embroiled in one dispute or another for the …

Mitch McConnell, expressing the kind of pessimism many of us in this country are feeling: Mr. McConnell, the Senate’s top Republican, said he had gone into negotiations in good …

Guest blogger Tom Flake over at my place is taking us back to reality: Here is the issue, we are still days away from reaching our national credit card …

Dennis Sevakis (via email) sends us to this post by a dude named Greenspun who cuts to the chase: The FY 2011 federal budget is approximately $3.82 trillion (3.82×10^12). …