Deficit
7/23/2011 10:15 AM ET
NBC and CBS polls released earlier this week determined that a significant portion of the American public remain opposed to any increase in the nation's debt limit, but neither network has ...
7/19/2011 6:11 PM ET
Over the past 10 days, as the debt ceiling negotiations have seemingly stalled, network reporters and newspaper correspondents have repeatedly cast President Obama as striving for "very ...
6/28/2011 2:12 PM ET
In two weeks of news reports, only two economists were included by broadcast networks.
6/22/2011 2:42 PM ET
The Times finally finds a place to cut government spending. Michael Cooper: "[The resolution] was nonetheless a remarkable signal of both the nation's spreading war weariness and the lingering ...
6/9/2011 3:34 PM ET
'Tax Cuts Push Deficit to New Milestone' story ignores massive spending of the Obama administration.
1/17/2011 3:33 PM ET
Congressional Budget Office figures challenged only 16 percent of the time, despite former CBO director's claims of 'Garbage In, Garbage Out' accounting.
1/6/2011 8:31 PM ET
The New York Times' Congressional reporter claimed that rules proposed by the new Republican majority "would permit repeal of the health care legislation, which was estimated to save the ...
1/6/2011 2:51 PM ET
The paper's congressional reporter claims that rules proposed by the new Republican majority "would permit repeal of the health care legislation, which was estimated to save the government more ...
11/23/2010 2:30 PM ET
Paul Krugman's taking opposition to deficit spending quite hard: "It's hard to see how this situation is resolved without a major crisis of some kind. [Former Sen. Alan] Simpson may or may not get ...