fiscal

Thinking about the federal budget deficit and the national debt – now closing in on $13 trillion dollars – is usually a somewhat cerebral pursuit.

There are 61.9 trillion reasons why college students should have a burning interest in the federal budget deficit and national debt, but how do you get them thinking ab

The idea of a bipartisan commission to draft a plan to get the federal budget on a sound footing has been embraced by President Obama and Congressional leaders, and will likely be a major point in next week's State of the Union speech.

One of the biggest problems in getting Americans engaged on the nation's fiscal challenges is that the problem is so hard for most people to get their arms around. The numbers are so huge, the issues so arcane and the problems so daunting that people may get angry about it, but have no idea how to grab onto it.

With the discussion primarily focused on both the Democratic and the Republican national conventions, the blogosphere has been quite distracted. With that said, we were still able to dig up some interesting discussion about issues related the federal budget:

Balanced Budget Amendment: Create an amendment that would eventually require that no entitlement spending, discretionary spending, and payment on the interest, in any given two year period (1st and 2nd session of Congress), should excide inlays during that same period.