#fiscal

Washington's answer to a self-inflicted financial crisis reminded Americans why they so deeply distrust the political class. The 'fiscal cliff' process was secretive and sloppy, and the nation's so-called leadership lacked the political courage to address our root problems: joblessness and debt. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#answer #class #cliff #courage #crisis

It's clear that the medium and long-run fiscal challenges facing the country have to do with the rise of entitlement spending, they have to do with the longer run imbalances that we've created in the structure of the system. ↗

— Austan Goolsbee

#clear #country #created #entitlement #facing

Every day things get better because politicians are addressing the fiscal challenges more aggressively. ↗

— Meredith Whitney

#aggressively #because #better #challenges #day

The more we can do to address fiscal austerity, the better our markets will do, and there is a real political shift to doing that. ↗

— Meredith Whitney

#austerity #better #doing #fiscal #markets

What will growth policy have to look like in a fiscally compacted Europe? Clearly any illusion of budget stimulated growth policy will have to go away. ↗

— Mario Monti

#away #budget #clearly #europe #fiscally

And so we go over the cliff fiscally, and our Republican friends try to pin the blame on discretionary domestic spending, including spending for security. We pass budget resolutions that fall far short. ↗

— David E. Price

#budget #cliff #discretionary #domestic #fall

Even in a time of fiscal austerity, education is more than just an expense. ↗

— Arne Duncan

#education #even #expense #fiscal #just

The idea seems to be to use the next treaty talks to strike a grand bargain: Britain will be helpful to those states wishing to establish a fiscal union among themselves if, in exchange, we can amicably derogate from the aspects of the EU which we dislike. ↗

— Daniel Hannan

#aspects #bargain #britain #dislike #establish

The budget does not adequately fund important domestic programs, promotes tax cuts to the detriment of other priorities and does little to put our nation's fiscal house in order. ↗

— Jim Jeffords

#budget #cuts #detriment #does #domestic

As the President reviewed the state of the union and unveiled his second-term agenda, he fell short of adequately explaining how he intends to set America back on the course of fiscal responsibility and secure the fiscal health of the nation. ↗

— Ron Kind

#agenda #america #back #course #explaining