In light of Sleepy Joe’s swell new $1.9 trillion package of more free stuff, it’s time to get out our magnifying glasses again.

One of the most alarming things about the pandemic is how sheepish almost all of us have been in surrendering our freedoms to government. 

The Biden Administration will likely revisit the Tax Cuts & Jobs Act, the outgoing administration's signature legislative achievement enacted in 2017, to free up money for infrastructure and other priorities, analysts say.

The massive federal spending bill Congress passed this week has lots of spending for Illinois, just not to cover the state’s budget deficit.
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Springfield, said the $900 billion stimulus bill that passed Congress late Monday has a lot of spending, just not for state and local government budget deficits. But there are a lot of funds for government services like public schools and more.

As the 101st Illinois General Assembly’s lame-duck session came to a close, lawmakers rushed to send 23 bills to Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s desk – but not the one he wanted.

The effectiveness of fiscal rules in limiting governmental indebtedness and expenditures has mixed results.

Investors are hanging on to bonds that protect against inflation even as they sell other U.S. government debt, a sign many trust the Federal Reserve to hold interest rates steady even if the economy picks up steam.

President-elect Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion stimulus proposal has economists and bullish market analysts revising their U.S. growth expectations higher, predicting a reflation of the economy in 2021 and possibly more booming returns for risk assets.

At U.S. Treasury Secretary-designate Janet Yellen's confirmation hearing Tuesday she nodded to the need for the federal debt to be put on a "sustainable" path, at least eventually.

In reading the Ken de la Bastide article relating to the "National debt out of control" dated 12-26-2020, I want to point out that the ratio of national debt to population is not a proper barometer of the significance of the national debt.