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Getting out of the budget and debt morass
By PETER MORICI, UPI Outside View Commentator
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Oct. 4 (UPI) -- The U.S. government shutdown is proving less draconian than presidential warnings but failing to raise the debt ceiling and default would be another matter.
By PETER MORICI, UPI Outside View Commentator
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Oct. 2 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama, as much as House Republicans, shut down the federal government. He isn't willing to compromise on just about any issue, leaving the GOP with no other options.
First Obamacare, then a single-payer system
By PETER MORICI, UPI Outside View Commentator
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Sept. 27 (UPI) -- Republicans must live with Obamacare.
Republicans childish on budget, Obamacare
By PETER MORICI, UPI Outside View Commentator
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Sept. 24 (UPI) -- House Republicans are behaving like children threatening to shut down the U.S. government, especially when they have better options to move their agenda.
By PETER MORICI, UPI Outside View Commentator
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Sept. 20 (UPI) -- Easy money is a painkiller, not a cure.
By PETER MORICI, UPI Outside View Commentator
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Sept. 17 (UPI) -- Income inequality has been growing since the 1970s but U.S. President Barack Obama's economic policies are making it worse and much faster than Presidents George W. Bush or Bill Clinton.
Obama on Syria, another 'F' in management
By PETER MORICI, UPI Outside View Commentator
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Sept. 10 (UPI) -- Russia's ploy to defuse the Syrian crisis will likely end in an embarrassment for U.S. President Barack Obama and diminish already declining U.S. prestige.
By PETER MORICI, UPI Outside View Commentator
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Sept. 6 (UPI) -- More U.S. job creation require trimming back on tax increases and spending cuts and more realistic and less-ideological trade, energy and regulatory policies.
By PETER MORICI, UPI Outside View Commentator
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Sept. 5 (UPI) -- Forecasters expect the U.S. Labor Department to report the U.S. economy added 175,000 jobs in August and the unemployment rate remained steady at 7.4 percent.
Hesitation on Syrian strike threatens economic recovery
By PETER MORICI, UPI Outside View Commentator
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Sept. 4 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama's vacillation on Syria -- delaying military action and booting the decision to Congress -- poses grave threats to U.S. prosperity.
By PETER MORICI, UPI Outside View Commentator
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Aug. 29 (UPI) -- U.S. gross domestic product growth was revised up for the second quarter to 2.5 percent from 1.7 percent because the trade deficit was much smaller than originally estimated and investments in inventory were revised upward.
Tough choices behind Obama's mortgage initiative
By PETER MORICI, UPI Outside View Commentator
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Aug. 9 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama wants private banks to use depositor and investor funds to write 30-year, fixed-rate mortgages at affordable rates. He won't admit those goals and others imposed by Congress require the federal government to guarantee mortgages and banks against failure.
By PETER MORICI, UPI Outside View Commentator
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Aug. 5 (UPI) -- The U.S. Commerce Department is expected Tuesday to report the June deficit on international trade in goods and services was $43 billion.
By PETER MORICI, UPI Outside View Commentator
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Aug. 5 (UPI) -- Republicans are from Venus and U.S. President Barack Obama is from Mars. Nothing better demonstrates this than their stances on taxes, spending and jobs.
By PETER MORICI, UPI Outside View Commentator
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Aug. 1 (UPI) -- Forecasters expect the U.S. Labor Department will report Friday the U.S. economy added 175,000 jobs in July, down from 195,000 in June, and the unemployment rate will slip a notch to 7.5 percent.
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Former U.S. President George W. Bush (C) points to the crowd as he stands on the first tee box at the 2013 Presidents Cup at Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio on October 3, 2013. UPI/Brian Kersey