WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 (UPI) -- The U.S. House of Representatives Wednesday approved an $819 billion economic stimulus plan.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 (UPI) -- Fiscal irresponsibility is now a calamitous cycle that poses a bigger threat than al-Qaida and its plans to attack the United States with a weapon of mass destruction. David Walker, the Paul Revere of a total economic and financial collapse on the present course, says the United States has a fiscal cancer "that is growing within us."

WASHINGTON, July 8 (UPI) -- Some U.S. economists are warning that Sen. Barack Obama's proposed spending plan may be too ambitious and will not have the revenues to make it work.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 (UPI) -- U.S. analysts Monday said Bush administration proposals to send astronauts back to moon and on to Mars should be put on the budget chopping block.

WASHINGTON, May 19 (UPI) -- An unprecedented rise in the deficit and the impending pressure of a retiring baby-boom generation on Social Security and Medicare are leading the United States

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WASHINGTON, March 6 (UPI) -- War against Iraq will only aggravate the already fragile U.S. economy, a former Federal Reserve vice chairwoman cautioned Thursday.

WASHINGTON, March 6 (UPI) -- War against Iraq will only aggravate the already fragile U.S. economy, a former Federal Reserve vice chair cautioned Thursday. Alice Rivlin also said it was pre

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