A primary meme of the Democratic Party in 2013 is that the federal government doesn’t have a spending problem. That is what President Obama reportedly said to House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) in ...

The truth remains that the BCA caps were pretty effective at tying lawmakers' hands. When the act was passed, the Congressional Budget Office projected that the spending limits would save $971 billion ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: A version of this article first appeared at Forbes.com. A primary theme of the Democratic Party in 2013 is that the federal government doesn’t have a spending problem. That is what ...

As I read about the controlling Democrats’ recovery plans for more stimulus spending, more governmental (non-profit producing) jobs, ever more entitlements, I am struck by the willful blindness of ...

Our national debt is $20.5 trillion and heading to $30 trillion by 2030. You’d think that this would be a wake-up call for Republicans, who control all three branches of government, to finally take ...

How Andre Henemulla is getting on since taking part in Spendaholics.

That Republicans in Congress had abandoned all claims to being the party of fiscal conservatism became clear when they chose to attack Democrats' health care reform bills on the grounds they dared ...

I’m selecting a handful of graphics to put important economic and investing news into perspective. This week, I’m dishing on non-stop government spending, the importance of emerging markets and the ...

A recent survey conducted by the Shenzhen Special Zone Daily has shown that 36 percent of young people in the city use up their salary every month, and another 15 percent spend more than they earn and ...

BBC3 has commissioned a third helping of its hit series Spendaholics from indie Betty. In Spendaholics out-of-control shoppers are cut off from their credit cards and given help to change their ...

Former subjects are visited to see how they are getting on since appearing on Spendaholics ...