Top Reads from the Fiscal Times

In the Obama White House, It’s Deficits as Far as the Eye Can See The Obama administration appears to have resigned itself to a federal government that runs deficits in perpetuity, something that has deficit hawks in despair as they read the president’s budget proposal for Fiscal 2016. The budget proposed by the… The Three Hidden Messages Behind ISIS’s Bloody Rampages ISIS is once again on a rampage. The terror group executed a second Japanese hostage this past weekend, took a minor oil field in Northern Iraq for a few days, stormed the… Pentagon’s ‘Too Big to Fail’ F-35 Gets Another $10.6 Billion Lockheed Martin's F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the most expensive weapons system in history, nearly crash-landed a few years ago under the weight of repeated delays and cost… Obama’s Budget: Good News for ISIS, Bad News for Taxpayers President Obama’s Budget proposal, to be released on Monday, confirms that a sweeping, bipartisan compromise to tame exploding federal debt is not on the White House agenda… Obama’s $4 Trillion Tax-the-Rich Budget Called ‘Envy Economics’ President Obama’s budget request may not exactly be a tax reform bill, but you could make an argument that it promotes tax reform through other means. Many of the elements…