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Opinion: Liars, Damned Liars and Budget Directors

(Sept. 8) -- What is it about White House budget directors? Maybe it's the inevitable clash between the numbers they know are right and the politics they know are wrong. Now comes former Obama administration budget director Peter Orszag to whip the clothes off the budget emperor. In a New York Times op-ed this week,...

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05/23/12 Quotations from Alice Rivlin, by David Henderson Source: EconLog My last post was about Sidney Winter's talk at the Naval Postgraduate School on Monday.
05/08/12 Capsules: Ain't no Sunshine yet for docs; Rivlin on... Source: News-Medical.Net "CMS has announced that the agency will not require companies to collect transparency data before January 1, 2013. The new timeline is a delay from the original ... which required HHS to come up with final reporting procedures by October 1, 2011. Instead, draft regulations were released in December of 2011; during the following 60-day comment period, CMS was bombarded with more than 300 comments from stakeholders (Gold, 5/7).
05/07/12 This Week's Trifacta - May 7 Source: GOP.gov - House Republican Conference According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics , it takes job seekers 39.1 weeks on average to find a job.
05/07/12 Capsules: Ain't No Sunshine Yet For Docs; Rivlin On... Source: Kaiser Health News "CMS has announced that the agency will not require companies to collect transparency data before January 1, 2013. The new timeline is a delay from the original ... which required HHS to come up with final reporting procedures by October 1, 2011. Instead, draft regulations were released in December of 2011; during the following 60-day comment period, CMS was bombarded with more than 300 comments from stakeholders (Gold, 5/7).
05/05/12 Election May Not Help Curb Health Costs, Wonks Say Source: Revolution Health Whether Republicans or Democrats win control in the November elections, nothing will happen that will bring healthcare costs under control without a willingness to deal, healthcare policy experts agreed.