Tag: Joseph Lawler

Republican presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio laid out his opposition to what tax experts call a "value-added tax," which is a form of consumption or sales tax. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Rubio takes aim at Cruz’s ‘anti-free market’ tax plan

Joseph Lawler · January 11, 2016 6:38 pm

President Obama will nominate University of Michigan economist Kathryn Dominguez to the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors. (AP Photo) Â

Fed paid $97.7 billion to Treasury in 2015

Joseph Lawler · January 11, 2016 6:25 pm

Janet Yellen, chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve, speaks during a news conference following a Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2015. (AP Photo)

GOP to Fed: Explain yourself

Joseph Lawler · January 11, 2016 5:01 am

Dan Kowalski lives at high speeds, whether crunching numbers or on the race track. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

The man who helped pass the GOP budget

Joseph Lawler · January 11, 2016 5:01 am

Republican presidential candidate, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush unveiled an aggressive plan on Friday to reform welfare policy. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Bush proposes moving welfare, food stamps to states

Joseph Lawler · January 8, 2016 8:59 pm

Keith Hall, director of the Congressional Budget Office. The CBO reported that the federal deficit increased through the first quarter of fiscal 2016 to $212 billion. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg)

Deficit rises to $212 billion

Joseph Lawler · January 8, 2016 7:49 pm

Short-term unemployment plumbed the lowest levels in a half-century in 2015

Short-term unemployment plumbed the lowest levels in a half-century in 2015

Joseph Lawler · January 8, 2016 3:46 pm

For months, U.S. employers have steadily added jobs even as global growth has flagged and financial markets have sunk. The jobs report for December on Friday may provide some hints of whether that trend can endure. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

Economy adds 292,000 jobs in December, unemployment ends year at 5 percent

Joseph Lawler · January 8, 2016 1:31 pm

Initial claims for state unemployment benefits fell 5,000 to land at 267,000 for the week that ended Dec. 19, the Labor Department said. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Jobless claims fall to 277,000 after steep rise to end 2015

Joseph Lawler · January 7, 2016 1:30 pm

Carson flat tax would be $5.6 trillion tax cut, create 5 million jobs

Joseph Lawler · January 6, 2016 8:32 pm

Chairwoman Janet Yellen and other Fed members have argued that low inflation is temporary. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Fed members raised rates despite being puzzled over low inflation

Joseph Lawler · January 6, 2016 7:46 pm

Stanley Fischer, vice chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, said Wednesday in comments indicating that recent market volatility could play into the central bank's plans the rest of the year. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg)

Uncertainty about economy has risen, Fed vice chair says

Joseph Lawler · January 6, 2016 2:26 pm