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The latest U.S. jobs report should give fiscal hawks pause
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For the past few months comedian Stephen Colbert has been giving his viewers an education in campaign finance laws — how burdensome and convoluted they can be, and how they stifle political speech. The real joke, however …
Continue Reading »Q+A – Will post-election spending affect Thai fiscal, monetary policy?
BANGKOK – Thailand’s Puea Thai Party, which won a landslide election victory on Sunday, pledged a range of populist measures during its campaign, from wage increases to infrastructure projects to computers for school children.
Continue Reading »Fiscal discipline, restrictions on govt borrowing necessary to contain inflation: SBP
KARACHI : The State Bank of Pakistan has said that fiscal discipline and restrictions on Government borrowing from SBP are necessary to contain inflationary expectations, which have become ingrained in recent months, according to State Bank’s Third Quarterly Report on the State of Pakistan’s Economy for FY11 released today.
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Continue Reading »State ends fiscal year with $479 million surplus
DES MOINES, Iowa — State government ended fiscal 2011 on a positive financial note.
Continue Reading »Job, service cuts cloud dawn of Detroit fiscal year
Detroit — The city started its new fiscal year Friday amid the uncertainty over pending cuts to services and jobs in the wake of an 11th-hour agreement to restore $25 million to the budget.
Continue Reading »Revenue Department Releases Fiscal Year 2010-2011 Collections
HARRISBURG, Pa., July 1, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Pennsylvania collected $3.2 billion in General Fund revenue in June, which was $246.1 million, or 8.3 percent, more than anticipated, Secretary of Revenue Daniel Meuser reported today.
Continue Reading »Illinois governor signs budget but state’s problems mount
CHICAGO – Just hours before a new fiscal year was to begin, Illinois Governor Pat Quinn on Thursday signed a new state budget after vetoing $376 million in spending approved by the General Assembly.
Continue Reading »Gov. Quinn Signed Fiscal Year 2012 State Budget
Governor Pat Quinn has made the deadline in approving a new budget, but not before making some big changes.
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