I’m not sure how much I have to add to this. Frankly I’m going to let Google’s new Public Data Explorer do all the work.
Their new program creates interactive maps and charts that really put things in perspective. One of their examples shows unemployment gains and losses since January 1990 using data from the U.S. [...]

By: Mark Tapscott
Washington Examiner
Editorial Page Editor

President Obama has promised to make the federal government more transparent to citizens than it has ever before been, and his administration has launched a number of initiatives in the executive branch designed to achieve that goal.
How is the Obama administration doing on this score? Changing the way the federal [...]

By: Mark Tapscott
Editorial Page Editor
So, you say you just read something about TARP on a blog or heard it on a Talk Radio program that made your blood boil? Or you had a incredible brainstorm while driving to work this morning on how to make the Treasury Department work better? Maybe you just want to [...]

Rick Brundrett

The Nerve

A state incentives agreement for Boeing Co. to build a new assembly plant in North Charleston gives the aerospace giant a financial soft landing if it doesn’t meet job-creation targets.

The 20-year deal also gives the Chicago-based company plenty of latitude in counting new jobs and extending deadlines, and doesn’t require [...]

The Nerve

You’d think it would be hard to miss $7 billion.

But S.C. lawmakers have been doing just that for years when it comes to a large part of the state budget known as “other funds.”

The other funds category, which makes up at least one third of the state’s approximate $20 billion total [...]