How Will The US Government Pay The National Debt? – OpEd

Between August 8 and October 21, 2025, the U.S. government’s total public debt outstanding increased by more than $1 trillion, reaching

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Craig Eyermann

DOGE Disbanded – OpEd

The Trump administration’s highest visibility effort to reduce wasteful spending within the U.S. government is coming to an early end.

25.11.2025 2

Craig Eyermann

The Route To Happiness – OpEd

By Jonathan Power Sigmund Freud, the great psychiatrist, said that people can never be fully happy. But most people are

30.10.2025 5

Craig Eyermann

Feeding The US Government Leviathan’s Spending Frenzy – OpEd

The U.S. government’s 2025 fiscal year came to an end on September 30, 2025. During its fiscal year, the federal

30.10.2025 3

Craig Eyermann

Trump’s Assault On The UN Is Self-Defeating – OpEd

By Alon Ben-Meir It is hard to imagine that there is not a single adult in Trump’s orbit to tell

24.10.2025 2

Craig Eyermann

Will The Filibuster Become A Casualty Of The Shutdown? – OpEd

The U.S. government shut down on October 1, 2025, because Senate Democrats blocked a spending bill that would have kept

24.10.2025 2

Craig Eyermann

DOGE 2.0 Gets A Slow Start – OpEd

The shutdown of the U.S. government has been running for two weeks. Through much of this time, the Trump administration’s

21.10.2025 3

Craig Eyermann

The Unwanted Return Of US Government Shutdown Theater – OpEd

With the U.S. government’s fiscal year coming to an end on September 30, the next episode of Government Shutdown Theater

30.09.2025 2

Craig Eyermann

A Small But Real Victory For Fiscal Sanity – OpEd

In the weeks after Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election, Biden administration bureaucrats embedded at the Environmental Protection Agency

11.09.2025 3

Craig Eyermann

Voters And Markets: Good News From Bolivia – OpEd

By Marcos Falcone It happened in Argentina, and now it is happening in Bolivia. Across Latin America, expelling the left from

05.09.2025 4

Craig Eyermann

Pocket Rescission To Test Constitution – OpEd

Just before the 2025 Labor Day holiday weekend, President Trump announced he would seek to claw back $4.9 billion in foreign aid...

05.09.2025 5

Craig Eyermann

French-Saudi UN Initiative: Awakening The International Community – OpEd

By Alon Ben-Meir Hamas’ savage October 2023 attack and Israel’s horrific war of retaliation have reignited the call for a

29.07.2025 10

Craig Eyermann

Without Reforms, Big Social Security Cuts Coming In 2033 – OpEd

The doomsday date for Social Security benefits is coming in 2033. For years, the Social Security Administration’s Trustees have warned that the

29.07.2025 6

Craig Eyermann

Federal Funds Yanked From California’s Zombie Bullet Train Boondoggle – OpEd

The U.S. Department of Transportation officially terminated federal funding for California’s zombie bullet train boondoggle. The project...

24.07.2025 3

Craig Eyermann

John Brennan: A Tale Of Conceit, Corruption, And Communism – OpEd

By Tim Donner When it comes to John Brennan, the man who choreographed the phony investigation of Donald Trump’s ties

17.07.2025 5

Craig Eyermann

One Big Beautiful Bill Increases Need For Reduced Government Spending – OpEd

The One Big Beautiful Bill, championed by President Donald Trump, passed the U.S. Congress and was signed into law on July 4, 2025.

17.07.2025 3

Craig Eyermann

‘No Viable Path Forward’ For California’s Zombie Bullet Train – OpEd

California’s troubled high speed rail project may soon lose its federal funding. The project was sold to California voters in

17.06.2025 4

Craig Eyermann

What Is In The Rescissions Bill? – OpEd

Last week, President Trump officially requested that the U.S. Congress act to permanently rescind the funding previously approved for...

12.06.2025 7

Craig Eyermann

The Musk Era Of DOGE Ends – OpEd

The U.S. government’s most famous temp left their job on May 29, 2025. In exiting his job, he joined anywhere...

04.06.2025 5

Craig Eyermann

Too Big To Turn?: Moody’s Credit Rating Downgrade – OpEd

Imagine that you are the captain of a huge boat, like a modern container ship or even the legendary Titanic. You’re sailing forward at full

21.05.2025 3

Craig Eyermann

California’s Bullet Train To Take Longer To Go Nowhere – OpEd

Of all the government-spending boondoggles in history, California’s bullet train may be the most costly ever. That’s not news. In

14.05.2025 4

Craig Eyermann

After 100 Days Of DOGE – OpEd

How well is DOGE doing in reducing wasteful government spending 100 days after President Trump jump-started its efforts? The President renamed

09.05.2025 10

Craig Eyermann

BEAD Program And Bureaucratic Failure By Design – OpEd

How can the U.S. government spend billions to bring high speed internet service to digitally deprived Americans and have almost

23.04.2025 4

Craig Eyermann

The Cost Of Politicians And Bureaucrats Doing Business As Usual – OpEd

The Congressional Budget Office analyses the long-term impact of the U.S. government’s fiscal policies every year. Almost every year, the outlook

09.04.2025 7

Craig Eyermann

How Successful Is DOGE? – OpEd

President Barack Obama created the U.S. Digital Service in 2011. He proclaimed it would be vital in “getting rid of the pointless

26.03.2025 4

Craig Eyermann

Government Shutdown Theater Gets A New Plot – OpEd

The scheduled spring performance of government shutdown theater didn’t go as planned this year. The performance was set up just before Christmas...

21.03.2025 6

Craig Eyermann

Is NATO Prepared For Modern Drone Warfare? – OpEd

By Ahmed Adel NATO is not ready for modern drone warfare, a Ukrainian military commander warned, drawing attention to the

14.03.2025 8

Craig Eyermann

Bureaucrats Paying For Empty Buildings – OpEd

Washington, D.C.’s empty federal office buildings rank high among the most visible examples of wasteful government spending. Where...

14.03.2025 8

Craig Eyermann

What’s At Stake In The Budget Battle – OpEd

For the first time in years, the U.S. Congress is considering budget bills that could seriously rein in government spending

04.03.2025 3

Craig Eyermann

Bureaucrats Tossing Gold Bars Off The Titanic – OpEd

During its last four months in power, the Biden-Harris administration opened the U.S. government’s money spigots as wide as they...

21.02.2025 3

Craig Eyermann

To Bomb Or Not To Bomb Iran – OpEd

By Jonathan Power The talk is talk. Or will it walk? President Donald Trump has raised the stakes once again,

19.02.2025 4

Craig Eyermann

US Government’s Excessive Spending Scandal Grows Bigger – OpEd

Members of the Biden-Harris administration went on a massive spending bender during their final four months in office. By that,

19.02.2025 4

Craig Eyermann

Trump’s Campaign To Cut USAID May Have A Silver Lining – OpEd

By Kalinga Seneviratne Since President Donald Trump made the shock announcement last week of freezing United States’ (US) foreign aid

09.02.2025 5

Craig Eyermann

Righting Wrongs With The Stroke Of A Presidential Pen – OpEd

The pens of U.S. Presidents have extraordinary power. How much power they have can be seen in the short history

09.02.2025 10

Craig Eyermann

Bureaucrats Ordered To Go Back To Work – OpEd

The offices where Washington D.C.’s bureaucrats work were largely empty on Monday, January 20, 2025, as Donald Trump was inaugurated as U.S.

28.01.2025 5

Craig Eyermann

The Festivus Airing Of 2024’s Federal Spending Grievances – OpEd

If you were a fan of the Seinfeld television show in the 1990s or the reruns that still air and stream today, you know that Festivus is an...

08.01.2025 7

Craig Eyermann

The US Government’s Building Fiscal Crisis – OpEd

Government spending is going through the roof as the outgoing Biden-Harris administration cements its fiscal legacy of failure. That’s not an...

18.12.2024 5

Craig Eyermann

US National Debt Passes New Grim Milestone – OpEd

One week before Thanksgiving, the U.S. government’s total public debt outstanding surpassed $36 trillion for the first time ever. Just 118 days...

06.12.2024 5

Craig Eyermann

US Government Starts 2025 Fiscal Year Deep In The Red – OpEd

The U.S. government got off to a very bad start for its 2025 fiscal year. The U.S. Treasury Department reported that the federal government spent...

27.11.2024 3

Craig Eyermann

The Two-Trillion-Dollar Challenge – OpEd

There is an old proverb known as the “law of holes.” It goes something like this: “Let me tell you about the law of holes: If you find...

13.11.2024 2

Craig Eyermann

Scary National Debt Numbers – OpEd

Ready for a pre-Halloween scare? The U.S. government’s total public debt outstanding surpassed $35.465 trillion at the end of its 2024 fiscal...

30.10.2024 2

Craig Eyermann

Exploding Interest On US National Debt – OpEd

The final numbers for the U.S. government’s spending and revenues during its 2024 fiscal year have finally come in. From October 1, 2023, through...

23.10.2024 10

Craig Eyermann

Is Las Vegas Rethinking The Oakland A’s Gamble? – OpEd

There are some big signs that the people of Las Vegas and the state of Nevada are getting genuine buyer’s remorse over the Oakland Athletics. Last...

03.10.2024 5

Craig Eyermann

Pandemic Unemployment Fraud To Cost American Taxpayers More – OpEd

It’s a mistake to think the unemployment insurance fraud permitted during 2020’s pandemic has stopped imposing costs on its victims: American...

24.09.2024 2

Craig Eyermann

A Rare Government Spending Success Story – OpEd

Paying attention to government spending is often both a thankless and depressing task. What makes it that way are the horrible incentives that...

11.09.2024 3

Craig Eyermann

US Treasuries No Longer A Safe Haven – OpEd

U.S. Treasuries have functioned as a safe haven for investors during global turmoil for decades. Here’s Investopedia describes their role in...

03.09.2024 2

Craig Eyermann

CEOs Are Increasingly Concerned About The National Debt – OpEd

The total public debt outstanding of the U.S. government has grown by $7.4 trillion since the end of 2020. That’s causing a lot of concern for the...

23.08.2024 4

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