The rapid spread of coronavirus (Covid‐19) is focusing attention on the health agencies that are helping to fight the pandemic.

Politicians love infrastructure, but many local government projects seem awfully wasteful.

President Trump came into office promising spending cuts and debt reduction, but so far he has delivered the opposite.

President Trump’s new budget projects that federal spending will rise to $4.83 trillion in fiscal year 2021. When Trump came into office in 2017, spending was $3.98 trillion. In just four years under this president, spending will be up $850 billion, or 21 percent.

The Trump administration has released its budget for fiscal year 2021. In the face of huge deficits, the budget proposes numerous reforms to discretionary and entitlement spending and foresees the budget eventually balancing by 2035.

I grabbed a book off my shelf the other day that I had not read in years. The English Libertarian Heritage is a sampling of essays written three centuries ago by John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon.

The Congressional Budget Office has released new projections for federal spending and revenues through to 2030.

Looks like another federally backed solar energy plant has gone bust.

I reported that state and local governments in New York spend twice as much as governments in Florida. New York also has a larger bureaucracy.

Recent articles in respected business journals report that Amtrak lost only $29.8 million in 2019 (out of $3.3 billion in total revenues) and that it expects to make a profit in 2020.