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GovMoneyNews -- September 30, 2026 (opens the original)
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Today’s “Top Three Reads” include an Axios article about how AI companies, investors and unions are banding together to lobby governments for their shared interests, an article in The American Prospect about the Protect College Sports Act titled “Union Busting Comes to Campus,” and an article in the Chicago Sun-Times exploring issues in Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle’s campaign funding from labor unions.This daily newsletter gathers news and opinion about government finance and fin
GovMoneyNews -- September 29, 2026 (opens the original)
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Today’s “Top Three Reads” include a CBO study of the large and rapidly rising military personnel costs borne outside the Defense Department’s budget, a Washington Post article arguing that strategy should drive U.S. Navy budget decisions rather than the other way around, and an AIER article questioning whether federal fiscal unsustainability could be addressed in part by ending “military welfare abroad.”This daily newsletter gathers news and opinion about government finance and financial markets
GovMoneyNews -- September 28, 2026 (opens the original)
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Today’s “Top Three Reads” include a Washington Post editorial warning that America is running out of “fiscal space,” a Taxpayers for Common Sense piece supporting a bipartisan fiscal commission, and a Council on Foreign Relations analysis asking whether the United States can “grow our way” out of its debt problem. Together, they raise interesting questions as a federal deficit of 3% of GDP is increasingly being presented as a measure of fiscal responsibility. With 3% of GDP now amounting to more
GovMoneyNews -- September 25, 2026 (opens the original)
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Today’s “Top Three Reads” examine a bipartisan proposal to create a new federal tax credit for film and television production. The New York Times and Washington Examiner report on the effort to counter foreign subsidies and keep production in the United States, while Reason questions whether adding a federal subsidy to the already extensive system of state film incentives makes economic sense. Below, we also look at Illinois’ recently expanded film tax credit—and, from the vaults, the much older
GovMoneyNews -- September 24, 2026 (opens the original)
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Today’s “Top Three Reads” include an article in The Hill about a new GAO report about the costs of implementing policies led by the Department of Government Efficiency, an article at Jacobin titled “Socialists Should be Champions of Government Efficiency,” and an article at First Trust Portfolios effectively questioning whether socialism and government efficiency can coexist. See also “FROM THE VAULTS” below for a critical review of socialism that was penned in 1912. This daily newsletter gather
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