In Restoring Fiscal Sanity, scholars with high-level government experience provide an overview of the country?s likely medium- and long-term spending needs and the resources available to pay for them. They propose three alternative fiscal paths thatare more responsible than the current path....

In recent years American\'s political system has not performed as well as its economic system. While the strong economy of the past decade should provide policy makers with the opportunity to move forward on long-term social and economic goals, they seem stuck in the mindset of short-term fixes and shrill oratory common to leaner times....