Tuesday, July 21, 2009

"Quick Fixes" To Balance State Budgets

I wanted to briefly comment on this recent (July 17) Wall Street Journal article that mentions how Illinois and California are working to "balance" their budgets:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124776520979752661.html

The article brings to mind a term that I have used before, "quick fixes." Sadly, some of the means by which these budgets are apparently being balanced might not even meet the low threshold of a "quick fix."

Here is another article, from Forbes, with the subtitle, "Some of the games states are playing to plug vast holes in their budget deficits."

http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2009/0803/opinions-economy-state-budgets-heads-up.html

SPX at 954.45 as this post is written

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