Red Ink: Inside the High-Stakes Politics of the Federal Budget by David Wessel
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Morning Edition: A Portrait of a Country Awash in ‘Red Ink”
As the federal debt balloons, reducing it would seem more and more pressing. Yet policymakers remain far apart. Debt, deficit and budget rhetoric is often accompanied by numbers cherry-picked to support a particular political view.
But a new book by Wall Street Journal economics writer David Wessel lays out the numbers that both political parties face.
