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The Atlantic's Megan McArdle says the best budget deals have generally had bipartisan support. Why? "If one party tries to do things all their own way, well, the other party will promptly be elected to undo some of those changes. ...

... of demand on their networks, and that asymmetry leads to things like bill shock," Sascha Meinrath, at the New America Foundation, told the Post. ...

"The administration made a calculated decision," says Ellen Seidman, former Director of the Office of Thrift Supervision and senior fellow at The New ...

..."The U.S. was always No. 1 and assumed it would be No. 1 and acted accordingly," says Doug Rediker, a former investment banker and a co-director of the Global Strategic Finance Initiative at the New America Foundation, a Washington, D.C., think tank. "Now other nations are catching up. There are competitors fighting for market share in every industry. The U.S. is under pressure..." LINK