Economic Report of the President [Kindle Edition]

Council of Economic Advisers (Author), Council of Economic Advisers (U.S.) (Compiler)

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The Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2011 contains the Budget Message of the President, information on the President’s priorities, budget overviews organized by agency, and summary tables. Analytical Perspectives, Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2011 contains analyses that are designed to highlight specified subject areas or provide other significant presentations of budget data that place the budget in perspective. This volume includes economic and accounting analyses; information on Federal receipts and collections; analyses of Federal spending; information on Federal borrowing and debt; baseline or current services estimates; and other technical presentations.

The full Budget and additional information related to the Office of Management and Budget is available at Budget.gov

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 10194 KB
• Print Length: 462 pages
• Publisher: The White House; New Edition, Annual edition (February 12, 2010)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B0038636QS
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,322 Free in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Free in Kindle Store)
  • #3 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Business & Investing > Economics > Economic Conditions

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70 of 75 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Required Reading, February 12, 2010

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Mattman (Northern Virginia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Economic Report of the President (Kindle Edition)

Simply put, the annual Economic Report of the President (ERP) should be required reading for every U.S. citizen, every year. The ERP provides a wealth of information and data about the nation's economic activity. This type of information is perhaps no more critical than in times of economic downturn. Want to know more about employment trends? Housing construction? Trends in investment? Perspectives on the stimulus and what it actually did? It's all in here. Don't trust it? Well, fact-check it against analyses from the CBO or GAO, or other impartial sources - but don't just discard it.

But, of course, the ERP is more than just pure economic information. It's also a political document, and often contains the clearest statement of priorities for whichever administration is issuing it outside the State of the Union - and this is important too, regardless of whether or not you agree with the White House's current occupant. Oppose Obama? Read this, grapple with it, and better define for yourself which parts of Obama's agenda you really don't like - or which parts can serve as common ground. Support Obama? Read this and make sure you know what it is you like about his policy preferences - and which parts of his agenda might not jive with your expectations.

I realize it's a long report, and I also realize a lot of this stuff might be difficult reading. I'd just encourage folks to do their best with it.

One of the advantages of living in a liberal market democracy is the availability of information; I think it's important not to under-appreciate this fact. And if you don't make use of the information available to you as a citizen to make informed choices about who to support, you're just not doing your job.

21 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An informed citizenry is vital to a successful democracy, February 12, 2010

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Peter Carpenter (Atherton, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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Thank you Amazon for making the Economic Report and the U.S. Budget available free to Kindle users.
These two documents are essential resources for any citizen who wants the facts, not opinions or spins, about our economy and our Federal government.

9 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is great, February 12, 2010

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James (ROANOKE, VA, United States) - See all my reviews
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What a great service. I love having access to a document like this that I likely would never have sought on my own.