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Financial reform and budget cuts often induce the government to get creative. Making the best of resources and doing more for less become pivotal when performance and taxpayer confidence is on the line, but how government goes about that can have mixed results, according to TARP regulatory observer Amy Poster and Deloitte government analyst, Bill Eggers (pictured.)

Both experts weighed in on the latest episode of the Federal Spending webcast late last month during which host Eric Kavanagh tackled two diverse expense categories that share at least one common thread: financial significance. Keep reading →


A new program called Federal Spending made its debut on Thursday, July 16. Produced by Inside Analysis in conjunction with Breaking Gov, this apolitical show has a formidable aim: tracking the path of federal dollars. The inaugural episode offered valuable insight into the expenditures of the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP) and a newly-mandated federal regulatory agency.

Before any current spending trends were discussed, Robin Bloor, Founder and CEO of The Bloor Group, presented a brief overview of federal spending in relation to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). “You would think that just by leveraging taxes upon the GDP that the government would have a lot more money to spend,” said Bloor. The discrepancy between expenditures and income, however, explains why the US debt is over 100% of the GDP. Keep reading →