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The CRFB Medium and Long-Term Baselines
The CRFB Medium and Long-Term Baselines

 

Recently, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its updated Budget and Economic Outlook. which provides their latest baseline projections for the coming decade. CRFB’s Realistic Baseline aims to offer a more probable fiscal outlook for both the medium- and long-term.

 

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CNBC Interview with CRFB President at Jackson Hole
CNBC Interview with CRFB President at Jackson Hole

 

At the Federal Reserve meetings in Jackson Hole, this week, CRFB President Maya MacGuineas discussed fiscal policy on CNBC. MacGuineas argued for the need for a credible medium- and long-term debt reduction plan.

 

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Analysis of the 2010 Medicare Trustees Report
Analysis of the 2010 Medicare Trustees Report

 

Social Security and Medicare Trustees released their 2010 reports on the financial status of both programs. CRFB has released the analysis of the 2010 Medicare Trustees Report.  

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Reports

August 26, 2010
The CRFB Medium and Long-Term Baselines
August 9, 2010
The 2010 Medicare Trustees Report
August 9, 2010
Op-Ed: The $2.5 trillion Slush Fund
August 6, 2010
Analysis of the 2010 Social Security Trustees Report
July 29, 2010
Maya MacGuineas's Testimony Before the Fiscal Commission
July 29, 2010
Barry Anderson's Testimony Before the Fiscal Commission
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Press Releases

August 5, 2010
CRFB Reacts to Trustees Reports
July 23, 2010
Mid-Session Review Shows Unsustainable Path
June 30, 2010
CRFB Reacts to CBO's Long Term Outlook
May 19, 2010
Congress May Not Produce a Budget, But You Can
May 18, 2010
No Budget, No Plan, No Accountability...No More
May 6, 2010
CRFB Holds Fortuitous Conference on Fiscal Crisis Scenarios
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CRFB's Blog: The Bottom Line

September 1, 2010
Raising False Alarms Over Raising the Retirement Age

Many are sounding alarms over news that the White House fiscal commission is considering changes to Social Security as a part of a possible debt reduction proposal. Progressive members of Congress are demanding that Social Security be taken off the table. At the same time the commission is being similarly pressured from the right to take tax increases off the table.

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September 1, 2010
FDIC Report Shows Improvement in Banks

The FDIC has just released its Quarterly Banking Profile (QBP) for the second quarter of 2010, showing improvement in bank balance sheets since last quarter and at the same point last year. 

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August 31, 2010
MY VIEW: Gene Steuerle

Lowering the Heat Around Raising Retirement Age

In the following op-ed for the San Francisco Chronicle on Friday, August 27, I tackle five of the myths surrounding an increase in the retirement age—including claims that it would be regressive and that the elderly have anything to fear from Social Security reform. Although not the subject of this article, reform should also aim to improve benefits on average for low- and moderate-income retirees, as well as for those who are older and frailer.

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Stabilize the U.S. Debt: An Online Exercise in Hard Choices

May 19, 2010
As Congress Sidesteps Budget, You Can Step In

CRFB encourages you to check out our budget simulator: Stabilize the Debt!

It's no secret that America's finances are a mess. The problem of our mounting debt can't be solved overnight, but we need to start addressing it now. In this online simulator, visitors get to make the hard choices themselves in order to stabilize the debt at 60% of GDP by 2018.

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April 2, 2010
CRFB Launches A Featured Charts Page!

CRFB would like to introduce our "Featured Charts" page where we will highlight important fiscal, economic, health care, and entitlement projection data in clear, interactive, and sharable graphs. CRFB will update these charts continuously as new data becomes available.

We encourage you to share any or all of these charts on your own websites and/or blogs. These charts will automatically update on your site even after you embed them. We hope this becomes a resource for anyone searching for important fiscal data.

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CRFB Projects

Peterson-Pew Commission on Budget Reform

The bipartisan Peterson-Pew Budget Reform Commission is made up of the country's most seasoned federal budget policymakers.  Over the coming months, it will release recommendations for reforming the budget and budget process.  The commission is supported by the Peter G. Peterson Foundation and The Pew Charitable Trusts.

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Stimulus.org

CRFB's Stimulus.org is a detailed database of government actions taken to deal with the U.S. financial and economic crisis.  Users can view the amount spent on various government programs as well as their deficit impact, and sort the database by policy area, the type of action, and the area of the economy impacted.

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