Blog
Welcome to our blog – The Bottom Line, where you’ll find up-to-date commentary and analysis on the most important news in the fiscal world. Below is a list of our blog posts.
Fisher, Gregg, and Weinstein: A Prescription for What's Ailing ACOs
Dr. Elliott Fisher, former Senator Judd Gregg (R-NH), and Dr. James Weinstein penned an op-ed published in Modern Healthcare discussing the need to...
Keith Hall Appointed as Next CBO Director
Speculation over the next director of the Congressional Budget Office ended today as the House and Senate Budget Committees announced that Keith Hall...
Lorenzen: Comprehensive Social Security Reform is Best to Address SSDI Insolvency
Ed Lorenzen, Senior Advisor for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, testified Wednesday in front of the Ways and Means Social Security...
The National Debt Must Be A Priority For The Next President
No matter how difficult the conversation, the national debt needs to be a top priority in the 2016 presidential election, and the next president needs...
Medicare Slowdown at Risk: The Imperative of Fixing ACOs
Today, Fix the Debt, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health, and Dartmouth College released a paper titled Medicare Slowdown at Risk: The Imperative of Fixing...
The Benefits of Medicare Benefit Redesign
In a little over one month, lawmakers will face their second significant Fiscal Speed Bump of the year when the one-year "doc fix" expires. At that...
Yellen: High Debt Could Undermine Flexibility
Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen delivered testimony on the Semiannual Monetary Policy report to the Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday. Not...
CRFB's Ed Lorenzen Testifies to Congress on SSDI
This afternoon, Ed Lorenzen, Senior Advisor for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, will testify in front of the Ways and Means...
Business Tax Reform Chapter Lays Out Administration's Thinking
The Council of Economic Advisers released its 2015 Economic Report of the President last week, discussing several recent economic developments and how...
Rudolph Penner: Dynamic Scoring Won't Be Perfect But it is Worth Doing
Rudolph Penner was the director of the Congressional Budget Office from 1983 to 1987, and he is an Institute Fellow at the Urban Institute and a...
CBO Closes the Book on the 2009 Stimulus
CBO unofficially closed the books on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA, or the 2009 stimulus), putting out its final report on the...
Jim Kolbe and Charlie Stenholm: Congress Can't Dodge Social Security Disability Insurance Trust Fund's Approaching Insolvency
Jim Kolbe and Charlie Stenholm are former members of Congress and members of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. Jim Kolbe (R-AZ) served...