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Really they are. With the 2001/2003 tax cuts set to expire in five months, the topic is coming up with increasing frequency. Unlike with the estate...

Appearing at his old alma mater, the Brookings Institution, Wednesday, Peter Orszag bid adieu to public sector employment in his final public...

This morning, CRFB president Maya MacGuineas will testify before the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, an executive committee...

"The current fiscal path of the federal government is unsustainable." This sentence begins any discussion about the future of US fiscal policy and CBO...

The OMB's Mid-Session Review (MSR) came out late on Friday afternoon with no fanfare from the Administration (though we did put out a paper yesterday)...

If You Can’t Stand the Heat… – Washington has been experiencing a heat wave, but it can’t all be blamed on the friction between the two parties...

The OMB released its Mid-Session Review today (see our press release here), showing slightly improved deficit numbers for this year, but still an...

In an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal this Wednesday, Martin Feldstein discusses the pivotal role of tax expenditures in increasing the federal...

As of mid-morning Friday, U.S. and overseas markets await the results of the stress tests conducted on European banks, to be released at noon. Based...

At a time when Social Security is increasingly getting lawmakers' attention for the possibility of reform, raising the retirement age is starting to...

Today, President Obama signed the Improper Payment Elimination and Recovery Act, hoping to make a dent in wasteful spending. Improper payments are...

There have been a lot of numbers thrown around with regards budget resolutions, deeming resolutions, and discretionary spending limits. To keep it...