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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.
‘Line’ Items: Budget Day Edition
Big Day – Today is the big day in budget world. The White House released its fiscal year 2013 budget request. As you can imagine, CRFB has been busy...
No Offsets? No Deal
It's no secret that the conference committee tasked with finding solutions for the expiring 2-month fix for the payroll tax cut, unemployment...
Key Fiscal Metrics in the President's Budget
With President Obama's FY 2013 budget out in the open for review (see our initial reaction and analysis) we will now more closely examine many aspects...
CRFB's Reaction to the President's Budget
CRFB has just released its press release on the President's budget, including some basic analysis of the fiscal trajectory. The budget includes...
More Details on the President's Budget
In a post earlier this week detailing what's known about the President's budget, we discussed policies that were likely to appear on Monday. Now, the...
Bowles-Simpson's Best Endorsement Yet?
Just when you thought you've seen it all, here's Clint Eastwood on CNBC's "Squawkbox" this morning touting the Fiscal Commission plan. Given the large...
House Passes Modified Line Item Veto
Expedited rescission authority, a cousin of the line-item veto, has been considered countless times by Congress since the line item veto was declared...
Previewing the President's Budget
With less than a week before the President's budget comes out The Wall Street Journal has reported that it will be similar to the September submission...
Integrating the Budget Process and the Campaign
Harvard Law School professor Howell Jackson has an interesting idea in a Reuters op-ed: if fiscal issues are going to be extremely important in the...
Military Retirement Needs Reform
Military pensions for high-ranking officers are going up significantly, according to a USA Today article. Due to a change in the Defense Authorization...
The Road to Economic Growth
The McKinsey Global Institute recently released a report assessing the efforts of the world’s ten largest mature economies (United States, Japan...
'Line' Items: Baseline Edition
Baseline Instinct – The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) on Tuesday released its much-awaited 2012 Budget and Economic Outlook. According to CBO, if...