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.
Another Blue-Ribbon Group Weighs In
The drumbeat for action to reduce our long-term debt continues. Today the Debt Reduction Task Force of the Bipartisan Policy Center issued its...
Bill Frenzel on Bowles-Simpson
CRFB co-chair Bill Frenzel says "three cheers for Bowles and Simpson" as he and fellow Brookings experts talk about reducing the federal budget...
Earmarks Are Just a Start
Earmarks have long been a favorite bogeyman here in D.C. – as examples of wasteful government spending and back-door deal making. The recent election...
Lively Debate Ahead on Estate Tax
Most of the attention in the debate to extend the 2001/2003 tax cuts has centered around the income tax, but a closer inspection of the provisions...
Gene Steuerle in the Ripon Forum
CRFB board member Gene Steuerle has a piece in the Ripon Forum on the need for deficit reduction and budget process reform. He mentions the new...
Experts Get Specific for New York Times
Yesterday, in the pages of the New York Times, CRFB President Maya MacGuineas joined 15 other experts in proposing how one might begin to cut the...
CNN Money Exclusive: Stop Whining About Bowles-Simpson. Let's Make it Better.
In her latest commentary on CNN Money, CRFB President Maya MacGuineas challenges critics of the Bowles-Simpson deficit reduction plan and offers ideas...
My View: Carol Cox Wait
Hip, Hip, Hooray! The Chairmen of the President’s Deficit Reduction Commission finally have shed some light on the kinds of choices that will be...
The New York Times's Own Budget Simulator
The New York Times released their own " budget puzzle" over the weekend, allowing users to try to eliminate the primary deficit (the deficit excluding...
Welcome Back Congress -- to the Latest Appropriations Mess
Congress returns this week for a lame-duck session during which members will face a huge mess—providing money to keep the lights on in the federal...
We Can All Throw Stones, But Let's Throw Ideas Too
We at CRFB have had our morning coffee and are trying to find ways to make the Fiscal Commission’s co-chair proposal better. CRFB president Maya...
‘Line’ Items: Lame Duck Edition
Roast (Lame) Duck is Served – The lame duck session of Congress begins today, but it is already being panned as unlikely to be very productive. As we...