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.
Looking Back on President's Day
As we celebrate President’s Day, here is a look at our two presidents of the day, Washington and Lincoln, and some of their experiences with debt...
‘Line’ Items: Commissions, Summits, Caps and Dogs
Commission Coming – The White House says President Obama will create a fiscal commission by executive order within days. Meanwhile, Republicans still...
Weekend Editorial Roundup
Here are the highlights from this weekend’s editorials on fiscal and budget policy: The New York Times criticized Republican healthcare reform...
Budget Reform Proposals in the President's FY 2011 Budget
Although our initial analysis of the President's Budget focused on his ten-year budget plan, the Budget itself includes much, much more. Nestled in...
Snowpocalypse Doesn’t Stop Announcement Effect Club from Growing
Fearless economists braved the Washington snow this week to walk through the doors of the Announcement Effect Club via their testimony before the...
Senate To Consider Scaled-Down Jobs Bill
The Senate is likely to turn to a tightly focused jobs bill when it returns from the President's Day break next week. The bill, a much-scaled down...
Stimulus Proposals in the President's Budget
In the budget released last week, the President outlined his vision for additional economic stimulus. Included in his proposal was $76 billion over 11...
Experts to Congress: We Need Fiscal Goals
As D.C. slowly emerged from under the white blanket of the blizzard, discussion turned today to how the U.S. can rise out of a sea of red ink. Three...
Does the President's Budget Increase the Deficit or Reduce It? (The Answer Depends on Your Baseline)
According to Obama Administraton, the President's FY2011 reduces the ten-year deficit by $2.1 trillion; or $1.2 trillion if the savings from the Iraq...
If You Think Snowmageddon is Bad, Blizzard of Debt Will be Worse
Experts concerned about the nation’s fiscal and economic outlook braved the snow yesterday to participate in a Senate Budget Committee hearing on...
Blue Dogs Seek to Take a Bite Out of Spending
The Blue Dog Democrats, fresh off of attaining long-sought statutory PAYGO rules, are now setting their sights on capping discretionary spending. They...