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.
What We'd Like to Hear in the President's Speech Tonight
1. Health reform is first and foremost about controlling costs – There are three major problems people would like to solve through health reform: cost...
Ideas for Tax Reform
Recently, Tax Analysts released Toward Tax Reform: Recommendations for President Obama's Task Force , a collection of essays by 32 prominent tax...
Another $95 Billion of Budgeting Through Footnotes
Last week, we wrote about $85 billion worth of stimulus tax cuts which the Obama administration assumed as permanant in their baseline so that they...
Welcome to The Bottom Line!
CRFB.org has just completed a major web redesign! We encourage you to explore the entire site, along with a whole new USBudgetWatch.org and Stimulus...
CBO Projects Social Security Deficits in 2010
CBO recently published new projections for the revenues and outlays for Social Security (kudos to Andrew Biggs for pointing this out). The updated...
Budgeting through Footnotes
This morning, Lori Montgomery of the Washington Post reported on the decision of the Obama administration to incorporate $85 billion in tax breaks...
Constructing a "Current Policy" Baseline
Today, US Budget Watch released The Cost of “Current Policy”. In this analysis, we show that, while deeply troublesome, CBO’s $7.1 trillion ten-year...
The Ups and Downs of Buttressing the Economy
Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal posted an article discussing the FDIC’s soon-to-be urgent need to draw money from its $500 billion Treasury line of...
Pandering to Seniors
Responsible budgeting is always challenging – but it is particularly so when the discussion centers on certain “third rail" issues like seniors...
Wash Post and FT Call For Medium-Term Deficit Reduction Plan
Recently, both the Washington Post ( Bad-News Budget) and the Financial Times ( Fiscal Challenges for a Recovering US) have written excellent...
So What Will the Deficit Really Be?
Last week, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its updated Budget and Economic Outlook and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)...
NewsHour Budget Segment
MacGuineas, Guha, and Wessel on the NEWSHOUR, on the reappointment of Bernanke and the new budget numbers.