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.
Line Items: Cicada Edition
Lots of Buzz – The Cicadas are coming back. After maturing underground for 17 years, billions of the insects from the Brood II cohort are beginning to...
The Challenge of Corporate Tax Reform
Tax reform has many moving pieces to it and many questions that need to be answered. One question is whether the two pieces should be handled together...
Event Recap: The 2013 Fiscal Summit
Today, the Peter G. Peterson Foundation held its third annual Fiscal Summit, assembling a number of prominent current and former lawmakers, experts...
JCT Hands Out Programs for the Tax Reform Debate
As work on tax reform gets going, the Joint Committee on Taxation has provided a 568-page report laying out just about everything you need to know...
The 2013 Peterson Fiscal Summit
Today, the Peter G. Peterson Foundation is holding its 2013 Fiscal Summit, bringing together a number of prominent speakers to talk about our fiscal...
Deficit Reduction Doesn't Need to Be Front-loaded
Regular readers of The Bottom Line are probably familiar with our goal of putting the debt on a downward path as a share of the economy over the long...
A Budgetary Look at Immigration Reform
As lawmakers gear up to debate immigration reform in the weeks and months ahead, it will likely coincide with the ongoing budget debate in Washington...
On Reinhart and Rogoff
Harvard professors Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff’s (R&R) 2010 paper, Growth in a Time of Debt, has been all over the news in the past few weeks...
The Real Corporate Tax Game
A recent article in The New York Times entitled " The Corporate Tax Game" details the tricky politics of corporate tax reform, especially when it...
Upton and Hatch's Blueprint to Reform Medicaid
This week, Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, and Rep. Fred Upton, Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce...
Expanding Principal Writedowns to Fannie and Freddie
Sometimes, the timing of things can really work out in Washington. Yesterday, President Obama nominated Rep. Mel Watt (D-NC) to be the head of the...
A Roundup of Our Analysis on the Bipartisan Path Forward
Over the last two weeks, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget has been analyzing the new proposal from former Fiscal Commission co-chairs...