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: Overtime Edition
Crunch Time – The Washington Redskins kept their playoff hopes alive with a come-from-behind victory in sudden-death overtime over the Baltimore...
What We Hope To See From the Fiscal Cliff Negotiations
In recent weeks, we've heard a lot about what each side is willing to do to avoid the fiscal cliff, but not nearly enough about how lawmakers intend...
GAO Releases Its Long Term Fiscal Outlook
The Government Accountability Office has updated its long-term budget outlook, showing once again that our budget deficit needs to seriously be...
Third Way on Why Low Interest Rates Won't Last
It may be true currently that although our national debt has been growing rapidly, interest rates are low. This fact has led some leading economic...
Steuerle: Revenue Proposals Not Enough
Urban Institute scholar and CRFB board member Gene Steuerle writes in his blog The Government We Deserve that the current revenue proposals from both...
MY VIEW: David Walker December 2012
Former U.S. Comptroller General David Walker writes in today's Politico that not all of the attention should be on the upcoming fiscal cliff - we also...
Taxpayers for Common Sense Lay Out Their Plan
Yesterday, Taxpayers for Common Sense sent a letter to President Obama, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV...
Alan Simpson Appears on the Daily Show
Fiscal Commission co-chair Alan Simpson appeared last night on "The Daily Show" to talk about the fiscal cliff and the national debt. And of course...
Line Items: December Doldrums Edition
Blue Christmas? – December can be a depressing time for many. Shorter days and the stress of the holidays affect many of us. Unfortunately, the news...
"Fixing the Debt: Reforming the Tax Code and Federal Health Spending" Recap
Yesterday, the Fix the Debt Campaign had a event with two roundtables bringing together many health policy and tax experts from across the political...
Fiscal Cliff Watch: Offers Begin to Emerge
UPDATE: Debt numbers in table have been slightly altered since the original posting. With now less than a month before the country would go over the...
Myth Buster: Other Plans are Much Worse Than the Fiscal Cliff
We've shown that there a plenty of reasons to not go over the fiscal cliff, including that it implements fiscal consolidation in an abrupt and blunt...