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.
How Long Will Low Interest Rates Last?
Are we really borrowing for free, and should we be taking advantage of it? Over the last few years, we’ve seen interest rates continue to fall to...
Goldman Sachs On the Fiscal Cliff
In a new investor note, Alec Philips of Goldman Sachs produced a useful new chart comparing three different scenarios for extending all the fiscal...
Going for the (Tax-Exempt) Gold
Even as lawmakers call for broadening the tax base, it seems like they keep proposing to narrow it. In the latest edition, there appears to be...
Bipartisan Compromise Is What's Needed
As Congress heads toward another partisan showdown over the fiscal cliff, it is important to remember that there are plans that have received...
Wells Fargo Strategist: Simpson Bowles Is Best Way Out of Fiscal Dilemma
A Wells Fargo market strategist joined the many business leaders supporting the Simpson-Bowles plan. Ron Florence, the Managing Director of Investment...
USA Today: Manner, Not Size, of Defense Sequester is the Concern
Lawmakers, policy experts, and affected industries are righly concerned about the sequester that will hit both defense and non-defense spending across...
Two Different Takes on Bending the Health Care Cost Curve
Today, The New England Journal of Medicine published an interesting contrast of health proposals from leading health policy experts representing the...
A Bipartisan Call To Debate the Debt
Today Campaign to Fix the Debt co-chairs Judd Gregg and Ed Rendell were joined by Purple Nation founders Michael Steele and Lanny Davis in a letter to...
Stephen Colbert Warns of Fiscal Cliff, "The Norquist"
Stephen Colbert covered the fiscal cliff and Grover Norquist in last night's Colbert Report. As usual Colbert is absolutely hilarious, but he also...
The Postal Service's Woes Continue
The United States Postal Service (USPS) is slated to default on a $5.5 billion dollar payment to the United States Treasury tonight at midnight...
Tax Extenders Spread the Budget Thin
The Senate Finance Committee will hold a mark-up of the Family and Business Tax Cut Certainty Act tomorrow at 10 am. The Act would retroactively...
OMB Starting to Prepare for the Sequester
Over the past few days, the Office of Management and Budget is getting to work preparing for the sequester hitting on January 2 of next year. OMB so...