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Today, The National Journal debuted its Economic Insiders Poll, a "periodic poll of veteran experts on the policy and political dynamics of key issues...

Today, our friends over at the Concord Coalition wrote an interesting blog in which they pulled out the key fiscal dates from GAO's re-issued long...

In Bloom – Spring is officially here, though the weather would have one think otherwise. Frigid temperatures and even a little snow in the Washington...

In Sunday's New York Times, Gregory Mankiw, a Harvard economics professor and former chair of the Council of Economic Advisors (CEA) under President...

There have been a number of pieces lately that have offered perspectives on how to view the recent debate surrounding the Social Security program. Is...

In this installment of our Spotlight on the States blog series, focused on Minnesota, we take a slightly different look at the state's fiscal...

Meet Kate, a fictitious 41 year old Generation X member. How will our leaders’ fiscal choices affect her life? In our fifth and final installment of...

Safe haven worries that had dominated trading last week have eased so far this week – and investor appetite for greater risk rose a little. The yield...

Meet John, a 56-year-old fictional Baby Boomer "profiled" in the fourth installment of our "Meet the Generations" blog series, inspired by our latest...

In light of the recent debates over Social Security, CRFB's latest paper attempts to clarify how the program relates to the federal budget and budget...

A bipartisan group of ten former chairs of the President's Council of Economic Advisors (CEA) published an op-ed in Politico today stating that the...

Once again, policy-watchers and policymakers are fired up over whether Social Security needs to be fixed anytime soon. Some resort to pretty arcane...