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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: Presidents Day Edition
Day of Leaders – Today we celebrate great American leaders with mattress sales and a day off (for some) from work. Congress left town for the whole...
Fiscal Commission Co-Chairs Express Hope
In an op-ed today on the Washington Post website, Erskine Bowles and Sen. Alan Simpson, co-chairs of the President’s National Commission on Fiscal...
Going to China, Before China Comes to Us
In a thoughtful Washington Post op-ed this morning, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) calls for leadership and shared sacrifice on the issue of deficit reduction...
MarketWatch: February 14-17, 2011
Markets so far this week have reacted to mixed news on the growth front in the US plus new concerns on inflation. As things start to wind up for the...
What Happens if the Budget's Assumptions Aren't So Rosy?
Three days after the release of the President's budget, our blog series continues to provide new analysis. In our detailed analysis of the President’s...
Happy Second Birthday ARRA!
While the budget world is caught up in the President's budget, it's time to celebrate an important birthday. On this day two years ago, President...
Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson Op-Ed
Today, Erskine Bowles and Sen. Alan Simpson, the co-chairs of the President’s National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, published an op...
Jon Stewart Balances the Budget
Last night on The Daily Show, Jon Stewart spent part of the episode talking about our favorite topic: how to fix the federal budget. Needless to say...
CRFB Analysis of the President's 2012 Budget
Continuing our analysis of the President's 2012 Budget, we have just published our latest paper that takes a look at the 2012 proposal in more detail...
House GOP Leadership Vows to Address Entitlement Spending
In their reaction to the President's FY 2012 budget proposal, the House Republican leadership has been very critical of the President's reluctance to...
Bill Frenzel: President's Budget FY2012
The President sent the country a Valentine Monday. But while the budget may have been concocted with love, in it there is only a touch of sweet and a...
Budget Process Reform in the President’s Budget
Welcome to our fourth installment in our FY 2012 budget blog series! In this one, we'll focus on any budget process proposals in the budget. Chapter...