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.
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FDIC Report Shows Improvement in Banks
The FDIC has just released its Quarterly Banking Profile (QBP) for the second quarter of 2010, showing improvement in bank balance sheets since last...
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Trichet Calls for ‘Ambitious’ Debt Reduction
While a great deal of attention has been given to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s address in Jackson Hole, Wyoming on Friday, the remarks...
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‘Line’ Items: Emmy Edition
From Red Carpet to Red Ink – The Emmy Awards last night celebrated the best in TV. In Washington, the plotlines are still being written for this fall...
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CRFB President Comments on Fiscal Policy in Jackson Hole
At the Federal Reserve meetings in Jackson Hole, CRFB President Maya MacGuineas, commented on fiscal policy and the need for a credible debt reduction...
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Presidential Panel Releases Tax Reform Report
Today the President’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board issued a report on tax reform options. The report should encourage and inform a vital...
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A Liberal Voice for Budget Reform
An op-ed in the New York Times yesterday featured Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) and his unorthodox approach to fiscal sustainability. Unlike many of his...
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CRFB Releases Its Realistic Baselines
Today, CRFB released a new policy paper showing a more probable fiscal outlook over the coming decade than what baseline budget projections would...
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S&P Warns U.S. About Credit Rating
Credit-rating agency Standard & Poor’s has a message to U.S. policymakers: We are watching you on the growing national debt. In an interview today in...
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Current Policy Extensions and Growth
If lawmakers extended various current policies, as opposed to letting them expire as they are set to under current law, what would happen to economic...
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Debate over the 2001/2003 Tax Cuts Heats Up
Debate over the 2001/2003 tax cuts is centered on its economic and budgetary aspects and effects. The President has proposed extending the tax cuts...
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CBO Reports on ARRA's Continued Impact
Yesterday, CBO released an update on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act’s (read our analysis of it here) impact on unemployment and job growth...
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Boehner Speaks on Deficits and Taxes
House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) gave an economic speech today that was billed as setting the policy table if Republicans gain control of...