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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Welcome to The Bottom Line!
CRFB.org has just completed a major web redesign! We encourage you to explore the entire site, along with a whole new USBudgetWatch.org and Stimulus...
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CBO Projects Social Security Deficits in 2010
CBO recently published new projections for the revenues and outlays for Social Security (kudos to Andrew Biggs for pointing this out). The updated...
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Budgeting through Footnotes
This morning, Lori Montgomery of the Washington Post reported on the decision of the Obama administration to incorporate $85 billion in tax breaks...
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Constructing a "Current Policy" Baseline
Today, US Budget Watch released The Cost of “Current Policy”. In this analysis, we show that, while deeply troublesome, CBO’s $7.1 trillion ten-year...
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The Ups and Downs of Buttressing the Economy
Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal posted an article discussing the FDIC’s soon-to-be urgent need to draw money from its $500 billion Treasury line of...
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Pandering to Seniors
Responsible budgeting is always challenging – but it is particularly so when the discussion centers on certain “third rail" issues like seniors...
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Wash Post and FT Call For Medium-Term Deficit Reduction Plan
Recently, both the Washington Post ( Bad-News Budget) and the Financial Times ( Fiscal Challenges for a Recovering US) have written excellent...
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So What Will the Deficit Really Be?
Last week, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its updated Budget and Economic Outlook and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)...
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NewsHour Budget Segment
MacGuineas, Guha, and Wessel on the NEWSHOUR, on the reappointment of Bernanke and the new budget numbers.
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Put Another $2 Trillion on the Tab
CRFB released this report on OMB's Mid-Session Review. (We will soon release a more detailed analysis.) CBO provides a comparison chart between OMB...
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OMB's Mid-Session Review Will Show Greater Ten-Year Deficits
Late Friday the White House conceded that ten-year deficits would total around $9 trillion, according to their estimates. This is $2 trillion greater...
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Bernanke at Jackson Hole
The Fed is holding its annual summer retreat at Jackson Hole, Wyoming, which features Fed officials and outside experts discussing the critical issues...