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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CRFB Releases "Health Care and the Federal Budget"
July 21 - Today the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget released " Health Care and the Federal Budget," which looks at the state of the U.S...
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Fed Chairman Bernanke Reports to Congress
July 21 - Federal Reserve Board Chairman presented his twice a year monetary policy testimony and the Fed's semi-annual monetary policy report to...
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CBO Estimates House Health Care Bill
July 18 - Yesterday, the CBO released preliminary cost estimates for the House Tri-Committee health care reform bill. According to the CBO, the bill...
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NEC Director Summers at Peterson Institute
July 17 - President Obama's chief economic adviser Lawrence Summers spoke today to the Peterson Institute for International Economics on "Rescuing and...
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Administration Urges Creation of Independent Medicare Advisory Council to Help Control Costs
July 17 - Today OMB Director Orszag urged Speaker Pelosi to support a Base Realignment And Closure-like (BRAC) process for reviewing Medicare changes...
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Cross Currents in the Economy and Financial System
July 16 - Cross currents in the U.S. economy are particularly evident today and illustrate why it is so difficult to figure out where the economy is...
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Costs and Offsets in the House Tri-Committee Health Care Reform Plan
July 14 - Earlier today, House Democrats released a draft of the America's Affordable Health Choices Act , along with a series of summary documents...
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Blue Chip Consensus: Weak Recovery Underway
July 12 - Recent consumer confidence, spending and labor market data have raised questions about whether the economy is losing momentum, and these...
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Stimulus shows up in consumer spending
June 26 - Can we measure the effects of the economic stimulus legislation? We are just starting to see effects show up in U.S. economic data. The...
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Fed Modifies Crisis Liquidity Facilities
The Fed announced today that it would extend and modify many of its liquidity programs.
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Financial Sector Overhaul Plan
June 17 - Today the White House released its plan to overhaul the financial sector. If adopted, will the proposals prevent another financial crisis...
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The President's Health Care Offsets
June 13 - In this morning's weekly radio address, President Obama again made the case for health care reform, arguing that it is "essential to...