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.
Treasury Set to Exit GM By Year's End
The New York Times is reporting that the Treasury Department will sell its remaining shares in General Motors, bringing to an end its five-year...
CBO Finds Defense Plan's Cost Will Likely Exceed Defense Budget
Every year, CBO analyzes the Department of Defense's Future Years Defense Program (FYDP), most recently done last March. As has been the case over the...
Looking Beyond the Ten-Year Window
Our paper released yesterday detailed how our long term debt problems are far from solved, making clear the unsustainability of federal debt over the...
CBO Predicts the "X Date"
Given the nature of debt ceiling politics lately, estimating when the federal government will start defaulting on obligations has become a common...
Baucus Releases Tax Administration Draft
This week, Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) is moving forward with tax reform, releasing three discussion drafts. Yesterday, he released a...
CRFB Shows that Long-Term Problems Remain Very Far From Solved
Today, CRFB has released a new paper, Our Long-Term Debt Problems Are Very Far from Solved, which shows while recent improvements may have benefited...
Baucus Releases International Tax Reform Draft
This week, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) is moving ahead with tax reform, starting with the release of discussion drafts on...
Line Items: Gettysburg Address Edition
Historic Moment – On this day 150 years ago, President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address dedicating the new national cemetery at the...
Tax Extenders: PAYGO or No Go
The year is rapidly coming to a close, with only 11 days left that the House plans to be in session. Before the year's end, Congress is supposed to...
My View: Judd Gregg November 2013
Though the government shutdown ended a little over a month ago, its effects still linger on. In an editorial published today in The Hill, former...
The King Plan: A Window Into a "Go Medium" Deal
In addition to CBO director Doug Elmendorf's testimony, yesterday's budget conference committee meeting produced another notable moment: a proposal...
CBO Director Examines Drivers of Health Care Spending Growth
As the conferees met yesterday, any doubt that we can afford to wait on the long-term debt problem should have quickly been erased after CBO Director...