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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.
Larry Fink: Washington Needs to Prove the Political System Still Works
As the dust begins to clear from this month's political battle over the debt ceiling and government shutdown, there have many reports of businesses...
The (Ongoing) Cost of the Government Shutdown
Now that the government shutdown and debt default threat are in the rearview mirror (for now), analysts have been taking time to survey the economic...
MY VIEW: Maya MacGuineas October 18 2013
The shutdown may be over and fears of a default adverted for now, but the reality remains that we still haven't made any progress on our debt problem...
Sequester Replacement Must be Fiscally Responsible
Recent reports have suggested the new budget conference committee may focus its attention of a deal to replace sequestration. A recent paper from the...
Short-Term Debt Ceiling Increases Can Lead to a Deal
With President Obama's signature on Thursday morning, the nation went from the brink of default to having a least a little elbow room on the debt...
Every Budget Put the Debt on a Downward Path…and This One Should Too
In additional to reopening the government and suspending the debt ceiling, last night, both the House and Senate agreed to go to Budget Conference...
The Tax Break-Down: Intangible Drilling Costs
This is the eleventh post in our blog series, The Tax Break-Down, which will analyze and review tax breaks under discussion as part of tax reform. Our...
Event Recap: Leon Panetta and Others Urge Action on Fiscal Issues
Yesterday, former Defense Secretary and CRFB board member Leon Panetta headlined a press conference at the National Press Club on the need for our...
Line Items: Ups and Downs Edition
Ending the Shutdown and Cranking Up the Debt Limit – It’s been an up-and-down past couple of weeks. The federal government has been shut down since...
Looks Like We Have a Deal
After a few weeks of government shutdown and a nerve-wracking lead-up to hitting the debt ceiling, the Senate leadership announced today it had come...
Marc Goldwein: Hard Choices Required to Address Looming Debt
The prolonged government shutdown and debt ceiling debate are a clear indication that our government is not functioning as it should. Furloughed...
Deficits are a First-Order Problem
Yesterday, Former Treasury Secretary and director of the National Economic Council Larry Summers argued that “budget deficits are now a second-order...