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.
FY 2013 Budget is Settled...For Now
Late last week, the Senate passed a continuing resolution (CR) by a 62-30 vote to keep the government funded for the next six months with only a week...
149 Mayors Call for a Debt Deal
The United States Conference of Mayors has written a letter signed by 149 mayors across the country, a bipartisan collection including the likes of...
Erskine Bowles and Al Simpson: Debt Solution Must Be Bipartisan
In today's USA Today, Fix the Debt co-founders and Simpson-Bowles co-chairs Erskine Bowles and Al Simpson write that each party can't just have its...
Where is the Estate Tax Heading?
POLITICO reported earlier in the week that the estate tax debate is re-emerging as the expiration of the 2001/2003/2010 tax cuts looms. The estate tax...
Capital Gains and Tax Reform
Yesterday, the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee held a joint hearing on tax reform and the tax treatment of capital...
McCain Says Leave Everything on the Table
On Bloomberg Government's "Capitol Gains" show, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) endorsed at least the Simpson-Bowles outline as the starting point for...
Fiscal Fact Checker: Simpson-Bowles Raises Revenue
Today on Bloomberg, Edward Lazear -- the former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors under former President George W. Bush -- talked about the...
NPR Breaks Down the Fiscal Cliff
Today, NPR's Planet Money featured a helpful "three and a half graphic" breakdown of the fiscal cliff, relying on CRFB's figures. The piece breaks...
Concord Coalition Honors the Brave 38
Tonight, the Concord Coalition will present their annual Paul E. Tsongas Patriot Award to the Brave 38—the 22 Democratic and the 16 Republican...
Lessons from Canada
The United States is not the only country in the world who has, or is, facing fiscal problems. Our neighbor to the north faced some severe fiscal...
Quantifying the Effects of Uncertainty
We have seen many lawmakers and business leaders claim that the fiscal cliff is holding back the recovery and leading to higher unemployment, and in...
A Healthy Debate on the Medicare Age
A column in The Wall Street Journal today asks "Should the Eligibility Age for Medicare Be Raised?" Taking the " yes" side is CRFB president Maya...