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.
Fact-Checking the Final Debate
We did not live fact check the debate last night, but the debate did include a little bit of fiscal policy, which is not surprising considering the...
Event Recap: "Red Ink and Bad Blood: What Do Federal Budget Politics Mean for the Next President and You?"
At the Urban Institute this morning, a panel of budget heavyweights gathered to discuss the politics of the federal budget, focusing on Wall Street...
Line Items: Debate Edition
Up for Debate – Election 2012 is entering the final stretch and it is still up for grabs. The presidential contest has been marked more by missteps...
Why Debt Matters for National Security
Tonight is the last presidential debate with questions focused on foreign policy, but it would be a mistake to forget about debt. Our foreign policy...
Health Care Solutions that Work in the Real World
This morning, the National Coalition on Health Care held a forum in the Rayburn House Office Building entitled “Innovations in Health Care Delivery...
Actually, Raising the Retirement Age Is Not Regressive
Some commentators have suggested that raising the retirement age would be regressive given that lower income recipients tend to have a lower life...
Alarms Grow Louder as Fiscal Cliff Draws Closer
This blog has been cross-posted at FixTheDebt.org. It may not be as popular as Justin Bieber, but the fiscal cliff is getting plenty of notice as of...
Bipartisan Policy Center Releases a "Framework for a Grand Bargain"
With Congress in recess until after the elections, a plan to replace the fiscal cliff with a comprehensive debt deal will have to get done during the...
More Analysis of Gov. Romney's Deductions Cap
After we analyzed a part of it two weeks ago, Governor Mitt Romney's tax plan is back in the news, with a proposed deduction cap as the subject of a...
Gene Steuerle: Governing After Over-Promising
Urban Institute Fellow and CRFB board member Gene Steuerle laments the presidential candidates' overpromising this election season, particularly on...
Revisiting Our Live Fact-Checking of the Second Presidential Debate
As with the previous two debates (one presidential and one vice presidential), we will take an opportunity to go back and fact check some statements...
Coburn Releases the 2012 "Wastebook"
Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) yesterday released his " Wastebook" for 2012, a laundry list of government waste and inefficiency. Coburn finds 100 examples...