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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Fiscal Responsibility Questions For The Election
Considering our nation's debt situation, it is more important that ever to ensure that those seeking office have a plan to take on the issue. It's why...
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U.S. Budget Watch: How Much Are Medicare Benefits "Paid For"?
As the presidential campaigns have turned their attention to Medicare (which we analyzed two weeks ago), each one frames the issue as protecting...
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Governor Jeb Bush Supports Simpson-Bowles
Former Governor Jeb Bush (R-FL) declared his support for Simpson-Bowles in a recent interview with the Tampa Bay Times, in order to begin taking on...
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Will We Get Another 1986 Soon?
Elaine Kamarck and James Pinkerton, co-chairs of The RATE Coalition, a bipartisan group dedicated to promote tax reform, write in today's The Hill...
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A Mutual Non-Aggression Pact for the Campaigns?
A recent editorial from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch argues for what they call a "mutual non-aggression pact on spending and deficits." In their view...
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Bowles, Simpson, and MacGuineas Discuss Fiscal Cliff
Over the past couple of days, CRFB President Maya MacGuineas and CRFB Board Members former Senator Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles have made the...
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CBO Projects a Recession -- But How Deep?
We've warned many times before that going off the fiscal cliff would throw the economy into a double dip recession. With CBO's updated budget and...
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CRFB's Jason Peuquet on the Republican Candidates' Plans
On New America's weekly podcast series The Sidebar, CRFB Research Director Jason Peuquet added some analysis on Representative Paul Ryan's (R-WI)...
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Stebbins Touts the Campaign to Fix the Debt
In a recent op-ed in the Miami Herald, World Fuel Services Corporation chairman Paul Stebbins touted his membership in the Campaign to Fix the Debt...
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What Else is New? Changes in CBO's Baseline
Naturally, when a new budget projection is released, as CBO's updated baseline was yesterday, a good question to ask is: what happened? It is...
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Uncertainty Stemming From Our Political Problems
A few days ago, CNBC highlighted a client note by Goldman Sachs strategist David Kostin about the fiscal cliff. In short, he advises them to be wary...
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CRFB's Newest Realistic Baseline
With the release of CBO's updated budget and economic outlook, we at CRFB have the opportunity to update our Realistic baseline. Recall that our...