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.
Bernanke Once Again Warns Congress on the Fiscal Cliff
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke addressed Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday and the House Finance Committee yesterday with more warnings about...
Children and the Federal Budget
The Urban Institute held an event today (video here) on children and the federal budget, which involved CRFB Senior Policy Director Marc Goldwein and...
Fix the Debt Event Recap
Yesterday, the Campaign to Fix the Debt officially launched with a press conference at that National Press Club. The Campaign is intended to drum up...
Appropriations Update: The Parallel Track of the Process
Since our last Appropriations Update last month, there has not been much action on appropriations bills. On the House side, the full House has passed...
Spotlight on the States: Structural Challenges
The State Budget Crisis Task Force -- a group of budget experts including the likes of former CBO and OMB director Alice Rivlin, former Federal...
The Launch of the Campaign to Fix the Debt
Update: C-SPAN has uploaded a video of the event. You can view it here. Today, CRFB is helping to launch the Campaign to Fix the Debt at the National...
Options for Reforming Disability Insurance
We have said before that the Disability Insurance (DI) portion of Social Security is too often overlooked, even though it has a more immediate funding...
CRFB Dives Deeper Into the Fiscal Cliff
After the report we released in March, the topic of the fiscal cliff has risen in prominence as CBO and others have attempted to estimate the size of...
Judd Gregg: Five keys to a better budget
A line-by-line budget submission simply allows Congress to distract everyone, including itself, into debates over high visibility-but-small return...
How Does the Fiscal Cliff Compare to Past Deficit Reduction in the U.S.?
In evaluating the fiscal cliff, it is interesting to see how it compares to past cases where the federal government has rapidly reduced deficits. The...
Fiscal Fact Checker: What Caused the Swing From Surplus to Deficit?
The Hill points to a press release by Senator (and former OMB director) Rob Portman (R-OH) that claims the upper-income portion of the 2001/2003/2010...
Bowles and Simpson Announce Campaign to Fix the Debt on CNBC's Squawkbox
Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson appeared alongside Warren Buffett on CNBC's Squawk Box this morning, discussing the need for Congress to pass a...