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.
MacGuineas: Make Candidates Debate the Debt
Today, we are launching DebateTheDebt.org, a site where you can sign a petition calling for a real debate devoted to the debt. In that vein, CRFB...
How Is the House Replacing the Sequester?
Update: CBO has posted scores for the Energy and Commerce and Oversight bills. They would save $113 billion and $83.3 billion, respectively, over ten...
CRFB’s Simulator: A Tool for Fixing the Budget
To hear the news coming out of Washington, finding the route to fiscal stability can be pretty hopeless as our leaders all steer in different...
Chairman Bernanke Addresses the Fiscal Cliff
Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke held a press conference yesterday following the conclusion of the Federal Open Market Committee meeting...
Jim Kolbe and Charlie Stenholm: Congress Cannot Afford to Punt on Social Security
Today, two of CRFB's co-chairman, former Representatives Charlie Stenholm (D-TX) and Jim Kolbe (R-AZ), penned an op-ed in The Hill, saying that the...
Comparing the House and Senate Agriculture Changes
Recently, both the House and Senate proposed cuts to the Department of Agriculture. Though the proposals are fairly similar in magnitude, they achieve...
A Hypothetical Debate on Social Security
A new article from Jeffrey Brown of Forbes succinctly captures much of the debate around the findings of the Social Security Trustees report. In many...
CRFB Co-Chairman Bill Frenzel Calls for Debt Debate
Bill Frenzel, CRFB co-chairman and former ranking member on the House Budget Committee, made a convincing case for a Presidential debate on specific...
The Medicare Trustees Report
While we have already broken down the Social Security Trustees report, the Trustees have also produced a report for Medicare. Considering that health...
Line Items: Play Off Edition
Play On – The NHL playoffs are under way. The Red Wings were clipped, the Sharks sunk, the Canucks cannot, and the Penguins were iced. In Washington...
CRFB Breaks Down the Social Security Trustees Report
With the release of Trustees reports on Social Security and Medicare, CRFB has released its analysis of the Social Security report, breaking down the...
Any Minute Now....
The Social Security and Medicare Trustees have signed off on their respective reports on the financial projections for the two programs, though we...