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Update: The House has passed the reconciliation and replacement bills by a 218-199 vote. We have already talked about the House reconciliation bills...

Last month, Social Security and Medicare Trustee Chuck Blahous sparked a controversy by saying that the Affordable Care Act would add to the deficit...

Impasses and showdowns have become the norm over the past few years, and it is turning out to be no different with student loans. For background, in...

We all know about the fiscal cliff coming at year's end, and we all know policy makers will have to find a way out. Neither allowing the country to...

A Galaxy Far, Far Away – Friday was Stars Wars Day, the annual observance of the popular movie series that plays on the date, as in May the Fourth (be...

This week’s The Economist offers another analysis of the end-of-year fiscal cliff of tax increases and spending cuts that the United States faces...

The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) doesn't make recommendations for, or against, any fiscal plan, but that doesn't mean they can't...

Today in The Hill, former Senator Judd Gregg (R-NH) penned an Op-Ed analyzing the French elections (where France yesterday elected Mr. Hollande of the...

At an event at the University of Rochester's Simon School yesterday, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon made a direct call for the Simpson-Bowles...

Last week’s report from the Social Security Trustees laid out the challenges facing the vital program. The largest federal program began running...

As the topic of tax reform will be heating up this year, five analysts from the Brookings Institution's Hamilton Project have released a paper called...

David Lawder of Reuters has featured our recently updated budget simulator in an excellent piece about the challenges of cutting the debt. The...