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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.
Lawmakers Reach Across the Aisle, and Houses, to Support Go Big
A group of legislators today staged a rare bipartisan, bicameral show of strength to support the Super Committee and encourage it to “ Go Big.” At a...
Mark Zandi Joins Announcement Effect Club
Yesterday, Moody's Analytics Chief Economist Mark Zandi penned an article in Politico about the various possible outcomes of the looming Super...
A Final Bipartisan, Bicameral Push to Go Big
Today at 10:30 am ET, Republican and Democratic lawmakers from both the House and the Senate will be holding a press conference pushing Go Big in a...
Let's Add on Instead of Claw-Back
You might think we're about to talk about Social Security reform or how to reform the Sustainable Growth Rate. But what we're actually talking about...
‘Line’ Items: Go (Big) Time Edition
Time is Short and We Need to Go Long – The clock is ticking on the Super Committee as its November 23 deadline is now just a week and a half away. It...
Again on the Facts of the Chained CPI
It's amazing how sequences in Washington can repeat themselves. Back in June, when switching to the chained CPI was talked about as an option in the...
Revisiting the Feldstein-Feenberg-MacGuineas Cap
Both parties are studying cuts in tax expenditures (TEs) as a means to reduce the federal deficit. Super Committee Republicans have offered a proposal...
Democrats and Republicans Making Efforts Toward a Deal
This week has seen the emergence of another set of broad outlines from the Democrats and Republicans on the Super Committee, in a process that is...
CRFB's Go Big Resource Page for Citizens
How does an average American get more involved in the Go Big effort? Today, CRFB posted a Citizens' Resource Page to answer just that. As you can...
Congressman Chaffetz Releases Social Security Plan
Congressman Chaffetz (R-UT) has just proposed a Social Security reform plan to restore solvency to the program. The plan relies on reforms to the...
Finding $600 Billion in Health Savings, Continued...
We hope all of our beloved and faithful readers have been following the conversation developing between us and some other experts, notably at Center...
My View: David Stockman and Andy Stern
Today, CRFB board member and former budget director for Ronald Reagan, David Stockman, along with the former head of SEIU, Andy Stern, wrote an op-ed...