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.
Moody's Considers Downgrading U.S. Over Debt Limit Stalemate
Update 7/15: S&P has joined Moody's in issuing new warnings to the United States. Putting the country on "negative watch," S&P warned that it could...
Debt Deal Talks Heading into the 11th Hour
The budget and debt-limit negotiations are approaching the 11th hour. Congressional leaders and the President continue negotiating over a deficit...
Bipartisan Support for the Chained CPI
Talk of switching to the chained CPI for all inflation indexed elements of the federal budget has continued gaining much attention in the past few...
Business Leaders Urge Policymakers to Raise the Debt Ceiling and Enact Long-Term Fiscal Plan
Yesterday, nearly five hundred business leaders and organizations sent a letter to the President and members of Congress joining the chorus of other...
Details Emerging About Sen. Conrad's Budget
It's the budget that's been stuck in limbo. Sen. Kent Conrad (D-ND), chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, has reportedly been working on a Senate...
‘Line’ Items: Goals Edition
Clutch Goals -- The U.S. Women’s Soccer team scored an improbable victory over Brazil on Sunday in the Women’s World Cup, overcoming a scoring and...
CNN MONEY EXCLUSIVE: Go Big on the Debt Ceiling
In her latest commentary for CNN Money, CRFB president Maya MacGuineas urges Washington lawmakers to go big on the debt ceiling. She also lays out...
The Facts on the Chained CPI
Coverage of the so-called "chained CPI" has been heating up recently, due to rumors that it might be included in the latest round of debt negotiations...
Sen. Warner: "We Cannot Wait Much Longer"
In an op-ed today in The Washington Post, Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) pleads with lawmakers to act quickly to raise the debt limit and to seek a...
President Seeking $4 Trillion, Comprehensive Plan
CRFB has been calling pretty much continuously for a debt reduction package which puts everything on the table, addresses entitlement spending growth...
Senator Rockefeller Offers Up Revenue Plan
While much of the conversation on tax increases in a debt ceiling budget deal has seemed to focus on corporate jet owners, Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV)...